
Jolie is an avid hip-hop fan who romanticizes the tough backgrounds of rappers like Tupac Shakur, dreams of being a rich basketball star, in order to support his African American girlfriend, Henrietta, who is pregnant with another man's baby. He makes the team due to a large donation from his well-off father, and believes that he is one step closer to becoming the one thing that he is not: Black.... (Full plot summary below)
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Jolie is an avid hip-hop fan who romanticizes the tough backgrounds of rappers like Tupac Shakur, dreams of being a rich basketball star, in order to support his African American girlfriend, Henrietta, who is pregnant with another man's baby. He makes the team due to a large donation from his well-off father, and believes that he is one step closer to becoming the one thing that he is not: Black.
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| The Film StageJared MobarakIt's a heightened reality based in truth that ultimately seems to glorify the actions I want to believe it's actually trying to vilify. |
| The New York TimesNicolas RapoldThe burlesque take on high school has some fine, ridiculous moments and lets the movie get away with more than a serious drama might. |
| Time OutJenna SchererTeenagers are jerks (it’s a scientific fact) but if you have one as your protagonist, they need a redeeming quality or two. |
| Los Angeles TimesAnnlee EllingsonThe script is short on details and insight, and when asked to comment on this condition — or the script's sketch of a culture on the cusp of the Internet revolution — the film, like its dirtbag protagonist, just shrugs. |
| VarietyRob NelsonMilkshake sucks all the flavor out of a tasty premise. |
| Village VoiceSherrie LiThe fact that Jolie isn't very likable would be less of a problem if this film were actually funny, but his selfish disregard for those around him only ends up making us feel bad for the people who care about him. |
| User ReviewKeith HLoved this film, like I said it was a film not a movie. It was very similar to my experiences in High School but different in the fact its made in Tacoma Park, Md. on Maple Ave which is like 5 min from where I live. Its honesty and realness of the kids feelings along with good simple acting and directing. I advise anyone to watch it because its an American story about a small amount of white kids who experience life as a minority. |
| User ReviewBenjamin LGotta love a movie that gets you laughing and squirming with discomfort in almost equal measures. Think it was a little too edgy for the 'top critics' but I was all about it-- watched it twice. |
| User ReviewBen NGreat movie. Worth seeing a true to life coming of age story about white kids. |
| User ReviewReena AFor the most part, I could never related to any coming of age high school stories in popular media, because it was so different from my own experience from outside D.C. in a school with extensive racial diversity and the nerdy magnet program that further complicated any stereotypical hierarchy of school portrayed in movies. While I am of course partial to liking American Milkshake because it essentially captures my upbringing, i think its a funny and entertaining film that totally gets the behavior and mindset of teenagers and captures racial dynamics that are prevalent outside a predominantly all-white bubble. |