
Tracey Berkowitz, 15, a self-described normal girl, loses her 9-year old brother, Sonny. In flashbacks and fragments, we meet her overbearing parents and the sweet, clueless Sonny. We watch Tracey navigate high school, friendless, picked on and teased. She develops a thing for Billy Zero, a new student, imagining he's her boyfriend. We see the day she loses Sonny and we watch her try to find him. In bits and pieces, we see what leads up to her riding in the back of a city bus... (Full plot summary below)
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Tracey Berkowitz, 15, a self-described normal girl, loses her 9-year old brother, Sonny. In flashbacks and fragments, we meet her overbearing parents and the sweet, clueless Sonny. We watch Tracey navigate high school, friendless, picked on and teased. She develops a thing for Billy Zero, a new student, imagining he's her boyfriend. We see the day she loses Sonny and we watch her try to find him. In bits and pieces, we see what leads up to her riding in the back of a city bus wrapped in a shower curtain. Coming of age, or just surviving?
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| Slant MagazineNick SchagerDirector Bruce McDonald splits his screen eight ways to Sunday in The Tracey Fragments, a splintered form ostensibly intended to match the psyche of his protagonist. |
| Toronto StarPeter HowellThis is a tough watch, but a rewarding one for those open to experimentation. |
| CinemaBlendJoshua TylerIt's a story that could have and should have been told in a short film free of McDonald's gimmicks. |
| OC WeeklyLuke Y. ThompsonLikely to overwhelm and annoy viewers hoping for Juno Part II, it is nonetheless an audacious and imaginative work that's sure to remain one of the year's best. |
| CompuserveHarvey S. KartenEven the adorable Ellen Page is entitled to perform in a dud. |
| Seattle Post-IntelligencerBill WhiteThe split screen has never been used so purposefully or with such aesthetic care, capturing the multiple perspectives of a character who cannot separate reality from illusion because the whole world is inside her head. |
| Jam! MoviesLiz BraunThe storytelling eventually gets bogged down in its own fancy footwork, leaving a viewer to wonder why everything was laid out in such a complex way. |
| Urban CinefileAndrew L. UrbanAn exploration of the heightened, extreme emotional sensations of adolescence, The Tracey Fragments is demanding and relentless, an image overload in search of resolution. |
| Filmcritic.comChris CabinArty to the nth degree, splintered and, yes, fragmented |
| Boxoffice MagazineJohn P. McCarthyWill be remembered as a shard in Page's filmography. |