Wonderful character development!

Most undeservingly overhyped movie of all time??

The film creates a perfect balance between action and depth of basic needs, in the midst of an infertile atmosphere.

Great example of an old-fashioned, pure-at-heart escapist event movie that doesn't pretend to be anything that it's not and has boat loads of fun being its own ludicrous self.

First viewing, this was way different and way better than I had expected from the user reviews that I have read, while not being in the top 33% of features ever made, this is middling. The ending. MT, the central actress, is again looking her true age, 18ish, despite all that has gone before. Something to shrug off as other than that it is a neat ending. Except that second viewing the dive at the start was her character at age 23ish and the ending is around a year later. It fits. I had been confused by comments that maybe referred to the novel rather than to this adaptation? Symbolism as a bigger problem. I assume that the dive can be interpreted as symbolic of something fairly commonplace and that symbols such as 23 and 35 and library books and dressmaking are liable to be around. MT Carrie really being 18 fits this aspect really well. Stories often get carried away by symbolism to the detriment of the story and that does not happen in this case, but I would still have preferred this set with Carrie as age 18 to 19. I can like this story, the symbolism does not mess things up. A drawback with the DVD is that it is region 1 and 4x3 and interlaced. Not so unusual with MT stuff. It can still look good even though it should look even better. It looks as if part was filmed on reel and part on videotape? Replaying on a Blu-ray compatible computer system improves the quality, for me. The DVD sleeves for both this and The Circuit suggest that these 2010 releases might have been encouraged by Trachtenberg fans taking an interest and if so I cannot complain. A fan can hope that these lead to more being released. *** The acting quality. Approach this as an MT fan and her opening and end comments can stick out painfully, but the rest is very okay. I do get this tangle with some fan stuff. Other than that, I got this DVD as a fan thing and do not consider my purchase as a waste, I had been hoping to get an affordable copy of this disk for some time. I have qualms but they are not over-riding.Re-watch this in 2015 and I am finding it to be much better than a lot of stuff that I have seen recently. I am glad that I purchased my disk.

I thought this movie was an OK movie. I never read the book but I really want to. I'm sure I'll like the book more when I read it than the movie but that's besides the point. I thought the story was OK and the thing I really liked was Michelle Tractenberg in this movie. I'm so tired of her playing a teenager or an immature character in some really stupid kiddie movie. In this movie however; I really liked her acting because she got to play a grown up. In real life, she is like 20 and I'm so sick and tired of her playing a kid so this was great. I think if she was given more roles to play as a grown up,her talent would really show. The one thing I didn't like was the ending. It kind of left you hanging on what happened and didn't really explain. I'm hoping the book is better. That's all I liked about this movie.

This is the first time I have seen Michelle Trachtenberg in an adult role. She still looks like a cute kid but her acting talent puts her into the character as a twenty-something. Probably not an Emmy role but notable just the same. The gal is good!The DP got the angles and lighting right, but a note to the costume designer and/or director: She looks good in colors other than black.The story did have a few interesting turns. I can see why it was a best selling book...and why it was made into to a Lifetime movie. If you like them (I do), you will like this one, too. The ending (and Michelle) left me begging for a sequel or maybe a short series.

Yet another sad attempt at turning a book into a film. I discovered the book by accident and went about encouraging my friends to read it because the characters, story, and compelling ending needed to be discussed. This film lends itself to no discussion beyond asking for what purpose the things that were changed, especially in character, were changed. By significantly changing the characters, especially Kiroy (the character in the book would NEVER have gone chasing after Carrie), the film lost all of the soul of the book. The greatest moment in the book, when Carrie gets the sewing machine in the mail, wasn't even in the film. Further, the film became less about one woman's journey to discover who she is and more about her dealing with her fiancé's accident. Definitely not recommended. Read the book.