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Summary: "Here's rule number one - you better not squirt."
Review: "Skipped Parts" takes place in 1963. It is narrated by Sam (Bug Hall), a seventh-grader, and aspiring writer. He doesn't know who his father is because his mother, Lydia (Jennifer Jason Leigh) is a promiscuous lush. Sam's Grandfather sends then away, with his financial support, so he won't be embarrassed by her when he runs for Governor of South Carolina. They end up in Wyoming, where Sam meets Maurey (Mischa Barton) during a school baseball game. They argue about Mark Twain in class. Shortly after, Maurey and her mom (Peggy Lipton) do a neighborly visit - the Welcome Wagon. Lydia is embarrassingly rude to them. Later, Sam tells his mom he thinks he's in love with Maurey cuz he can't stand her. Sam gets teased and hassled by girls in school, and also by Maurey's boyfriend, Dothan (Brad Renfro). On November 22, 1963, Kennedy is shot. Maurey is very upset and cries, and Sam consoles her. Dothan makes some racist remarks, and Maurey and Sam go to her house. In another fantasy, Sam kisses Maurey's mom. He has a resulting nocturnal emission and shows his mom. Later, Sam tells Maurey about it at the soda shop, and she talks to a waitress about sex. Maurey later shows up to "make sex" with Sam as a learning experience. They try but fail in a funny scene. Later, Lydia gives them a sex talk and advice. Later, Maurey gets pregnant, and contemplates abortion but decides to keep the baby. Maurey's dad kicks her out, so she moves in with Sam, Lydia, and Lydia's boyfriend Hank. The movie is well-acted by all. There is quite a bit of humor, too. The movie is R-Rated for language, which includes frank sexual talk, and sexual content. However, the sex scenes involving Sam amd Maurey are tame and mostly set up by the dialog, which is quite funny. This is probably Mischa's best movie after "Lawn Dogs". Drew Barrymore has a small part in Sam's fantasies. The DVD has a good commentary by director Tamra Davis, and a trailer.
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Summary: Travesty
Review: An accessible story with all the elements of a Great American Novel was somehow transformed into a perverse, worst of the worst ABC Afterschool Specials. If you had not read the book, you would be unable to follow what was happening. Some of the worst directing and editing I have seen in a long time. The original Evil Dead, with all its flaws, is a better put together film than this one. This movie is flat-out painful to watch. You get no justifications whatsoever as to why the characters behave as they do. It all seems so random. Read the book. If you see this movie in a rental store, just move along, please, nothing to see here.
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Summary: Skipped Parts
Review: Do yourself a favor and skip this movie!. As some one who grew up in Wyoming in the sixties I was terribly offended by this movie. I haven't read the book this movie was based on but I hope it was more on target than this movie... Someone needs to inform Hollywood that Wyoming is closer to Canada than Georgia..people from Wyoming don't talk with a southern accent. If I hear Brad Renfro say Y'all one more time..... Jennifer Jason Leigh recieved critical acclaim for playing a drunk in the movie "Georgia" so it seems she is just going to keep playing the same role over and over again. Please someone make her stop. She is way past the age where she can play a twenty something unwed mother.She is much better at playing the forty something washed up actress in "The Anniversary Party". Frankly this movie just made me sad, sad that movies like this get made, and sad that I wasted two hours of my life.
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Summary: Depraved, insipid, insulting.
Review: Here's a funny topic: a mother talking candidly with her son about the sexual techniques he should use. Oh, yes, he's a pubescent, ha ha ha! Truly, this is a depraved film. Besides that, the movie -- set in the early 1960s -- ends with a speech about how a "person" can feel truly alive in the mountain wilderness. Back in the early 1960s, the feminist stupidity about the origin of the word "man" had not yet gained sway among the dolts who run the movie and publishing industries, so the word "man" certainly would have been used. This was one of several totally jarring episodes in this really gross, immoral, disgusting film. I'd give it a negative-5 rating if I could.
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Summary: BEST MOVIE!!!
Review: I have gotten this movie 4 days ago, and ive watched it about 15 times!! it has to be one of my fav. movies. Every 5 minutes there is another part to laugh at.....Im your squaw!! buy it and find out what im talking about!!!
