
An adventurous romantic drama about a high-school rich kid serving in the Marine Corps to avoid jail, and a schizophrenic actress, whose career is crashing. Mark Deloach lands in the Marine Corps and meets Dori Lawrence before shipping out. Mark and Dori are a perfect match of misfits introduced by a friend, Sue Dubois, whose mother is suing Mark. Dori has left the bright lights of Hollywood to fix her life and mental illness, while at boot camp, Drill Instructor Skeer is on ... (Full plot summary below)
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An adventurous romantic drama about a high-school rich kid serving in the Marine Corps to avoid jail, and a schizophrenic actress, whose career is crashing. Mark Deloach lands in the Marine Corps and meets Dori Lawrence before shipping out. Mark and Dori are a perfect match of misfits introduced by a friend, Sue Dubois, whose mother is suing Mark. Dori has left the bright lights of Hollywood to fix her life and mental illness, while at boot camp, Drill Instructor Skeer is on a mission not only to train Mark, but to make a man out of the rebellious teenager. The two outcast lovers, with more than a dose of humor, cling to their romance in spite of obstacles from authorities and circumstances which stand in their way.
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| Atlanta Journal-ConstitutionEleanor Ringel GillespieThe lovers' nonexistent chemistry doesn't generate enough heat to light a match. |
| Atlanta Journal-ConstitutionEleanor Ringel CaterThe lovers' nonexistent chemistry doesn't generate enough heat to light a match. |
| L.A. WeeklyJohn PattersonIf the contrast between Marine life and blue-blood luxury sometimes pulls the film in awkward directions, Anselmo's perceptive fondness for all his characters -- parents, children, grunts, even drill sergeants -- more than compensates. |
| Charlotte ObserverLawrence ToppmanWriter-director Reverge Anselmo has created a movie of ineptness so perfect and unified as to boggle the mind. |
| Film Journal InternationalHarry HaunStateside has some lopsided storytelling techniques, but emotionally it will get you home. |
| Dallas Morning NewsPhilip WuntchAlthough based on a true story, it never establishes its own identity, often playing like warmed-over J.D. Salinger. |
| VarietyRobert KoehlerPartially biographical story of a rich kid's unplanned encounter with the Marines and his even more random romance with a schizophrenic movie starlet is contrived and emotionally incomplete, and strained further by self-consciously cockeyed dialogue. |
| Film ThreatChristopher ZinsliThough there's nothing especially terrible about Stateside, there's nothing terribly special about it either. |
| Chicago Sun-TimesRoger EbertThe performances are strong, although undermined a little by Anselmo's peculiar style of dialogue, which sometimes sounds more like experimental poetry or song lyrics than like speech. |
| New York ObserverRex ReedMexican writer-director, Reverge Anselmo, is clueless about how to make any of it believable, cogent or even remotely interesting. |