Storytelling

Storytelling

2001 · 87 min · EN · R · 6.5 (170 votes)
Dir. Todd Solondz · Starring Selma Blair, Leo Fitzpatrick, Robert Wisdom, Aleksa Palladino, Mark Webber, Paul Giamatti · Music Nathan Larson

From the director of Happiness and Welcome To The Dollhouse.

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College and high school serve as the backdrop for two stories about dysfunction and personal turmoil.

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This film feels like a deeply uncomfortable, yet strangely familiar, high school reunion. It captures the awkwardness of youth and the lingering effects of family dysfunction with a raw, unflinching honesty.

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