The 12 years old well-bred Lonnie meets the impudent Karen on the street. They spend some time together and Karen teaches Lonnie some of her favorite occupancies, like make-up, shoplifting, skipping school and lying to the parent about it, but confessing to the priest later. But Karen also learns some honesty from Lonnie. A film about social differences and growing up.
Acting
Rainbow Harvest's Karen—part Fagan, part fashion victim, all chaos.
Direction
Silver's debut captures summer's lazy menace with documentary patience.
Costume
Karen's layered black—mall goth before mall goth existed.
Director
Marisa Silver
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
This was Marisa Silver's thesis film at NYU—she's since become a novelist, and this remains her only feature.
Rainbow Harvest's Karen invented the 'cool weird girl' archetype that peaked with Heathers—note the identical name, identical black clothes, identical destructive charisma.
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