
Joseph Svenden is a middle-aged school-teacher who lives on a farm with his dying mother. In his simple life there are no excitements, even in long-time relationship with a widow. However, when seventeen-year-old beauty enrolls in his class, Joseph would soon end up in her arms. After that, Joseph is torn between the passion and feeling that he is doing something wrong.... (Full plot summary below)
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Joseph Svenden is a middle-aged school-teacher who lives on a farm with his dying mother. In his simple life there are no excitements, even in long-time relationship with a widow. However, when seventeen-year-old beauty enrolls in his class, Joseph would soon end up in her arms. After that, Joseph is torn between the passion and feeling that he is doing something wrong.
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| Washington PostHal HinsonThink Dennis Hopper has played too many crazies? Well, you'll wish he'd stuck to blowing up buses after you see him in Carried Away. |
| Spirituality and PracticeFrederic and Mary Ann BrussatUsusual drama about personal transformation starring Dennis Hopper. |
| Ozus' World Movie ReviewsDennis SchwartzI wasn't carried away with this Lolita like cautionary tale, but I was impressed enough by its intelligent presentation. |
| Chicago Sun-TimesRoger EbertEveryone in the film -- even the teenager -- is more intelligent and articulate than is usually permitted in American movies, and having gotten themselves into an emotional tangle, they go to work getting themselves out again. |
| Austin ChronicleSteve DavisDirector Barreto has a fine eye for composition and a knowing heart for human emotion, keeping things simple and sparse. |
| Fantastica DailyChuck O'LearyCarried Away is a brilliant evocation of rural life and repressed lust. One of the ten-best films of 1996. |
| Washington PostDesson ThomsonTries to incorporate almost film-noir elements into a heartland love story. The blending feels inorganic; and composer Bruce Broughton doesn't help matters by coating every moment with a repetitive, syrupy theme. |
| User ReviewPrashant VIts a poetic movie, those who love poems and art, watch this movie. It'll blow your brains out... |
| User ReviewStacieIt would be easy to say that this movie is simply an old man's wet dream - perhaps it is... Meh, it had enough oddities and such to keep me interested for the entirety of the run time. |
| User Reviewhayri aA sensitive piece anchored by Hopper, fulfilled by the supporting cast, but let down by somewhat sterile direction. |