A slightly twisted comedy.
After being thrown away from home, pregnant high school dropout Maria meets Matthew, a highly educated and extremely moody electronics repairman. The two begin an unusual romance built on their sense of mutual admiration and trust.
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Prestige, contemporary, intimate and contemplative.
- unpretentiousprestige
- contemporarynostalgic
- intimateepic
- contemplativerelentless
- sparerichly built
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- Filipe Manuel Netoon TMDB · Aug 20238/10
**A great film that deserves to be reviewed and revisited today.** I've said many times that a movie always needs a good story, and this movie is an example of that. The strength of the plot, the way in which it captures our attention and curiosity, the way in which the characters were created, developed, and are able to win our sympathy, everything is combined with an excellent work by the actors and direction. This film seems to me a little forgotten nowadays, but it deserves a review for its enormous quality. In fact, the whole story revolves around trust in others and in ourselves. Maria, a young teenager who seems determined to stand out in an extravagant way, has just become pregnant with a boyfriend who really doesn't like her and only cares about his personal priorities. Abandoned by him, she causes her father's death unintentionally, after a hard fight, and ends up taking refuge in friendship with the problematic Matthew, another teenager, very mature and formal for his age, owner of an above-average culture, which has already had several problems with the law for not conforming to the world around them, where the average reigns and TV exerts an excessive influence on peop
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Cast
- Adrienne ShellyMaria Coughlin
- Martin DonovanMatthew Slaughter
- Rebecca NelsonJean Coughlin (as Merritt Nelson)
- John MacKayJim Slaughter
- Edie FalcoPeg Coughlin
- Gary SauerAnthony
- Matt MalloyEd
- Suzanne CostollosRachel
- Jeff HowardRobert
- Karen SillasNurse Paine
Crew
- Hal HartleyDirector
- Hal HartleyWriter
- Michael SpillerDirector of Photography
- Phillip ReedOriginal Music Composer
- Nick GomezEditor
- Bruce WeissProducer
- Hal HartleyProducer
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