Runaway girl

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Movie
German title Runaway girl
Original title Hick
Country of production United States
original language English
Publishing year 2011
length 99 minutes
Age rating FSK 16
Rod
Director Derick Martini
script Andrea Portes
production Steven Siebert
Christian Taylor
Charles DePortes
Jonathan Cornick
music Bob Dylan , Larry Campbell
camera Frank Godwin
cut Mark Yoshikawa
occupation

Runaway Girl (Original Title: Hick ) is an American independent film from 2011 . The film uses typical elements of the road movie and the coming-of-age film . Directed by Dereck Martini . The script, written by Andrea Portes, is based on Portes' 2007 novel of the same name. The main roles were taken on by Chloë Grace Moretz , Eddie Redmayne and Blake Lively , with Juliette Lewis , Alec Baldwin and Rory Culkin in leading roles .

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The film tells the story of Luli McMullen. The thirteen-year-old lives with her alcoholic parents in Palmyra, a small town in Nebraska . She likes to draw and visibly suffers from her chaotic family relationships.

Luli's thirteenth birthday is celebrated by her parents with drinking friends in a shabby bar, no one of the same age is present, Luli is bored. It is clear that the celebrating adults only use their birthday as an occasion to get drunk. Among the birthday gifts is a .45 Smith & Wesson drum revolver . Late in the evening there was an argument between the seriously drunk parents in the parking lot. The bartender Ray finally drives the girl home.

The next morning, Luli stands in front of a mirror in her room, mimicking Clint Eastwood in Dirty Harry with the Colt . Her self-confidence grows as she becomes aware of her feminine charms. When Luli hears noises from the first floor, she sneaks downstairs. There she meets Robert Lux, a traveling investment advisor. Luli playfully threatens him with the gun and then suddenly asks if he thinks she is pretty and would kiss her. Lux reacts evasively. When Luli's mother appears, it becomes clear that Lux has been expecting her, and they leave the house together with their mother's packed suitcases. Luli realizes that her mother is leaving not only her father, but she too. When Luli's father wakes up from his intoxication and asks about her mother, she tells him apparently indifferently that a man with a big car picked her up. Luli's father then gets into his car and drives away without a word. The thirteen year old girl is now on her own. Sadly, Luli's thoughts revolve around her life and her parents' failed marriage. She remembers her little brother who died a short time after he was born eight years ago. When Luli sees a report on Las Vegas on TV , she decides to go there and fish a rich man. Using a wall map, the thirteen-year-old plans her route and draws up a list of pros and cons for the trip. She even calculates that she might die during this trip. Nevertheless, Luli packs her bag and leaves her parents' house, dressed a little too provocatively, equipped with cash and a revolver.

After Luli has been walking for some time, a pickup driven by former cowboy Eddie Kreezer stops and takes her away. Luli notices that Eddie has a stiff leg. He tells her that he had an accident at the rodeo. After a few hours of driving, the two of them fight, in which Luli insults Eddie as a cripple, whereupon he throws her out of the car. Luli moves on alone and sleeps on a bridge along the way. There she meets the cocaine addicted con artist Glenda. When she asks where she is from, Luli replies with "Paris, France". Glenda knows that Luli is a runaway, but she takes her part of the way with her. Glenda's presence is good for Luli, she even builds friendly feelings towards her. When Luli tells Glenda about her encounter with Eddie, she is concerned. Glenda mentions to the girl that there are people that girls like her should better avoid. However, the thirteen-year-old does not understand the meaning of these words. Luli tries cocaine for the first time with Glenda. Shortly afterwards they both raid a gas station. Luli simulates an epileptic seizure. While the older gas station tenant tries to help her, Glenda clears the cash register. However, the tenant unexpectedly suffers a heart attack . While that doesn't bother Glenda, Luli reproaches himself and persuades Glenda to call an ambulance.

Despite her criminal streak, Luli admires the self-confident Glenda, which harbors the risk that Luli also slips into criminality. Their journey continues through rural America and to a bowling alley, where Glenda meets a young boy who appears to be her son. In a parking lot they come across Eddie, who says no to Luli's question if he is following her. Eddie is friendly to Luli and emphasizes that they just got off to a bad start.

Sometime in the course of their trip, Glenda and Luli arrive at Lloyd Nash's, with whom Glenda is obviously dating. Lloyd is, it seems, wealthy, but his demeanor does not suggest anything good. In Lloyd's house, Luli surprisingly meets Eddie Kreezer again, who has been hired as a henchman there. Luli reiterates her accusation that Eddie was following her. Surprisingly, Glenda throws in that Eddie was more likely to have followed her. The thirteen-year-old doesn't understand this allusion either. An argument about long drinks made by Eddie leads to Eddie having to remix the drinks. When he fetches ice cream from the kitchen, he secretly urinates in the drink intended for Lloyd, which shows his cunning and contempt for Lloyd for the first time. Lloyd does not notice and even praises him for the now excellent drink.

