‘Tis the season for films about badass teen girls. With Spring Breakers, the Bling Ring and now, Violet & Daisy, we are seeing movies about fairly vapid, but “hot” girls who turn to crime for trivial reasons. They want a spring break vacay, they want to wear fashionable clothes, and now, with Violet & Daisy, it’s ” a pair of gum-cracking teenage assassins who casually snuff out crime figures in New York City, distracted only by the fact that a concert by their favorite pop idol Barbie Sunday has suddenly been canceled. Determined to raise cash for some Barbie Sunday dresses, the duo takes on a new hit job, only to discover a kind of reckoning in the form of sad-sack shut-in (James Gandolfini) who is dying alone of terminal cancer. He persuades the duo to kill him out of mercy, prompting an odyssey of self-examination that catapults the junior enforcers into a world beyond Barbie Sunday and bullets for pay.
So, um, yeah.
Slashfilm got the exclusive.
This is the Geoffrey Fletcher who did Precious…between the poster and tagline this deserves to be alongside any bad film from the 70s/80s.
“So um, yeah”
I literally spit out my coffee when I read that! This film sounds like a convoluted mess. I love Saoirse Ronan and think she’s one of the best young actresses working today, but DANG she needs a new agent/manager. The Host and now this? Maybe this film isn’t as bad as it sounds, but the premise doesn’t really excite me. And she’s already played a teenage assassin (which she was excellent in).
And isn’t Alexis Bledel in her 30s already? That’s…strange that she’s playing a teenaged girl.
Did you catch Spring Breakers Sasha, I would be very interested in your take on it.
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I saw a few write ups on this film four years ago (2009). I forgot the site already.
For some reason, I’d like to see how Danny Trejo’s role will turn out to be, vs the two starlets. And hopefully the US-born (talented) Irish beauty (SR) could give some value-added service to — pun intended — this slash film of sort, too. [I’ll watch slash films if they show some promises to an extent *in mainstream context*. For good measure: love Scream franchise.]
[Blabbering alert] Bledel’s first name sounds Greek to me *not implying anything uncommon*. But her younger look, naturally to my mindset, makes me wonder if even in part she happens to be of East/Southeast Asian heritage — the point being, many […] Asian folks galore look much younger than they (we) are biologically. . . . Just being curious *rather a figure of speech; I mean, one could look younger save for any Asian kindred*.
Bledel’s father is from Argentina, her mother from the U.S. but raised in Mexico.
“immature”, thanks.
American beauty: she (Bledel), akin to many American girls *I guess*, has the best of both worlds – Mediterranean and (typically) Scandinavian (blue-eyed) physical traits.
(Not really trying to sound shallow; just going with the flow.)
Alexis Bledel will be playing teenagers when she’s 67.