That was an excellent one.

One of my all time favorites.

A different way of telling a story

Very interesting film. Was caught on the premise when seeing the trailer but unsure as to what the outcome would be for the showing. As it turns out, it was a very good film.

Poor old RavenGlamDVDCollector cannot get further than the downloaded trailer, which I got to after doing research on Dominique Swain and TART. Took one look and instantly saw that it had a CLUELESS Alicia Silverstone vibe and I was more than hooked, I was being reeled in. But when I found it after a long struggle (searching for "GIRL" at my supplier brought more than 660 hits, from THE GIRL NEXT DOOR to GOSSIP GIRL to quite every girl in the New York phone guide, but I zoomed in by searching "Dominique Swain") the price caused all my elation to fade. In my country, you can buy a second-hand motorcycle for that price. My review is therefore based on the trailer alone, and is merely here because I want to have my say about a movie I didn't even know about until yesterday afternoon, but will take up a lot of my time in the months to follow, as I will constantly monitor for a price drop. This morning, looking at the trailer again, noticed it was even more of a MY SO-CALLED LIFE ambiance, and Dominique really mimics Claire Danes most winsomely. With the hook in deep, the buzz for this is as high with me as the chances of getting to it properly is low, so bear with me if the review is as stale as days-old bread. Oh to be as fortunate as to waft on indignantly about it as some of you privileged lot out there in Civilization. Find a little-known 1998 title in our struggling, floundering video-rent stores? Snowball's chance in hell on a summer's day with no umbrella. The big draw-card for me is the intentional CLUELESS/MY SO-CALLED LIFE vibe. It's hilarious and draws me to it like a bee is drawn to honey. I loved Dominique Swain in the remake of LOLITA, and I'm really long overdue to see her in something else. Here she is very cute, so cute that I can only say that she must be miscast, as any girl THAT PRETTY would know she is THAT PRETTY and not need friends to tell her she is sexy for GIRLS HAVE MIRRORS, you know, and that one has a very lucky mirror. But the appeal to me lies in the Cher Horovich/Angela Chase speech patterns, I more than loved CLUELESS and MY SO-CALLED LIFE, and they were two of my all-time favorite characters. Throw in Tara Reid and this can only be a truckload of fun.Addendum, 20 December 2015. I just downloaded the first ten minutes, thank you VuClip!While the trailer promises a bright, funny chick, the movie, judged by its first ten minutes, appears disappointingly dull, like it's got no beating heart, like key elements are there, but not a trace of spark. Aneamic. Believe me, this isn't sour grapes at all. I might never obtain this title, I monitor the price daily, going "Christmas! Bah! Humbug!" and am hoping for a reprieve on which I would act, but this strategy might not work. Anyway, movie itself now seems truly bleak, but Dominique's fault it certainly wasn't. Note to producers: Yes, a pretty girl is a must-have ingredient, but don't forget the ZING! You need to add oodles of ZING and CHARM. Then you get MAGIC. And fill theaters and sell DVDs (at normal prices! and making even more bucks!) - A fanatic collector's lament.For anybody who do not understand what I am on about, witness the trailer on VuClip, and then the 10 minute clip. The difference is marked. Sadly. It's like a cake falling flat. A cake-mix that has lots of very good ingredients, yummy-delicious, in it.Ironically, I got my titular wish granted without the actual DVD. :({since been obtained, at sky-high cost}Addendum, 19 October 2016. The movie proved to be a whole lot more popular with me than that download made it appear. Everything is better on a big screen. The famous (well, with me anyway) trailer also appears on the DVD, and I can just look at it and smile warmly. Even though the picture has its flaws, I think Dominique Swain is just the prettiest thing well me being me, I shouldn't say the prettiest thing ever... But most definitely one of the foremost contenders for that title. As far as I'm concerned. You'd notice heavily-laden sour grapes if you'd wade through the other reviews here. An hour-and-a- half commercial for Noxzema, hell, gee, I can just see the bitter ol' thing who wrote that one. I mean, I feel your pain, us lesser mortals live in the Ugly Tree, huh? Be warned that Dominique Swain in this movie is absolutely, absolutely 100% enough to cause a total onslaught of envy. Wow, think what pals you could be with a mirror if you looked like that one!Similarities with those two names I mentioned back in the beginning: Enough for me to say that the producers were obviously influenced by MY SO-CALLED LIFE and CLUELESS. Down to Andrea writing with a marabou-feathered (very cumbersome!) pen, like Cher in CLUELESS. And when Tara Reid's character first appeared, I yelled out to myself: A.J. Langer!As for the story itself, of course it doesn't live up to my initial expectations. But they were on to something real real real good, and with a lead as pretty as Dominique, I could just beg for more, should have been a TV series. The way she lights up the screen in that scene where she first hears Todd sing... glam magic movie history. I'm just done for. Stick a fork in me, to quote a line.If The Raven could have hooked up with a movie character, anyone of his choice, taking into account beauty + personality, = Andrea Marr.

I read this book years before they made it a movie. I so loved the book. Years later i was watching TV with my best friend (who also loved the book) and it came on the movie channel. I love this movie. I can understand where a guy might think this a bad movie. But i think you have to be a girl to understand and really appreciate this movie. Give it a chance. Its like a coming of age movie but more. Andrea is this strait a student thats been sheltered and its her senior year and feels like she needs to experience more before going to college. She falls for this beautiful lead singer of a band, the color green. She thinks he will change her life when really in the end she changes his. Its a great movie. I really recommend it to any female, and any guy willing to have an open mind and not be like a total stupid male.

While this is far from brilliant film-making, it's a decent enough coming-of-age film which compares favorably to such entertainments as "Dazed and Confused" and "Heathers". The narration is sufficiently witty to be worth paying attention to, and the characters and situations are all plausible enough, given that we're dealing with fictitious characters and situations! As Andrea Marr, Dominique Swain explores the world of teenage angst brought on by peer pressure, parental anxiety, socio-economic forces, and other equally distressing aspects of life as we think we know it. With its postmodern approach to what it seems to take to feel good about oneself these days, the film should strike a chord with everyone who's ever wondered why ANYONE ever bothers to get out of bed, particularly a high-school senior with no clue who she wants to be when she grows up. What she learns about herself by the end of the film, while hardly profound, is nevertheless a lesson that all too many people fail to comprehend--we all want to feel special and we all want to have fun without having to take responsibility for the consequences of our actions. Sure, it's been filmed a whole lot better a number of times, but it's a cut above "Porky's", "Revenge of the Nerds", and other movies of that ilk! Follow your yellow brick road.

I don't understand why there aren't more movies out there like this. Instead of some out there story that entertains but no one can relate to we have here a film that most people can see themselves in. Everybody was young once, everybody had a crush on someone at sometime. Andrea is spoiled and sheltered yes, but she just wants the same thing we all do. To be noticed, to be understood, to feel great passion and to be moved by something from the inside out. She's the girl in the crowd of many who wants the rock star and guess what? She gets him!!! YAY!!!! I am especially in love with that scene in her bedroom, imagining Todd is there. Just sitting there in that rocking chair watching her with that look. ::sigh:: OK, maybe this is just so thoroughly a chick flick or a young person's movie that it appeals more to certain people than others but I can't say enough good things about it. Everybody loved Dirty Dancing and that was so Hollywood (although my Mom felt like it was very akin to her own youth). This is real, this is our time, our place, in this movie. I especially love Summer Phoenix in this, we need to see more from her.