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Limited Release: May 23, 2001; Rated: R; Lengths: 96 Minutes, 95 Minutes; Genre: Drama; With: Marlene Forte, Melissa Martinez, Anna Simpson and Kerry Washington
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Owen Gleiberman
Owen Gleiberman is a film critic for EW
Made in a raw and glancing documentary style, Jim McKay's startling feature draws us into the illusion that we're simply eavesdropping on the lives of three inner-city black and Hispanic girls, all around 15 (they're played by an extraordinary trio of newcomers, Kerry Washington, Melissa Martinez, and Anna Simpson), as they meander through the steamy late-summer days in Crown Heights, Brooklyn. Their conversational style could be the urban-desperate version of Valley Girl patois, yet these girls are too young to hide their feelings, and McKay observes them with an objective intimacy that's like a form of grace.
Posted Jun 08, 2001
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