
Although Roxy left town more than fifteen years ago, her memory has never faded. Her expected return starts to impact a number of lives, including that of her former partner Denton Webb. But it is Dinky, the adopted daughter of the Bossettis and ignored by most of her classmates as a strange loner, who may be most changed. She is convinced she is Roxie's secret child.... (Full plot summary below)
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Although Roxy left town more than fifteen years ago, her memory has never faded. Her expected return starts to impact a number of lives, including that of her former partner Denton Webb. But it is Dinky, the adopted daughter of the Bossettis and ignored by most of her classmates as a strange loner, who may be most changed. She is convinced she is Roxie's secret child.
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| San Francisco ChronicleMick LaSalleThough ''Roxy Carmichael'' is never as fresh or powerful as it might have been, it is a sweetly engaging film in the Barry Levinson school: just when you think it might fall into a bottomless pit of sentimentality, it stops short. |
| Entertainment WeeklyNicholas FonsecaAn offbeat pic pointlessly oversaturated with grating characters who look like they got lost on their way to a John Waters fan club convention. |
| Washington PostHal HinsonWhere the movie sabotages her, though, is by insisting that all she really wants is to be like everyone else. |
| Chicago TribuneGene SiskelFans of Winona Ryder will definitely want to catch her in an offbeat role as the town rebel in this teen-oriented smalltown saga; unfortunately, the rest of the production doesn't quite match up. |
| Spirituality and PracticeFrederic and Mary Ann BrussatFocuses on the adolescent struggle to define oneself and also speaks about honesty, risk, loneliness, and self-respect. |
| Chicago Sun-TimesRoger EbertThe movie sinks into contrived plot manipulation. |
| Juicy CerebellumAlex SandellLukewarm film that's almost worth watching. |
| Los Angeles TimesSheila BensonWelcome Home, Roxy Carmichael isn't truly terrible, it's truly confused. It's as though director Jim Abrahams wanted to do heartfelt comedy-drama but couldn't quite shake off the wicked edge of his alma mater, ZAZ: Zucker-Abrahams-Zucker, the dementos behind "Airplane!" and "The Naked Gun." |
| The Associated PressHillel ItalieAs the movie slowly slogs along to its dreary, moralistic conclusion, Ryder`s sharp presence seems to recede into a candy-colored fog of sentimentality. |
| Orlando SentinelJay BoyarIssues of forced cuteness aside, the recent Pump Up the Volume did the alienated-youth bit more insightfully than this movie does. Pump Up the Volume was savvy enough to have its young hero make statements such as "I say down with all guidance counselors. Make them work for a living." In Welcome Home, Roxy Carmichael, the troubled teen's confidante is the school's guidance counselor. |