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Summary: Skipped Parts
Review: I live in the area which this movie was filmed, Regina, Lumsden, Regina Beach, Saskatchewan Canada. I can remeber watching the making of this film and hearing the buzz about it on the local TV stations and newspapers. I have eaten at the Blue Bird Cafe, and still do, the cafe at which Lydia ends up working. I can say without question that this is one of the best comedies I have seen ever. It has a touch of strong emotion and a lot of flat out humour. This is a movie that you can watch anytime, more then once. I strongly recomend this one!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
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Summary: "SKIP" the movie - opt for the novel
Review: I was so excited when I saw this movie available at my local [video store]. Tim Sandlin's coming-of-age novel is one of my favorite books. It's sweet, self-deprecating, and tactile. Unfortunately, the movie adaptation is dry, humorless and poorly acted. I wasn't sure how Hollywood would take such a shocking and sexual book and relate the important scenes (which quite often were sexual) to reality. You cannot translate this book while playing it safe. I don't think anyone should have tried. The series of novels, called the "GroVont Trilogy" are worth every penny. You'll laugh despite yourself and be thoroughly entertained. STAY AWAY from the film. Jennifer Jason Leigh overacts as usual, and Brad Renfro isn't smart enough to play the lead. I don't buy it for one second (no pun intended). I hope this helps - and again Tim Sandlin is a fantastic author - don't use this sorry film to judge his work. Take the time to read the book - you'll thank me...
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Summary: "SKIP" the movie - opt for the novel
Review: I was so excited when I saw this movie available at my local [video store]. Tim Sandlin's coming-of-age novel is one of my favorite books. It's sweet, self-deprecating, and tactile. Unfortunately, the movie adaptation is dry, humorless and poorly acted. I wasn't sure how Hollywood would take such a shocking and sexual book and relate the important scenes (which quite often were sexual) to reality. You cannot translate this book while playing it safe. I don't think anyone should have tried. The series of novels, called the "GroVont Trilogy" are worth every penny. You'll laugh despite yourself and be thoroughly entertained. STAY AWAY from the film. Jennifer Jason Leigh overacts as usual, and Brad Renfro isn't smart enough to play the lead. I don't buy it for one second (no pun intended). I hope this helps - and again Tim Sandlin is a fantastic author - don't use this sorry film to judge his work. Take the time to read the book - you'll thank me...
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Summary: Skipped Parts
Review: I was so very disappointed in Skipped Parts. After preordering and waiting so long for it, the movie is not at all what I was hoping for. The sexual exploration between the teenagers could have been handled much differently without some of the crude comments. What I thought was going to be a very good movie with an interesting storyline, has turned out to be a crude and unappealing story.
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Summary: Amazing Film, if you haven't read the book
Review: Notice while you skim the other reviews, the only people who say this is a bad movie are the ones who've read the book. Those people are way too sensitive and end up slandering the actors, all because society couldn't handle the X-rated version of this movie starring 14 year olds that the book's literal translation would've been. OF COURSE IT WAS DUMBED DOWN AND LOST MOST OF IT'S SEXUALITY. It's America. We don't like to talk about true tragic events, like teen pregnancy or drunken parents. So, ignoring the book, here's the movie: Decent actors play out, most convincingly, the story of a family who is moved from their rich lifestyle to live all alone in a hickville. The mother, who is politically incorrect for the time period, is unnaturally liberal and, thought not portrayed as a tragedy, distant from her son. Scenes in which she inadvertandly tastes his semen, in which the son's girlfriend brings him to accidental climax, in which the two announce that they'll be leaving the room to have sex IN FRONT OF THE MOTHER WHO DOES NOTHING TO STOP THEM... it's all satyrical, but you have it constantly in your head that while it IS funny in this film's context, it happens and isn't funny elsewhere. Cameo by Drew Barrymore as the fantasy girl. Starring Jennifer Jason Leigh as the nutbag mom, Bug Hall (The Little Rascals) as the son, and an onslaught of talented others to fill out the rest of the cast, the film has some very disturbing dramatic and (obviously disturbing) comedic scenes. Quite an odd little film. Still, the book goes WAY PAST the movie, so if for some reason, this movie fills out your sick desires... grab the book, you'll really enjoy. If you like the movie due to style and humor and plot, grab the book - it's so much better. STILL, I give the film a 4. Great stuff. Sticks with you for a while.
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