Synopsis
The neglected child of parents living on a commune, Victor is helpless to resist the atmosphere of sex and drugs that permeates his world, but he's smart enough to know that if he is going to survive, he has to get out.
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Cast
- Joni BarthRachel's Mom
- Kirsten BermanJenny
- Mark Boone JuniorVictor's Father
- Joseph CastanonLittle Mackie
- Richard EdsonPete
- Andie MacDowellVictor's Mother
- Jesse PlemonsChad
- Hanna HallBecky
- AnnaLisa EricksonNancy
- Shiloh FernandezJake
Recommandations
- 60
Village Voice
Loosely based on writer-director Adam Sherman's similar cult upbringing and disillusionment, the film builds on a fascinating cautionary tale, but doesn't develop its characters past whatever movie-of-the-week crisis each suffers from. - 50
Boxoffice Magazine
We get the broad strokes of how the hippies corrupted their own movement, but there isn't a single lead character we'd give a dollar to on Haight Street. - 40
New York Daily News
The kids' story gets out of control, but Andie MacDowell is a pleasantly earthy mess as Victor's out-of-it mother, and familiar New York faces (Ann Magnuson, Mark Boone Jr., Richard Edson) lend quirky support as the out-of-it elders. - 40
Variety
Sherman's personal wounds feel fresh, which makes for a superficially beautiful but otherwise bitter story. - 25
Observer
As the film builds to a feverish hysteria, you have to work hard to keep from laughing. - 20
Time Out
Sherman based this obtuse psychosexual dystopia on his own hippie upbringing; the result is virtually teeming with bitter resentment for the drug-addled parent collective that inadvertently turned his adolescence into a chapter from "Lord of the Flies." - 20
The Hollywood Reporter
An overwrought and undernourished drama. - 10
Los Angeles Times
An astoundingly bad memory piece that blows its potential dramatic heft at every turn.
