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www.eonline.com - : Part '90s empowerment, part '50s melodrama, this girls-coming-of-age film is all parts convoluted. Burress (from the NBC sitcom Boston Common) and Shimizu (a Calvin Klein model) turn in solid performances as girls who escape abusive parents and at-school sexual harassment with the help of troubled rebel Jolie (Jon Voight's daughter). But first-time director Annette Heywood-Carter's uneven storytelling obscures the inherent drama in the issues, and the result is less Thelma and Louise than Reform School Girls. more...
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www.boxoffice.com - : Not since ''Thelma and Louise'' has a film as skillfully captured the true essence of female struggle, rebellion, pain, and subsequent bonding so effectively. ''Foxfire,'' the directorial debut of Annette Haywood-Carter, is a powerfully intoxicating story about four frightened teenagers and a darkly mysterious female drifter who influences and forever changes their lives, as they join forces in an all-out rebellion that quickly escalates into a sometimes violent, deeply moving journey into the unknown. more...
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