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Palo Alto
The film revolves around the girls and boys growing up with a life full of wrong such as emotion, sex, drugs, alcohol and violence. April, a shy, sensitive girl is the class virgin, torn between an illicit flirtation with her soccer coach Mr. B and an unrequited crush on sweet stoner Teddy. Emily, meanwhile, offers sexual favors to every boy to cross her path - including both Teddy and his best friend Fred, a live wire without filters or boundaries. As one high school party bleeds into the next - and April and Teddy struggle to admit their mutual affection - Freds escalating recklessness starts to spiral into chaos.
22 July 1989
3 November 1994, Aiken, South Carolina, USA
11 August 1974, New York City, New York, USA
28 March 2003, Los Angeles, California, USA
6 September 1969, Tucson, Arizona, USA
28 September 1942, Tulsa, Oklahoma, USA
25 April 1946, Lake Success, Long Island, New York, USA
2 October 1936, Greensburg, Kansas, USA
23 October 1994, Montana, USA
October 24, 2014
The drama is scaled to just the right size: kids get into trouble or inadvisable situations, but there are no major melodramatics. We see them in their natural habitat.
October 19, 2014
Another week, another glacial outing from the ever-expanding Coppola clan depicting the oh so beautiful emptiness of American teenage wildlife.
May 23, 2014
That Coppola finds occasional grace and spirit here shows understanding and compassion. Her next assignment? Make a movie that's not about the troubles of the privileged and bored.
October 17, 2014
The story tends to meander but the kids' ups and downs are delicately observed and the performances, especially from Roberts, are never less than believable.
June 06, 2016
The reality is that for many, [these] four years are marked by a more moderate, complicated set of things, and not the relentless bleakness displayed in [the] film.
October 17, 2014
Palo Alto is as fuzzy, scattered and aimless as its protagonists' lives.
June 12, 2014
Ultimately, "Palo Alto" is a messy yet haunting portrait of a particular time in life.
October 20, 2014
James Franco's collection of autobiographical short stories is adapted into a remarkably evocative film by Gia Coppola, granddaughter of Francis.
May 22, 2014
These slippery slices of life feel like the most honest, relevant film portrait of adolescence in ages.
May 29, 2014
It's accurate to say that "Palo Alto" is another movie by another Coppola about the lives of the rich, bored and disaffected, but that description sells the movie short.
June 13, 2014
A pale imitation of the early novels of Bret Easton Ellis, who wrote about young ennui and aimlessness from the inside out.
May 24, 2014
While it shows Coppola has talent, it's also as aimless as her characters' self-absorbed, self-medicated, joyless lives.