In 1988, a teenage girl's life is thrown into chaos when her mother disappears.In 1988, a teenage girl's life is thrown into chaos when her mother disappears.In 1988, a teenage girl's life is thrown into chaos when her mother disappears.
- Director
- Writers
- Gregg Araki(screenplay by)
- Laura Kasischke(based on the novel by)
- Stars
Top credits
- Director
- Writers
- Gregg Araki(screenplay by)
- Laura Kasischke(based on the novel by)
- Stars
- Awards
- 4 nominations
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Molly Berg
- Secretaryas Secretary
- (uncredited)
- Director
- Writers
- Gregg Araki(screenplay by)
- Laura Kasischke(based on the novel by)
- All cast & crew
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Storyline
Kat Connors is 17 years old when her seemingly perfect homemaker mother, Eve, disappears in 1988. Having lived for so long in an emotionally repressed household, she barely registers her mother's absence and certainly doesn't blame her doormat of a father, Brock, for the loss. But as time passes, Kat begins to come to grips with how deeply Eve's disappearance has affected her. Returning home on a break from college, she finds herself confronted with the truth about her mother's departure, and her own denial about the events surrounding it... —Anonymous
- Taglines
- I was 17 when my mother disappeared...
- Genres
- Motion Picture Rating (MPAA)
- Rated R for sexual content/nudity, language and some drug use
- Parents guide
Did you know
- TriviaEva Green, who plays Shailene Woodley's mother in the film is, in reality, only 11 years older than Woodley.
- GoofsWhen Kat visits Theo's apartment the first time, Kat's beer bottle jumps between being on the table and being in her hands.
- Quotes
Detective Scieziesciez: Once there was this... obese man. Some sick fuck had doused him with gasoline and then lit him on fire. And by the time we got to the body, two days later, he was still burning.
Kat Connor: What?
Detective Scieziesciez: Guy had so much body fat he's like a human candle.
- SoundtracksSea, Swallow Me
Written by Harold Budd, Elizabeth Fraser, Robin Guthrie (as Robin A. Guthrie) and Simon Raymonde (as Simon Philip Raymonde)
Performed by Cocteau Twins and Harold Budd
Top review
2min out of 91
"Nice-to-watch-on-a-Sunday-afternoon-if you-don't-have-anything- better-to-do." kind of movie. I liked the photography, the soundtrack, and scenography, though. Not so much the plot which is a poor vehicle for what the central idea of the movie is or tries to be. The acting wasn't exactly Oscar material either, specially the girl playing Cat. I couldn't hate her and I couldn't feel any sympathy for her either. She was just annoying and that detracts a lot from the message that the film as a whole seeks to deliver. They could have cast a different actress who was able to add more depth to the character and not make it appear so trivial, Shailene Woodley just confused indifference with shallowness, two different concepts. The plot reveals itself early, no need to be particularly observant to imagine what could have happened and there are many obvious reasons for that, however the motive that set in motion the events resulted a bit less predictable and those turned out to be the only 2min out of 91min of film that I found somewhat interesting.
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- Dec 16, 2014
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- Language
- Also known as
- Білий птах в заметілі
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Box office
- Gross US & Canada
- $33,821
- Opening weekend US & Canada
- $6,302
- Oct 26, 2014
- Gross worldwide
- $469,701
- Runtime
- 1h 31min
- Color
- Sound mix
- Aspect ratio
- 2.35 : 1
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