Nayan Gough
A great movie, one of the best of this year. There was a bit of confusion at one point in the plot, but nothing serious.
Verity Robins
Great movie. Not sure what people expected but I found it highly entertaining.
Mandeep Tyson
The acting in this movie is really good.
Bambam38
I'm sorry but waiting 12 mins before the end for them for then to get together is just torture.
If you want to watch a descent lesbian love story stick to Desert Hearts ,Bound or Below her mouth (in that order is my preference) Don't waste your time on this one!
Ed Fulton
Why is it that too many Indie films and gay/les films shoot themselves in the foot when given any opportunity? If this film (and others of its ilk) are supposed to be an "answer" to 'Hollywood,' then the first place to start might be to avoid the hyper-simplistic characterizations so blatant throughout this film.The movie was pretty much well acted and well directed and produced, but the utter slackness in the script writing just blew all that away. Please, anyone could have come up with that "bad girl" character on the first try, likewise the Mother Superior, except that I don't think that anyone could have come up with such an inferior representation of the latter even in the first effort. At one point in the movie the M Superior physically indicates that she has carnal knowledge of the professor from some time ago. But she calls the police upon discovery of a likewise episode from that same person. Just leave out the scene of M Superior's affection towards the teacher by way of reminiscing and avoid the confusion. Or explore/expiate it, either way.The summary describes a girl "wise-beyond-her-years" connecting with a teacher who taught a class for high level students. So then, even having availability of the teacher's beach resort at their disposal (and alleged super smarts to begin with), these two protagonists chose that the disposition of their love affair occur right there in the dorm, where anyone could walk in at anytime. As was well pointed out throughout the entire movie.Right.Aside from the fact that this scenario should have taken place at a college or university so as to avoid advocating statutory rape, (to some of the other reviewers; paedophilia involves prepubescents, not the case here at all) I am just greatly annoyed at the typical Hollywood slackness of script writing in having the 'drama' in their movie based upon incredibly stupid and utterly inane actions of the protagonists. Even if this from a supposedly "different" movie.Because of the good production and decent acting (occasionally pretty good) and a decent story line otherwise, I might recommend a watch, and if you watch TV all the time, you might not notice the crash at the end as a crash.
TxMike
This movie is on Netflix streaming movies. How much one likes it depends on how much they sympathize with the situations these girls find themselves in.In California, Erin Kelly (about 24) is Annabelle Tillman, daughter of a state politician, and finding herself repeatedly in trouble. A high school senior, she gets sent to a Catholic all girls boarding school, even though she wears Buddhist beads around her neck. But her parents see this as her last resort, if it doesn't work out here then it is off to military school.Annabelle is coy about her sexual orientation, but it becomes obvious soon that she is attracted to her female English teacher. That is Diane Gaidry as Simone Bradley. We gradually find out that Simone has her own interesting past, she had been educated at that same school and her aunt, the mother's sister, is the nun in charge of the school. And her "best friend" had died some years earlier, and it appeared they were more than just friends.Now, Simone is dating a nice man who is trying to convince her to move away from her apartment in the school and in with him, as a prelude to their getting married. But is it clear she has very cold feet, she finds excuses to postpone the discussion. In her position she knows that she should NOT be in a lesbian relationship, a man is the right choice, but she cannot commit to it.Annabelle senses all this and is very assertive in letting Simone know that she wants to pursue something with her, even though Simone is old enough to be her mother. That is perhaps the part that I was most dissatisfied with in this movie, it didn't seem real that a 17 or 18 yr old girl would be that persistent and obvious in pursuing her teacher. In fact as I watched it unfold I would call it stalking. So while I don't give it high marks it was indeed interesting and for the most part situations were handled as they should have been.SPOILERS: The girls in Annabelle's sphere sensed something was up and, one morning when Annabelle is missing from breakfast a student alerts the nun, who finds Annabelle and Simone just putting on their clothes after a night together in Simone's room. The cops are called and Simone is hauled off. Surely she should have known a relationship with a student is off limits and in fact criminal. Many object to this ending, but to me it is the only one that made sense in today's world.
trisha1019
Loving Annabelle is a great movie! I think we all go through that when we are younger and older. Erin Kelly is so attractive. The passion between the two of them keeps you intrigued through the entire movie. I couldn't wait for them to kiss and the love scenes is right on. If we could feel that way every time, like it was the first!! The ending does make you want more but I think we can all use our imagination to put the ending that you would like to happen. My ending is they never loose each other. Their love is way to strong to let each other go. I pictured them both on the beach as in the movie and open to express their love.
