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Some Freaks
The life of a young beautiful high school girl, Jil, who falls in love with Matt, a young high school teenager, who falls in love with Jil, has been changed completely, when she suffers from financial problems that challenges her and Leads Matt to break their relationship, as she is not the perfect girl he dreams of.
12 May 1990, Johnston, Rhode Island, USA
18 October 1991, Toronto, Ontario, Canada
10 June 1987, Los Angeles, California, USA
30 August 1979, Camarillo, California, USA
26 September 1995, Providence, Rhode Island, USA
August 02, 2017
You won't be able to shake writer/director Ian MacAllister McDonald's powerful commentary on what it's like to grow up today when you're less than perfect.July 28, 2017
The characters are authentic and deeply felt.August 04, 2017
The deeper Some Freaks wades into what becomes a series of sadistic and masochistic humiliations, the more McDonald's film begins to feel schematic.August 02, 2017
McDonald's point, that we're all freaks, or none of us are, doesn't deliver complete satisfaction, but it's a nuanced and pointed statement that lingers long after the end credits stop rolling.July 20, 2017
Brittle and beautifully-acted and cleverly written "find your tribe" high school romance.August 04, 2017
Some Freaks explores the way in which those who are teased and tortured for being different can turn on other outsiders, and the emotional trauma of that poisonous isolation.August 01, 2017
Even when the script falters, it's saved by a small cast that nails the required flavours of social ineptitude, refusing to succumb to stereotype.August 04, 2017
The psychological acuity with which [director Ian MacAllister-McDonald] delineates his characters more than makes up for [the film's] relatively minor lapses.August 03, 2017
All the actors are good, but Harrington is remarkable. It's not just the physical changes in her character, but the genuineness with which she inhabits her.August 04, 2017
Ian MacAllister McDonald's Some Freaks captures high school/college agony without transmuting it into thank-God-we-survived-it nostalgia.July 31, 2017
Playwright Ian MacAllister-McDonald's debut feature is a refreshingly grounded, unsentimental yet empathetic slice of D-list teenage life that goes a bit overboard in its final act.