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Set in Los Angeles, the film tells the story of 15-year-old April (Willa Holland) who falls in with a group of other teens who are trying to fulfill their dreams. The black widow in the web is the sexy, pot-dealing Sally.
A bit like Robert Altman's Short Cuts (1993), taking a look at a cross-section of Los Angeles characters, though it runs less than half the length and, conversely, half the depth.
If we're meant to take these threads as a tapestry of L.A., then Freeland clearly needs to stop watching Robert Altman DVDs and go outside to see what the real world is actually like.
Sophomore writer/director Freeland doesn't quite feel like the host of this particular "garden party," but rather like the party's Sabrina, secretly spying from the sidelines.
A low-rent answer to Robert Altmanâ(TM)s Short Cuts.
July 11, 2008
AV Club
It's a production in search of a movie.
July 10, 2008
MovieFreak.com
The result is a movie impossible to pigeonhole and one even more difficult to describe, and to say there hasn't been anything else quite like it this year certainly wouldn't be a lie.
This ensemble piece works if you know Los Angeles. After all, it's very possible for a homeless kid, pot-smoking Realtor, young model and a number of perverts to cross paths in that town.