Storyline Edit. Bothersome New York City high-school student Lisa Cohen 17 , who consistently messes up her life and that of boy classmates, searches New York in vain for a fit cowboy hat to wear at an excursion with her separated father and stepmother. Spotting one on bus driver Maretti's head but failing to board, she stubbornly runs along and keeps claiming his confused attention, until the bus hits a blind senior, who is wounded fatally The NYPD quickly closes the case as an accident, but Lisa, duly consumed by guilt and spared any charge, starts bothering everyone and making a mean pest of herself, not only at home, as self-absorbed actress mother may deserve, but also in the precinct, tracking down the victim's uninterested kin out of town and even Maretti at home.
A family friend lawyer gets involved in the case, digging in to compromising circumstances and causing real trouble to people who were of the hook. Rated R for strong language, sexuality, some drug use and disturbing images. Did you know Edit. Goofs When Lisa comes home after the accident, throws up and hugs her mother, there's no blood on her arms and hands. In the next shots under the shower, there is plenty. Quotes Emily : Because Alternate versions Extended version released on DVD runs for minutes.
User reviews Review. Top review. Lonergan is simply brilliant. The way he combines real life drama with literary references by that showing his characters inclination to intellectually interpret dramatic events and their gut reaction to them, is just incredible. This is by far the best movie of and the fact that is wasn't even nominated for an Oscar shows just how flawed the Hollywood promotion machine is.
I've seen quite a lot of reactions from viewers that leave me mystified: Lisa's a spoiled brat, no more of Paquin's screaming, the film takes forever blabla I have a suggestion for you : go see Spiderman or some action movie that will keep you satisfied in terms of pace because you certainly didn't get anything out of this movie.
It has nothing to do with how likable Lisa is. This is a coming of age movie. If you have characters who are mouthpieces for a point of view then you have to be very clever about disguising it.
And in terms of being a dramatist, it turns them from characters into, you know, mouthpieces, and I have always tried to avoid that as scrupulously as possible. I have lots of opinions that have nothing to do with the movie, and I try to keep them out of it. But the main thing is that if you can say it in a sentence, why spend two and a half, three hours putting it into a film or a play.
There is the sense that law is sort of in the air—the police are doing their work, lawyers are doing their work, courts are doing their work, and suddenly not only is Lisa involved in it, but you feel the vectors of these authorities. I mean, she does very, very well—she does very well for anybody, but particularly for a kid. Do you plan a film out before you get to the location or sets? If you read the screenplay, there are a number of shots written out that I thought of while I was writing it—I would say about a fifth of the scenes—I had an idea of what I thought they should look like.
Once you start talking to the cinematographer and get closer to shooting you really start thinking about how it should look; how you want to express the ideas visually or how you want to tell the story visually. With this [movie] more than the previous one, I had a clear idea about how I wanted it to look. Having been told that the first time, I started thinking that way much earlier in the process.
One of the main visual ideas, without knowing exactly what the look would be, was that I wanted it took look as natural as possible. But I did really want it to look like the real city. Lonergan finally agreed to pay some money to Camelot in settlement and now the parties can put their dispute behind them.
As for Lonergan, he credits Matt Rosengart , his attorney at Greenberg Traurig for the outcome, expressing relief at how the long battle turned out. Despite the attacks and having to deal with five years of litigation, Kenny persevered and prevailed — both as a director and as a defendant. There is just no other fair way to describe it.
E-mail: Eriq. Gardner THR. Deadmau5 Trademark Battle Brewing? Sign up for THR news straight to your inbox every day. April 2, pm. Logo text. Its flaws are not failures of nerve or confidence or artistic vision, but of attaining its final shape. I doubt it was possible to cram Lonergan's ambitions realized in virtually every scene of the theatrical release into a minute time slot. I'm hoping that, beginning Tuesday, we'll gain a better understanding of what he meant last fall when he said , " Thanks to Ray Pride for the script.
Scanners Margaret: The masterpiece that almost got away. Jim Emerson July 08, Even on the page, without the interpretive genius of the actors and direction, an exchange like this one between Lisa and her mother just a small excerpt of the whole scene is extraordinary for its ever-shifting dynamics, attacks and feints and parries: LISA I don't like that kind of singing. JOAN But you like classical music.
LISA Yes. That's true. But I don't like opera singing. I guess I do like opera singing. I just didn't realize it. JOAN What is the matter with you? LISA Why are you pushing this? I don't want to go to the opera! Latest blog posts. Latest reviews. Procession Matt Zoller Seitz.
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