Sara is a young girl raised in a family of goat farmers. Her parents homeschool their twelve children, rigorously following the precepts of the Bible. Like her sisters, Sara is taught to be a devout woman, subservient to men while keeping her emotional and physical purity intact until marriage. When Sara meets Colby, a young amateur bull rider, she is thrown into crisis, questioning the only way of life she has ever known. In a stunning portrayal of contemporary America and t... (Full plot summary below)
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Sara is a young girl raised in a family of goat farmers. Her parents homeschool their twelve children, rigorously following the precepts of the Bible. Like her sisters, Sara is taught to be a devout woman, subservient to men while keeping her emotional and physical purity intact until marriage. When Sara meets Colby, a young amateur bull rider, she is thrown into crisis, questioning the only way of life she has ever known. In a stunning portrayal of contemporary America and the insular communities that dot its landscape, Stop the Pounding Heart is an exploration of adolescence, family and social values, gender roles, and religion in the rural American South.
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| Cinema ScopeJay KuehnerMore than the sum of its avowed influences, Stop the Pounding Heart evidences a supplicant style of filmmaking. |
| Detroit NewsTom LongAuthenticity is the warm blood that pumps through "Stop the Pounding Heart," a low key but mesmerizing look at adolescent awakening in a fundamentalist family. |
| Movie MezzanineAmir SoltaniStop the Pounding Heart is at once restrained and tactile, the work of a silently observant filmmaker who is as compassionate as he is critical. |
| NOW TorontoNorman WilnerStop The Pounding Heart is a modest production, but that's okay. You don't need a huge budget when you're working with simple truths. |
| What CultureSimon GallagherIt's not quite The Hills, as there's very much the sense that these characters, or versions of them, do actually exist, and Minervi is clearly fascinated in their realities, but there simply isn't enough here to really engage. |
| User ReviewCody CAuthenticity is the warm blood that pumps through "Stop the Pounding Heart," a low key look at adolescent awakening in a fundamentalist family. |
| User ReviewReini UThe little drama being created by the filmmaker seems to be a little enforced, but it's all about the almost non-judgemental observation of an anti-modern hill-billie farmers family, living 40 miles from me, and coming every weekend to my farmers market next door. Guns, Jesus, home schooling, bullriding, home birth, you get it. Minervini shows us the life beyond that. |
| User ReviewDavid JIt was made for critics to revel in I suppose. The film seemed contrived and was overall just unenjoyable. These rednecks rolling around in the dirt and shooting guns were depressing as well as stupid. I did not gather anything of importance being said as a commentary. There are too many films being made. |
