Dare (2009)
Genre: Drama
Duration: 100 minuten
Country:
United States
Directed by: Adam Salky
Stars: Emmy Rossum, Zach Gilford and Ashley Springer
IMDb score:
5,8 (4.666)
Releasedate: 13 November 2009
Dare plot
"Do something you're afraid of."
The film follows three very different teenagers during the last semester of school. There's Alexa, the girl with the good heart, Ben, the misfit who has doubts about his sexuality, and Johnny, who has money, looks good, but has a bad character. The three enter each other's lives, and mess things up together.
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Alexa Walker
Johnny Drake
Ben Berger
Ruth Berger
Courtney
Dr. Serena Mohr
Grant Matson
Dr. Kolton
Gabby
Josh
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Short filmmaker Adam Salky's feature film debut is a high school drama in which Alexa (Emmy Rossum) searches for life experience to give her virginal charisma a more villainous edge in the school play. Based on a short film by the same director, the film struggles to stretch its action to a mere 92 minutes.
The director somewhat addresses this problem by allowing ample space for introspection. Not a bad idea, of course, but for an interesting psychological analysis of the characters, it would have been better to introduce fewer stereotypical characters. Because the three main characters conform to the stereotypical overachiever, the stereotypical rebel, and the stereotypical outsider, attempts at depth remain mostly superficial. Instead of becoming more colorful, the characters become increasingly colorless.
Only the rebel (Zach Gilford) manages to make his character somewhat interesting by imbuing it with poignant vulnerability. The rebel occasionally steps outside his stereotypical role. The overachiever and the outsider do little more than evolve from sexual inexperience to hormonally driven experimentation. Still quite stereotypical, then.
Dare starts off fresh and unconventional. That freshness quickly fades as the characters and storyline develop with little interest. Ultimately, Dare made little impression.
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