When an innocent young girl finds herself befriended by two sexy, uninhibited girls at a small-town bar, she discovers that they have more planned than just a party-and she's central to the action.
Acting
Carla Gugino's raw, unraveling performance.
Writing
Script that weaponizes audience expectations.
Direction
Krooth's refusal to make any character simply sympathetic.
Director
Caryn Krooth
Carla Gugino
Megan 'Meg' Harris
Aida Turturro
Helen Norwich
Catherine Dent
Lisa Heller
Christopher McDonald
Jack Carlson
Rya Kihlstedt
Patricia 'Pat' Long
Lorraine Toussaint
Carol Broker
Frankie Faison
Henry Broker
Anna Thomson
Alexandra 'Alex' Arnold
Robert Knepper
Freddy
Ellen Greene
Louise Smith
Larry Pine
Judge Hayfield
Richard Bright
Zack Brown
Donna Mitchell
Joyce
Peter McRobbie
Dr. Mancuso
Danny Aiello III
Kurt Arnold
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
Released the same year as the Clinton-Lewinsky scandal, the film interrogated whose sexuality gets policed and whose gets dismissed. It bombed commercially, perhaps because audiences didn't want this conversation.
Caryn Krooth, a documentarian turned feature director, shot the assault scene in one unbroken take to deny viewers the edit's relief. She wanted audiences complicit in their own voyeurism.
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