Fantastic!

Dreadfully Boring

Go in cold, and you're likely to emerge with your blood boiling. This has to be seen to be believed.

Yes, absolutely, there is fun to be had, as well as many, many things to go boom, all amid an atmospheric urban jungle.

I feel grateful that the director had the courage needed to share this tale with us. I felt emotionally richer for the experience and couldn't rate it any less then 10 as it was so authentic and valuable in that regard. Difficult to watch but not a tear jerker at all, just completely honest.Yet again, I was shocked to read about the way in which they tricked Isabelle Nélisse to participate in it, and I strongly ethically oppose child actors being manipulated in such ways. She was amazing though, and I hope she will be able to look at it someday and feel proud about the final product of her being objectified the way she was. Kind of ironic and bitter, considering the movie partially deals with the topic of consent.

This movie is absolutely perfect. It's raw, real, and shows how sexual abuse can affect the subconscious for a lifetime. As someone who was sexually abused at a young age, I recommend this movie to anyone who has gone through something similar. You won't regret it. The acting is superb, the writing and style of film works great for the theme. POWERFUL, MOVING, BREATHTAKINGLY PAINFUL.. This is one movie I will never forget.

A powerful film. At first before I started watching the movie I thought that this were going to be one of those based in real life movies that people make just to tell a story that is important to them. But this film it got me by surprise. The movie is very well structured with a unique story telling that makes you very well aware about whats going on with the story. Even though you know about whats the story talks in away the movie lefts you astonished by the way the story is said. It has some scenes in the movie that makes you really involved with this story. What I like the most about this movie is the writing, really good jab done in this department, it was the strongest part of the movie. The acting its okay. Overall the movie its very great and I highly recommend it.

Jennifer Fox (Laura Dern) is a globe-trotting documentarian. She's engaged to Martin (Common) for the past 3 years and they're both often away for work. She teaches documentary filmmaking at a college. Her mother (Ellen Burstyn) is desperate to contact her after finding her old writing assignment. The memories of a childhood relationship resurface. She slowly investigates the scattered pieces of recollections. During the 70's, Jenny (Isabelle Nélisse) was a shy girl at 13. Her parents were fighting and she felt invisible. She worshipped her horse riding coach Mrs. G (Elizabeth Debicki). Mrs. G and running coach Bill Allens (Jason Ritter) were having an affair. They pulled Jenny into their secret relationship of which Bill took advantage.This HBO film tells a devastating tale. Laura Dern's performance is a nice growth from denial to realization. It's all on her face like when her student recounts her first sexual experience. Other standouts include Nélisse as the young Jenny and Jason Ritter. Nélisse is perfectly innocent and Ritter uses his personable charms to deviate from the normal creep trope. It's quite horrific. Obviously, this is a personal movie for filmmaker Jennifer Fox. It would have added to the reality of the movie if young Jenny read the assignment writing at the beginning of the movie. Better yet if young Jenny read Jennifer Fox's actual letter. It would be that much more poignant. Overall, this is devastating personal tale with a great performance.