All Over Me

1997 "In a world that expects you to fit in, sometimes you have to stand out."
6.4| 1h33m| R| en
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Claude and Ellen are best friends who live in a not-so-nice area of New York. They're involved in the subculture of 90s youth, complete with drugs, live music, and homophobia. All is changed one night when a violent and meaningless death rocks their lives.

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Nonureva Really Surprised!
Rpgcatech Disapointment
Glimmerubro It is not deep, but it is fun to watch. It does have a bit more of an edge to it than other similar films.
Fulke Great example of an old-fashioned, pure-at-heart escapist event movie that doesn't pretend to be anything that it's not and has boat loads of fun being its own ludicrous self.
Robert J. Maxwell Alison Folland is a young woman in a shabby section of New York who, after a tempestuous friendship with blond, impatient Tara Subkoff, and the murder of her gay buddy Luke, comes to terms with her own lesbianism and finds a happy and accommodating partner in Lucy, a band leader in a place that looks like the Swing Rendezvous in the Village used to look.Maybe that makes it sound more complicated than it is. It's really a rather simple movie, a little pedantic, a delicate character study rather than a mystery or action movie. Roughly speaking, all the gays are good and all the straight people are messed up. That's not too hard to follow, is it? Well, there are a couple of exceptions, but not many. Don, the Italian owner of the pizza restaurant where Alison and a gay guy both work, is straight but sympathetic. He's briefly in about four scenes. But it's hard to care about Don's character one way or the other because he serves up these GREAT pizzas (we only get a glimpse but can practically smell it) that make Domino's and Pizza Hut look like impostors. Try to get a pizza like that at four in the morning in northern Scotland! The rest of the straight guys are represented by the boyfriend of Alison's mother, who, in the absence of the mother, begins dangling his insinuations in front of the girl herself, who looks about 16. The straight adolescent goons who ball Subkoff when they feel like it and throw her out when they're bored with her are little more than perambulating pustules.Folland plays a dumpy adolescent who is shy but sensitive. In fact, however, she has a splendid face with modelesque features, fey and pixie-like. Her bone structure is pretty big though and, alas, the configuration of her weight suggests a strong genetic component. There won't be much she'll be able to do about it. It shouldn't matter, but it always does.Subkoff, her inconstant adolescent friend, has a more conventional and rather skinny figure but her voice, features, and demeanor are coarser than Folland's. She looks like Buffy the Vampire Slayer if Buffy were the vampire instead of the slayer. She has probably the most demanding role in the film and brings it off marvelously, a complex character very nicely rendered.The photography and location shooting are just fine. And the movie does middle-class urban dwellers a big favor. You know those young chicks you see on the streets? The ones with violently pink hair done up in a fashion resembling a tangled mop? The ones with maybe a jail-house tat around their biceps? With their clothes half drooping off and that silver ring dangling from their pipiks? Well, only some of them are dangerous stoners. Many of them are just playing with their appearance, as adolescents are want to do in all cultures, and they may be a little thoughtless but fundamentally decent people. I'd watch out for the guys though, especially if they're straight. They have a slight tendency to murder people they find offensive. At least that's what the film suggests.
buffyangelfanatic_80 I'm not usually one for this kind of film but I thought it was a really good show. I'm mean I love to watch IFC which is where I saw this movie at for the first time last nite, but some of the others i have watched on there have be a real flop, But I myself give All Over Me two thumbs up...
enigmatic_impulse I saw this movie yesterday and I am glad to say that I thoroughly enjoyed it. The characters were well-portrayed and everything was realistic. Being a teenager watching "All Over Me," it is easy to relate to what some of the characters are going through. I think it was a very good movie that should have gained more recognition.
kristenicole A story about two friends who grow apart as they grow up, this is an accurate portrayal of a part of life we can all relate to. We are all constantly faced with change, and here Claude and Ellen are dealing with just that. I believe it is true, that sometimes you just get stuck in the wrong crowd. Ellen turned down the wrong lane when she continued to see her drug user/loser/violent boyfriend, Mark. It is only too sad that she did not see the concern coming from her dear friend Claude, as well as all the other RED flags along the way that she is SCREWING UP! Alison Folland (Claude) did an excellent work of communicating her confusion and pain over her selfish (& stupid) friend, Ellen, and other losses she faces. Claude has to deal with the fact that she is in love with Ellen, even though she is not fully reciprocating...so this complicates matters even more for her - having to identify her sexuality and learn to deal with it. This is a great story of change - not predictible - you feel sad for Ellen, but glad that Claude finds in herself the strength to move on from her dependence on her friend and love, who only became a stranger. Anything like that ever happen to you? You'll like this.