Toe to Toe

2009

1h 44m

Drama

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62%

13 Reviews

Tomatometer

51%

250+ Ratings

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Senior lacrosse players, a privileged white girl and a poor black girl, have an edgy friendship.

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Alyx Vesey

Bitch Media

It is a well-intended, complicated film we should be debating and encouraging similar projects in production. Welcome to the canon.

Jan 7, 2021

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Ann Hornaday

Washington Post

Toe to Toe deserves credit for delving into the rich dynamics of interracial friendship and teenaged social tectonics. And it features some terrific acting.

Rated: 2.5/4

Apr 2, 2010

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Robert Abele

Los Angeles Times

For good stretches, Toe to Toe has an engaging frankness about youthful liberty as both a weighty armor and a dangerously alluring escape hatch.

Rated: 3/5

Mar 12, 2010

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Brian Orndorf

BrianOrndorf.com

A demented, amateurish after school special, Toe to Toe is only useful as a means to observe a first-rate actress in the making. The rest is pure rubbish, delivered with all the subtlety of an air horn.

Rated: D-

Feb 25, 2010

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Marshall Fine

Hollywood & Fine

Toe to Toe features two exceptionally layered performances at its center, as well as ideas that don't sort themselves out in neat and easily summarized fashion.

Feb 25, 2010

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Kam Williams

NewsBlaze

Hell hath no fury like a sister scorned, especially for a wigger!

Rated: 4/4

Feb 23, 2010

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Evan T

The acting was really good in this film. I wish they could have showed the main character in college at the end.

Rated 3.5 out of 5 stars

11/05/23

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Audience Member

Excellent coming of age of movie. I feel about twenty five years too old watching this. LOL. But I enjoyed it.

Rated 3.5 out of 5 stars

02/25/23

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Audience Member

I loved this movie, watched it tonight. And, I will watch it again !

Rated 5 out of 5 stars

02/10/23

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Audience Member

i love this movie <3

Rated 5 out of 5 stars

02/19/23

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Audience Member

Emily Abt's study of the lifestyles of two contrasting high school girls doesn't always ring true, but deserves an A for effort.

Rated 2.5 out of 5 stars

02/27/23

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Audience Member

When reading the synopsis of this movie, I assumed it was going to be a rehashing of recent movies with a hard working black student trying to fit in, and over privileged white student who squanders their opportunities, how they become friends and learn about each other...and on the surface it kinda is that. But after watching the movie it goes much deeper into the spirits that drive these two girls to do what they do. True Tosha is a hardworking scholarship student at a prep school, but she is also pushed and driven by an overbearing grandmother, who treats her other siblings like trash. And Jessie is a rich kid, but she is essentially she's a latch key kid, because her mother is always overseas. There are times in this movie when you smile, cringe, and cheer... and those are usually good ingredients to a good movie.

Rated 4.5 out of 5 stars

02/27/23

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Emily Abt

Director

Louisa Krause

Jesse

Sonequa Martin-Green

Tosha

Hina Abdullah

Mina

Dionne Audain

Brenda

Erica Chamblee

Kendra

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Synopsis

Senior lacrosse players, a privileged white girl and a poor black girl, have an edgy friendship.

Director: Emily Abt
Screenwriter: Emily Abt
Genre: Drama
Original Language: English
Release Date (Streaming): Feb 22, 2017
Box Office (Gross USA): $21.3K
Runtime: 1h 44m

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