Middle of Nowhere (2008)

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Movie
German title Middle of Nowhere
Original title Middle of Nowhere
Country of production United States
original language English
Publishing year 2008
length 95 minutes
Age rating FSK 12
Rod
Director John Stockwell
script Michelle Morgan
production Michel Litvak ,
David Lancaster
music Ferraby Lionheart
camera Byron Shah
cut Tom McArdle
occupation

Middle of Nowhere is an American film drama from director John Stockwell in 2008. The film is available on DVD since June 24 of 2009.

action

The 19-year-old Grace would medic and therefore, after her high school - completion of study. However, she is told that she has high debts and that she cannot get a loan to finance her studies. The debt of over 30,000 dollars while running on her name, but were caused by her mother Rhonda. Which closed after the suicide of her husband and father Graces different on Grace's name credit agreements with credit cards , and hopes to pay off the debt with her daughter. The severance payment she was hoping for from an upcoming court case is not paid, so that Grace is left with "her" debts. Her mother doesn't care, however, as she has big plans for her younger daughter Taylor: The beautiful girl should attend a modeling school. For Rhonda even the way to her sister is not a shame, from whom she wants to borrow money, which she had turned down shortly before for Grace's studies.

Meanwhile, Grace tries to make money in a swimming pool . She would have to pay $ 12,000 by the end of the summer not to lose her registered place to other applicants, she told a friend. Young Dorian follows the conversation and offers Grace a deal: she drives him in her car every now and then to see different people and he pays her for it. After receiving $ 100 for a tour, she figured out the point of the rides: Dorian deals marijuana . At first she is appalled, but when he announces that she could earn $ 12,000 by the end of the summer, she agrees. Business is flourishing.

Things get complicated when Grace meets smart Ben and falls in love during a drug delivery. She neglects business with Dorian, who now has to go on his tours alone. He takes 15-year-old Taylor to one of those parties where he sells drugs, who doesn't want to stay home alone. At the party, she drinks so much alcohol that she disappears into the bathroom with a strange man, drunk. Dorian can prevent worse. At home, Taylor reveals to him and Grace what she learned from her aunt: Rhonda had an affair with her husband's brother, Taylor's and Grace's uncle. When her father found out, he committed suicide. Grace finds numerous bills in her mother's closet, showing that Rhonda secretly spent over $ 60,000 that her father had saved for his daughters' education. The relationship between the daughters and their mother is permanently disrupted.

Dorian has problems too. He was adopted by his wealthy parents , but lives as a kind of rehabilitation measure with his strict uncle, where he is given one last chance to get off drugs. When the uncle finds marijuana in his room, Dorian has gambled away this last chance and flees. On the way, he is beaten up by the man who tried to seduce Taylor at the party and is eventually found by Grace and Taylor. Neither of them can continue the drug business. Grace, who shared the profits from the deals with Dorian and so far, with 7,000 dollars, has not saved the necessary 12,000 dollars, receives half of the profit from Dorian. He uses it to buy her car from her. While Grace can now study, the car is Dorian’s opportunity to escape his life. He drives one last time to his adoptive parents' house, rings the doorbell and hears his mother asking in vain who is there.

criticism

“[...] 'Middle of Nowhere' is a magical coming-of-age drama that boasts two highly talented stars of tomorrow. It's just a shame that no distributor has mustered enough courage to give the film at least a small theatrical release. "

- Jens Hamp

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Review on Filmstarts.de , accessed on January 6, 2010.