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Poison Ivy

Poison Ivy

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Rating: 4 stars
Summary: A Deadly Friend
Review: Sara Gilbert (from TV's "Roseanne") plays Cooper, a lonley teenager who befriends the new wild girl in school, Ivy, (Drew Barrymore). The two become best friends and Ivy eventually moves in with her. But Ivy isnt what she seems to be. Her sweet personality is only a mask covering her darker, evil side. Ivy has a plan to throw their friendship away and destroy Cooper's life. She starts by seducing her father, murdering her mother, and literally stealing Cooper's life from her. Once Cooper realizes whats shes up to, she tells her to get lost. But Ivy isnt about to go anywhere. An Edge Of The Seat Thriller!

Rating: 5 stars
Summary: Little miss naughty. 15th april 2004.
Review: She hasn't got hardly any friends, until she starts chating up a girl the similar age as her, who also hasn't got many friends either. Her best friend as a perfect mother and father until she decides to fall in love with the girls father and starts kissing him. Her mother is ill, she as wanted to kill herself many of times. She is a bad person but the girl dosent realise that until later on when she finds her with her dad, and also pushes her mother out of window. SHE WAS THE PERFECT FRIEND.

Rating: 4 stars
Summary: I'd watch Barrymore read the phone book
Review: Somehow you just believe this kid. She comes off less like a victim (which she technically is, being that she's underage, and old ugly Tom Scare-ett is after her) and more like a person who just seizes the moment for her own survival.

Rating: 1 stars
Summary: yu hyhyh
Review: terribel jun

Rating: 4 stars
Summary: Where is Leonardo di Caprio in the movie?
Review: The ending credits listed Leonardo di Caprio as "Guy" (and in Leo's filmography Poison Ivy is always on the list). My wife and I tried rewinding, fast-fowarding, and pausing the film many times but we can't find Leonardo in the movie. Can anyone help us? Thank you.

Rating: 4 stars
Summary: Posion Ivy on DVD
Review: The first of the "Poison Ivy" movies, were DrewBarrymore shines in her role as Ivy. New Line did it again this is agreat DVD it has the unrated and the R-rated versions of the movie and both in Full Screen and Widescreen versions. Othere than that and the Original trailer there is nothing intresting in the DVD. Some Commentary would have been great but I guess you don't get everything in life. If you like Drew Barrymore then Buy it its great.

(took off one start 'cuse there is no Commentary)

Rating: 2 stars
Summary: Below-average
Review: The only real good thing about the movie was it's well-cast characters, good performances, and the sex(which you can find more intriguing in Basic Instinct). Otherwise it contains extremely unappealing character(especially Skerrit, who starts to make love to Ivy even when he knows his daughter's in the hospital and even when his wife is dead;I wished Gilbert would have pushed him out the window) and silliness sink it deeply. Not much plot as well, with the familiar who's-sleeping-with-who melodrama. Ther is some character development, but it's also mean-spirited.

Rating: 4 stars
Summary: Chilling and Thrilling!
Review: This is a really good movie. It mixes seduction with emotion. Drew Barrymore is great as the seductive Ivy. This is a movie watchable again and again. Great movie....definately watch it!

Rating: 5 stars
Summary: EXCELLENT MOVIE!!!
Review: This is an excellent movie with great stars. Ivy (Drew Barrymore) is a teen outcast who becomes friends with rich but misunderstood Sylvie (Sara Gilbert) and slowly moves in with the family but not in the right way. If you're a huge Sara Gilbert and Drew Barrymore fan like I am, it's great. Characters are well portrayed. Great buy!!!

Rating: 3 stars
Summary: Is Drew worth an ocean of calamine lotion?
Review: This is primarily a vehicle to exploit the generalized sensuality of Miss Drew Barrymore, an excellent actress and heir of a great acting family. Drew, who was so cuddily in E.T. when she was six years old or so, is now oh so cuddily and then some to a more varied audience. Here, as a scheming little poor girl, she seduces dad, mom and daughter (in psychologically different ways) before slipping into murder. She is sexy, trashy and very pretty.

Sara Gilbert (from TV's "Rosanne") plays the dweeby poor little rich girl daughter with veracity and some wit. Tom Skerrit is the father without a clue; and Cheryl Ladd, looking rather fetching despite the role, is the dreary mother. Yes, old TV stars can find work! Best scene is when Sara and Drew go to the tattoo parlor. Drew makes a few ugly remarks causing Sara to get up to leave, but Drew draws her back tenderly (to pay the tab), pulls her close, and kisses her. When the beer-bellied tattoo guy tries to join in, the girls give him an "ugh!" and split.

The slow-motion seduction of Skerrit seems a little drawn out. Even after Drew kisses and licks his cut hand, Skerrit just looks off into space in befuddlement. Later things heat up though, and then take a kinky turn when Mom, through a drug and alcohol haze, dimly notices Drew wearing her sexy dress and doing some love numbers on her husband.

Second best scene is after the funeral with Drew sleeping in Cheryl Ladd's bed where she is discovered by Sara. Drew urges her friend, the distraught daughter, to join her. "Pretend I'm your mother," Drew says. As they lie in bed, Sara confides to Drew that what she couldn't say to her mother was "I love you." Drew kisses her head and holds her close.

What was intended here was a psychological study of a teenaged girl without much of a home or much of a family who is drawn to adopt her own family among those of her friends, and in doing so assumes the role of the mother in toto. What we get is a semi-pornographic focus on a very sexy screen darling, a ridiculous murder, and an even more ridiculous finale, the details of which you might want to see for yourself.


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