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Sweet Thing (2020)

Drama | 91 minutes
3,24 48 votes

Genre: Drama

Duration: 91 minuten

Country: United States

Directed by: Alexandre Rockwell

Stars: Lana Rockwell, Nico Rockwell and Will Patton

IMDb score: 7,0 (1.505)

Releasedate: 22 October 2020

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Sweet Thing plot

Billie and Nico live with their father, so the concept of a peaceful family life is alien to them. The adults in their lives don't care about their limits and are constantly out of bounds. In an attempt to taste some freedom, Billie and Nico embark on an adventure.

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mrklm

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Billie [Lana Rockwell] and Nico [Nico Rockwell] have to contend with an alcoholic father [Will Patton] and a self-centered mother [Karyn Parsons]. The situation does not improve when father leaves the family to kick his addiction. Mother takes up with a guy [ML Josepher] who turns out to be much worse. However, Billie and Nico are not one to be fooled and with the help of Malik [Jabari Watkins], a boy they only met on the beach, they escape from their family. It helps that Malik has difficulty driving a car, that no one is surprised that a child is driving a car and that the children don't seem concerned at all about what happened. I challenge anyone who thinks that is not very credible to take in the lousy and forced happy ending.

The only explanation I can think of for the fact that this film is filmed almost entirely in grainy and chaotic black-and-white images is that screenwriter/director Alexandre Rockwell at least thinks of some semblance of variety with a few apparently randomly chosen color scenes. to be able to keep. In vain, because if the headache-inducing camera work isn't enough to make you close your eyes, there's always the lack of story to lull you to sleep.

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BBarbie

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Dark family drama about children who are essentially left to fend for themselves by their abusive parents. Every now and then, multi-colored light briefly glimmers on the horizon.

Writer/director Alexandre Rockwell staffs the cast with his entire family (wife, daughter, son) plus a friend. This ensures a positive result. His daughter Lana Rockwell in particular as the caring teenager gives a remarkable performance.

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Movsin

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Although the second part of the film, from the flight onwards, shows that children raised unworthily can easily turn to crime, this part, with the adventurous and then the sudden voice-over that deems it necessary to provide even more explanation, is much less strong than the first part, which is really much more appealing because of what the children have to undergo.

You can make the comment that a social government should have intervened much earlier and that seems true to me.

Good film that once again shows the sad family situations that occur in society.

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