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  • Director: Melissa Painter
  • AMG Rating: starstar
  • Genre: Drama
  • Movie Type: Coming-of-Age, Psychological Drama
  • Themes: Sexual Awakening, Self-Destructive Romance, All Washed Up
  • Main Cast: Clea Duvall, Daryl Hannah, Tomas Arana, Eric Roberts
  • Release Year: 2000
  • Country: US
  • Run Time: 98 minutes

Plot

Eric Roberts appears in this coming-of-age drama about a young lass coming to terms with her parents' radical past. Raised without a mom, Cally (Clea DuVall just happens to stumble across Sabine (Daryl Hannah), a hippy-dippy artist with a passion for gauzy fabrics, driftwood sculptures, and potent psychotropics. Of course, this aging, drug-fried woman is Cally's mom, and soon Calley is obsessed with her, even to the point of having sex with her lover (Eric Roberts). ~ Jonathan Crow, All Movie Guide

Cast

Richard Hillman - Graham

Credit

Melissa Painter - Director, Brent White - Editor, Daryl Hannah - Executive Producer, Christine Vachon - Executive Producer, Paul Ryan - Cinematographer, Zachary Matz - Producer, Thomas Garvin - Producer, Melissa Painter - Screenwriter

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Directed by Melissa Painter
Produced by Timothy Bird
Thomas Garvin
Zachary Matz
Written by Melissa Painter
Starring Clea DuVall
Daryl Hannah
Tomas Arana
Eric Roberts
Music by Sam Bisbee
Cinematography Paul Ryan
Editing by Brent White
Distributed by Fries Film Group
Release date(s) May 15, 1999 (Cannes)
September 1, 2000 (United States)
Running time 93 mins
Country United States
Language English
Gross revenue $5,365 (sub total)

Wildflowers is a 1999 drama film directed by Melissa Painter. It stars Clea DuVall, Daryl Hannah, Tomas Arana and Eric Roberts. It features former American Poet Laureate Robert Hass reading some of his own poetry.[1]

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Plot

Clea DuVall stars as Cally, a 17 year old who has been raised by her father, not knowing her mother. When Cally meets a mysterious woman called Sabine, she becomes obsessed with her.

Distribution

Wildflowers premiered at the 1999 Cannes Film Festival. It was given a limited theatrical release in the United States on September 1, 2000. In the United States it grossed $5,365.[2]

Cast

Reception

At the 2000 SXSW Film Festival, Melissa Painter won the SXSW Competition Award for best Narrative Feature.[3] Review website Rotten Tomatoes gave Wildflowers a "rotten" rating of 50% based on six reviews.[4] Metacritic gave it a "generally negative" rating of 28% based on seven reviews.[5] In a review for The New York Times, A. O. Scott called the film dreamy and impressionistic, but ultimately empty. He praised Clea DuVall for her "intuitive grasp of emotion".[1] Writing for The Austin Chronicle, Barry Johnson called the film poignant. He praised Painter for her "lyrical, intimate direction" and DuVall for her "impressive, nuanced performance".[6] Christopher Null called the film bizarre and incomprehensible, "utterly hopeless as cinema".[7]

References

  1. ^ a b Scott, A. O. (2000-09-01), "Film Review; A 60's Marin County Map With Vietnam Left Off", The New York Times, http://movies.nytimes.com/movie/review?_r=1&res=9807E7DF1530F932A3575AC0A9669C8B63&oref=slogin, retrieved 2007-10-09 
  2. ^ "Business Data for Wildflowers". IMDb. http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0144688/business. Retrieved 2007-10-09. 
  3. ^ Zeman, Josh. "South by Southwest Film Festival". Filmmaker Magazine. http://www.filmmakermagazine.com/spring2000/columns/fests.php. Retrieved 2008-01-25. 
  4. ^ "Wildflowers (1999)". Rotten Tomatoes. http://uk.rottentomatoes.com/m/wildflowers/. Retrieved 2007-10-09. 
  5. ^ "Wildflowers (2000): Reviews". Metacritic. http://www.metacritic.com/film/titles/wildflowers?q=wildflowers. Retrieved 2007-10-09. 
  6. ^ Johnson, Barry (2000-03-10), "SXSW Film Festival: Five in Focus", The Austin Chronicle, http://www.austinchronicle.com/gyrobase/Issue/story?oid=oid%3A76229, retrieved 2008-01-25 
  7. ^ Null, Christopher (2000), "Wild Flowers Movie Review", FilmCritic.com, http://www.filmcritic.com/misc/emporium.nsf/reviews/Wild-Flowers, retrieved 2008-01-25 

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