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Fish Tank
Why this pick
Its close, unsentimental attention to a volatile teenage girl and an apparently charismatic older man builds the same uneasy mix of longing, family friction, and creeping danger.
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MOVIE1985 1h 32m GBR
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A brutally frank adolescent perspective, tense family dynamics, and a steadily darkening examination of sexual vulnerability make this a confrontational companion to Smooth Talk.
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Why this pick
It shares Connie’s desire for adult experience and the imbalance between teenage self-discovery and an older man’s attention, while giving its heroine a more interior, playful voice.
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Thirteen
Why this pick
Its raw, intimate focus on a young girl testing limits amid maternal tension captures the same restless hunger to escape childhood, though at a faster, more frantic pace.
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Foxes
Why this pick
A group of teenage girls navigate neglectful adults, sexual attention, and precarious freedom in a sun-bleached, emotionally unsettled coming-of-age drama.
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01 / THE STORY
A little about the film.
Connie Wyatt is a restless 15-year-old who is anxious to explore the pleasures of her sexual awakening. Before she enters her sophomore year in high school, she spends the summer moping around her family farm house. She suffers from her mother's put-downs, while hearing nothing but praise for her older sister, June. Her father somehow manages to float around the family tensions. She also helps paint the cottage, just as her mother constantly demands her to.
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02 / FACES IN THE FRAME
The people who bring it to life.
Mary Kay Place
Katherine Wyatt
Levon Helm
Harry Wyatt
Elizabeth Berridge
June Wyatt
Margaret Welsh
Laura Condon
Joy Carlin
Laura's Mother
Carl Mueller
Mall Boy
Michael French
Stan
Laura Dern
Connie Wyatt