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Mouth To Mouth (2006)

Reviewed by Scott Brown | May 24, 2006

Scott Brown

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EW's GRADE

B-

Details Limited Release: May 19, 2006; Rated: Unrated; Length: 97 Minutes; Genre: Drama; With: Ellen Page

$TEENAGE WASTELAND Young Sherry (Page) feels empty inside -- as does \'\'Mouth to Mouth\'\'$

TEENAGE WASTELAND Young Sherry (Page) feels empty inside -- as does ''Mouth to Mouth''

Ellen Page (Hard Candy, X-Men: The Last Stand) tumbles through Mouth to Mouth's glassy-eyed coming-of-age tale, which, despite its indifferent Euro backdrop, plays like an all-American wine-cooler hangover. Sherry (Page) is an overtraveled, underparented teen who falls in with a multiculti homeless-outreach group — emphasis on ''cult.'' Before she knows it, she's deep in the musky thrall of group founder Harry (Eric Thal). Writer-director Alison Murray picks at a hard, true hurt in this zombie melodrama of defloration, but nothing beyond that hurt really comes into focus.

Originally posted May 24, 2006 Published in issue #879 Jun 02, 2006 Order article reprints

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