
Summer in a small southern town: Grace wants to go to college, but her feckless mom has poisoned that well (no student loans because mom has welshed on credit cards in Grace's name). Dorian wants to escape from his snobbish adoptive parents. They team up to sell marijuana - she hopes for enough to go to college. Both investigate family secrets, and things get complicated when Dorian falls for her, Grace falls for someone else, and Grace's 15-year-old sister behaves badly. Can... (Full plot summary below)
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Summer in a small southern town: Grace wants to go to college, but her feckless mom has poisoned that well (no student loans because mom has welshed on credit cards in Grace's name). Dorian wants to escape from his snobbish adoptive parents. They team up to sell marijuana - she hopes for enough to go to college. Both investigate family secrets, and things get complicated when Dorian falls for her, Grace falls for someone else, and Grace's 15-year-old sister behaves badly. Can Dorian find independence and Grace get to college? And what constitutes a family, anyway?
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| National Newspaper Publishers Association Dwight BrownDuVernay, in just her second feature film, exhibits the skills of a master filmmaker. |
| AALBC.comKam WilliamsA refreshing alternative to the superficial mainstream fare that tends to stereotype sisters as either sassy mammies or compliant sex objects. |
| Laramie Movie ScopeRobert RotenThis is a very effective and moving film, which is remarkable given the film's microscopic budget and 20-day shooting schedule. |
| TheMovieReport.comMichael DequinaIts unadorned simplicity belies the exquisite thought, craft, and heart that only could have made such an accomplishment possible. |
| honeycuttshollywood.comKirk HoneycuttThe fim's emotions bubble to the surface in ways that don't seem acted, in scenes that don't seem scripted. |
| Metro Times (Detroit, MI)Jeff MeyersThere's also a fine line between meditative and just plain pokey ... It's only the charisma and passion of the film's performers that carries us to the end. |
| BET.comClay CaneA heartbreaking but teachable story about love and the morbid sacrifices we make to find it. |
| Seattle TimesMoira MacDonaldIt's confident storytelling, in which often the actors' faces, rather than dialogue, tell us what we need to know. |
| Chicago ReaderBen SachsThe love triangle, which comes to overwhelm the second half, feels more like soap opera than anything else, and the able cast can't redeem DuVernay's often dreadful dialogue. |
| ScreenAnarchyChase WhaleMiddle of Nowhere takes us on a pleasing road of self-discovery. |