Awesome movie, even though it's 'meta' and isn't a comedy
If you're expecting a lighthearted comedy, then stop here, because you'll hate this movie. It's as close as American movies ever come to a true tragedy.
This movie is about a girl, Ansiedad (which means anxiety in Spanish, which shows how clueless her mom is), who is really frustrated with her life, and wants to turn her life into a coming of age drama, where she escapes in the end by boarding a train.
Ansiedad does a bunch of research, trying to figure out how to be the girl in the movie that breaks through, and attains popularity in school. After she's graphed this out in her room, she meticulously follows her plan, step by step. Everybody else in the movie is clueless about what she's doing, even when she tells them, and she keeps following her plan to it's tragic completion.
Ansiedad is played by Cierra Ramirez, and her mom Grace is played by Eva Mendez. Ramirez does a great job of acting a super smart kid who's actually pulling off a crazy plan to...
Unexpectedly Pretty Good
I liked this movie. A lot. It was a welcomed change to the traditional emotional strife via Mother and Child.
The story revolves around a young teen who has grown tired of her mother's childish irresponsible ways. Especially when it comes to married men and money. Also the constant moving which is about the only thing that changes in their life. This movie, as depicted in Ansiedads research is akin to a metamorphosis. The teenager believes that a rite of passage would lead her on the path to freedom from her mom, this life. But as in life nothing goes as planned. Very good movie for a family to watch and discuss. Teens and preteens only though. B+
Fun, a bit weird, oddly fulfilling
Well it isn't a masterpiece of cinema, but not a bad flick. The high school girl Anne/Ansiedad comes across as a borderline narcissist who cruelly dumps her best and only friend in pursuit of a consciously thought out, clinically executed "coming of age" project. Her mother (Eva Mendez) is a flighty, sexy but lost working gal who nearly destroys a doctor's marriage, then nearly loses her daughter, then nearly ruins the restaurant where she works. Patricia Arquette is the stable, reasonable English teacher who anchors Ansiedad's adventure and occasionally fills in where mom is lacking. There are a few other supporting characters who are somewhat unusual and generally well played. Kendall Cross, as Alice Harford, the doctor's wife (who seems to always address him as "Doctor"), is a surprisingly solid and sympathetic character who is fighting to keep her own dysfunctional family together. Altogether, the cast is interesting enough that it makes up for what might be otherwise a rather...
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