The Little Girl Who Lives Down the Lane
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Movie Reviews of The Little Girl Who Lives Down the Lane
Movie Review: Scary stuff
Summary: 4 Stars
A very chilling portral by Jodie Foster. Great acting for a 14 year old. A scary movie almost in the genre of Alfred hitchcock--no demons coming out of the walls, no heads being chopped off but it will send chills up your spine. Well worth watching.Movie Review: "It's probably the almond cookies."
Summary: 5 Stars
Whether you are a fan of Jodie Foster, love films with only a handful of characters or just enjoy watching a really good old drama/mystery than this one is worth owning and having in your collection for future viewings. Jodie Foster plays thirteen-year old Rynn who hides the secret that she lives alone. Alexis Smith plays her nosy landlord Mrs. Hallet and Martin Sheen is her pedophile son Frank Hallet who the viewer will quickly begin to despise. Scott Jacoby plays her new friend/boyfriend Mario who helps Rynn keep her secret a secret. Mort Shuman is Mario's cop uncle who pays a few visits to Rynn's haven. With only 5 main characters and a few locations mostly at Rynn's home, much of this film focuses on character interaction and development. As you follow along, you find out why Rynn lives alone. What happened to her father? What happened to her mother? What happens when people find out Rynn's secret that she slyly keeps hidden away? The sound and picture on the DVD is clean and crisp. No extras which is a shame because I have never heard Jodie talk about this film and it would be interesting to hear her thoughts on it. Jodie was a perfect choice for this film. Her character Rynn is a very intelligent young adult and it's fun watching her match wits with the people who are trying to expose her. I give this film 4.5 stars. If you enjoy this film, I also recommend Death and the Maiden which also includes a cast of only three people including Sigourney Weaver and Ben Kingsley and takes place in only a few locations. Much of that films focus is solely on character interaction and development as well and like this one, the suspense builds at a nice pace. There are a few people who gave this film 1-2 stars because it's wasn't a horror film. It's not trying to be a horror film nor do I believe it was ever advertised as one. Take it for what it is and you have a very enjoybable picture.Movie Review: Weird, but very captivating little film.
Summary: 5 Stars
Like has been said, not a horror picture, but a good one...whatever it was.
The weird 14 year old genius orphan of a poet child, her crippled Italian magician boyfriend, and the animal hating child molester and his a-hole mom they must do battle with.. It's just really out of left field, but some how it was pulled off and didn't seem totally ridiculous, great cult film type of feel.
Some good tense scenes, some fine acting by young Jodi Foster, and hey watching the film you would think martin sheen really was a child molester irl!
A good pick up in my book.
OH, I almost forgot the sound track... for shame. It sounds like it was wrenched from a cheezy 70 porno flick. When the tension hook comes in the form of "waka-chicka-waka-chicka" you know something has gone terribly awry. Try to cringe through it.
Movie Review: Playing House
Summary: 2 Stars
This 1976 Jodie Foster thriller was advertised as a horror film when it came out, but there's hardly any horror at all in it: it's more like a mystery, with the viewer waiting to find out why Foster's 13 year-old character (bizarrely named "Rynn") seems to live all alone in a large Cape Cod rented house, what she doesn't want anyone to see in her cellar, and why her father never seems to be in when neighbors come to visit. And come they do, again and again; even though Rynn is supposed to be a child genius (she studies Hebrew privately, read Emily Dickinson, and becomes the master of all sorts of outlandish skills central to the mystery), she never seems to get it into her head to lock her front door. Among her unwelcome guests include Alexis Smith as the bossy and anti-Semitic grande dame of the nearby town and Martin Sheen (!) as her loathsome son, a child moesltor who takes a fancy to Rynn and who devises a most repugnant (and absurd) way of killing Foster's pet hamster. More welcome is the very likeable Scott Jacoby as a handicapped teenage magician who comes to help Rynn with her quest to be left alone.
Some people remember this movie very fondly, and it's hard to figure out why. Even setting aside such strange period touches -- Rynn's horrible hairdo, the Moroccan caftan she likes to lounge about the house in, and the odd use of Quinn/Martin-styled electronic background scoring,-- the film is impossibly and fatally stagey, with 90% of the film's action taking place in Rynn's living room. Laird Koenig, who adapted the screenplay from his own novel, is not very graceful with dialogue, and the cast, despite their considerable talents, seem to be tripping all over their awkward repetitive accusatory lines. Foster is very appealing, despite this, and the role does make good use of her intelligent oddball qualities.
Movie Review: Creepy, gets under your skin.
Summary: 5 Stars
I never forgot this movie the first time I saw it as a preteen. It was CREEPY in a psychological way. How smart she was for such a young girl. Her calm demeanor, the way she could outwit adults by words, alone.
And to this day, whenever I see almond cookies or almond tea..I think of this movie, lol.
Unforgettable, chilling, a classic. Jody Foster was incredibly mature at that age to pull the character off, like that. THAT'S TALENT!