About to stay a summer internship, promising young medical student at MIT, Raymond's mother, Susan, breaks her leg. Housebound and immobile, his father, Tom, makes Raymond stay home and take care of her. Susan's a troubled woman, and along with Raymond's own emotional strains, it leads them to intimate physical contact, which Raymond finds uneasy. He soon meets a high school girl, Toni, but his ability to handle starting a relationship with her is difficult, due to the emotio... (Full plot summary below)
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About to stay a summer internship, promising young medical student at MIT, Raymond's mother, Susan, breaks her leg. Housebound and immobile, his father, Tom, makes Raymond stay home and take care of her. Susan's a troubled woman, and along with Raymond's own emotional strains, it leads them to intimate physical contact, which Raymond finds uneasy. He soon meets a high school girl, Toni, but his ability to handle starting a relationship with her is difficult, due to the emotionally troubling recent events in his life.
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| eFilmCritic.comRob GonsalvesA bitingly funny tale of frustrated sexuality. |
| Independent on SundayQuentin CurtisWriter-director David O Russell's well-observed film captures the sullen defensiveness of adolescence, and finds humour and sensuality in strange places. |
| ColeSmithey.comCole SmitheyA very intriguing independent movie with stong performances. |
| Washington PostHal HinsonA director with a more sensationalistic temperament might have milked this last section of the picture for melodramatic effect, but Russell's direction becomes, if anything, more brisk and more clipped. |
| Washington PostJoe BrownThis is dangerous, dissonant material, but writer/director David O. Russell, making his feature filmmaking debut, somehow pulls it off. |
| Austin ChronicleMarjorie BaumgartenThe movie's tone concurrently embraces melodramatics and wry humor, a twisted suburban Oedipal knot seen through a sardonic, yet deeply involved, eye. |
| Entertainment WeeklyLisa SchwarzbaumDavies registers believable frustration and deadpan teenage disengagement in equal measure. |
| ReelViewsJames BerardinelliThis is not a "nice" movie -- it deals with some pretty intense issues (like incest and suicide) -- but it is both bold and inventive, and works because of an unforced approach. |
| EmanuelLevy.ComEmanuel LevyDavid O. Russell's gleefully subversive family saga offers a twisted coming of age tale that begins realistically before pushing its characters over rhe edge into lunacy. |
| The New York TimesCaryn JamesIt is also the sort of astonishingly fresh and self-assured work that can make a reputation. |
