Steve Collins
Human lives grappling with all the flavors of exstential despair intersect in a deadpan collage of comic suffering.
Children and nature shine in this melancholy love story about Johnny, a male nanny who tries to win back his girlfriend after she takes up with a man who looks just like him. The film tracks the growth of the relationship over four seasons in New England, as Johnny’s emotional problems sabotage his attempts to put together a family like the one he takes care of. A drama with the humor of spring and the sorrow of winter, YOU HURT MY FEELINGS speaks with the honesty of a child about people struggling to let go of darkness and find love.
Mercenary John Seeger is one of the best in the business. John and his crew battle some soldiers on Galmoral Island in Southern Africa as they're trying to rescue the French Ambassador -- there's a coup going on. Some of John's soldiers unload their machine guns into the Ambassador and his family, blowing the mission and getting his best friend Radio Jones killed. He heads back to the US and visits Radio's wife Shondra to tells her the news, and then promises that he'll take care of her and her son Eddie. But shortly after he makes that vow, Shondra and Eddie get kidnapped.
Gretchen has bigger problems than abysmal fashion sense: She's 17, painfully awkward and stuck in the most unforgiving place on earth - high school. When her obsession with school bad boy Ricky gets out of hand, her mother sends her to an emotional treatment center to recover. She has to travel elsewhere, however, to truly begin to understand why she fixates on the wrong kind of guy.
An awkward teenager wrestles with whether or not to let her boyfriend go up her shirt.
'The Secret Life of Girls' is a free-form documentary that follows a year in the life of two little sisters growing up against the backdrop of the changing New England Seasons. Told entirely from a child's perspective, the film puts a microscope on the small obstacles of youth, allowing us to see the beauty of everyday struggle. This big film about small things, reveals children to be little warriors, fighting for growth, experience, and the discovery of life's mysteries. For the brief course of the film, we are allowed to join them and get lost in the world of the senses.
