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Studio: Touchstone Pictures
Release Date: Jun 29, 2001
Running Time: 99 mins. (V)
Country Of Origin: United States
synopsis
Nicole Oakley, the troubled daughter of a wealthy congressman, attends public school in the upscale community of Pacific Palisades. As an act of defiance, she makes a play for the attentions of Carlos Nunez, a determined, straight-A student who endures a two-hour bus ride each morning from east LA to attend the more prestigious school in Nicole's exclusive suburb. While her friends and family profess doom for their relationship, her rebellious flirtation soon develops into true romance. However, Nicole's self-destructive tendencies threaten Carlos' ambitions, leading to an emotional and climactic confrontation that attests to the power and intensity of first love, and reveals how, in coming together, two young but damaged souls can heal one another.
cast + crew
Director
Nicole Oakley
Carlos Nunez
Tom Oakley
Luis
Eddie
Victor
Hector
Mrs Nunez
Courtney Oakley
Maddy
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reviews
June 21, 2001
From the lowercase lettering of the title to the deadly familiarity of the plot, there is much to grate on your nerves in this TV Afterschool Special trying to pass as a real movie. But Kirsten Dunst deserves an untarnished gold star for her touching performance as Nicole, the teen daughter of Tom Oakley (Bruce Davison), a California congressman who, after the suicide of his wife (Nicole's mother), has remarried, started a new family and kept Nicole at arm's length. Which is hard to do, since…
Not only is this movie slow and draggy, we're subjected to unbelievable and way-too-long scenes that would never ever happen. Like, Malibu blondies Nicole (sans bra) and her half-dressed friend (with the bra but sans the shirt) stop off at an open-air market in East L.A. after a nighttime football game and wind up dirty dancing with the men hanging out by the taco stand. Are you kidding? There could be so much more done with the differences between the teens' cultures and their families'…
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