Eddie offers Luli to take her into town because Glenda wants to be alone with Lloyd for a while. Luli agrees. While Eddie disappears into a bar there, Luli is supposed to wait in the car. She passes the time by drawing. Eddie plays during which a stranger billiards , money is involved. Eddie's trick fails when Luli enters the bar and Eddie nervously fails the decisive push. He loses $ 200. While Eddie is talking to the stranger about settling his gambling debts, Luli goes to the ladies' room. Only a little later the stranger appears there, and Luli realizes that she should serve as a bet and pay Eddie's gambling debts with her innocence. But before a rape can occur, Eddie Luli rushes to their desperate calls for help, brutally beats his opponent and injures him badly. Luli is appalled by Eddie's violence and the fact that he approves of the man's possible death.

Later that afternoon, Eddie invites Luli for an ice cream. During this conversation they both get closer. When Eddie later started using crystal meth , Luli ran away in disgust. After Eddie caught up with her in his car, he got Luli to get back in, telling her that he had spoken to Glenda on the phone and told her that she wanted to meet Luli at Motel 6. He then bought her a new dress, which positively influenced Luli's view of him.

Once at the motel, Eddie rents a room with a double bed. While he is lying on the bed, Luli puts on her new dress in the bathroom. Coming out of the bathroom, Luli finds Eddie lying on the bed only in underwear. She speaks to him about the phone call with Glenda and gets the answer that Glenda is not coming because of Lloyd and that he should take care of her from now on. Although Luli doesn't quite believe him, she accepts his statement. When Eddie gets drunk, it reminds Luli a lot of her father. Dejected, she goes to the hotel pool, where she meets Clement Comfort, who is only a little older than her. He's at the motel with friends. He gets along well with Luli immediately. While they are playing cards together, Luli falls in love with Clement. Shortly afterwards, Eddie, furious with jealousy, appears, pulls Luli away and knocks the table over. Clement remains horrified.

Luli and Eddie leave the motel that same night. On the way there is another argument when Eddie Luli confesses his love. Inexperienced as she is, Luli lets Eddie know that she never wants to be with such a drunk cripple. When Eddie stops the car, Luli gets out and is pushed into a nearby field by Eddie who follows her, where he rapes her.

When Luli wakes up the next morning, she is tied to a bed in an unfamiliar room and has shorter, dark hair. A short time later Eddie enters the room. He brings her a bouquet of flowers, apologizes for last night and swears that nothing like this will ever happen again. Luli can then see her changed hair in the mirror. When she asks Eddie why she is tied up, she gets the answer that he would die if she left him. Then he loosens Luli's chains and promises to only tie her up when he is not there. Shortly afterwards, a man named Beau enters the room. From the conversation between the two of them, Luli can see that Eddie intends to stay longer. Luli tries to contact Beau, but realizes that he prefers to stay out of everything. He just advises her to be careful. However, Eddie noticed and tied Luli again before leaving the room.

Luli takes refuge in dreams of yesteryear, and the death of her little brother is not excluded. At some point she falls asleep. When she wakes up again, Glenda is in the room and confesses that she was Luli's age when she met Eddie Kreezer. In this very room, Eddie made her what she is today. She was a slave to Eddie for a while and was finally able to free herself from him after she became pregnant by him. She then went across the States, always knowing that Eddie would follow her. While Glenda releases Luli's chains, Eddie enters the room. He's drunk and playing around with Luli's revolver. In an argument between Eddie and Glenda, Eddie pulls the trigger, believing the Colt is not loaded. Glenda is fatally hit. Eddie is horrified, puts the revolver on Luli's bed and loses his composure. Luli takes the gun and finally shoots Eddie.

Jump in time: Luli is with Beau, who is preparing breakfast, while he explains to Luli that the two dead must appear as the result of a relationship quarrel. He mentions his sister in Los Angeles . He later suggests taking her to the bus station so that she can come home. Luli agrees, but calls home before leaving and has her mother on the line. At first she was relieved to hear from Luli, but already had excuses when it was just about picking up Luli from the bus. It dawns on Luli that nothing really has changed at home. Despite everything, she gets on the bus. While driving, she discovers that Beau has written down his sister's phone number and address in LA "in case she changes her mind". Luli simulates an epilepsy again to get the driver to stop the bus. After she got out, her plan is clear, she will try to find her way to Beau's sister in Los Angeles.

Production and publication

It is a Tiberius Film production. The budget of the film is over 7 million US dollar appreciated. Filming took place from late March to early May 2011 in the states of North Carolina and Nevada .

It premiered on September 10, 2011 at the Toronto International Film Festival . Director Derick Martini was nominated for a prize there. The film was shown on the Internet for the first time in the USA on May 11, 2012 and was also shown in limited numbers in various cinemas. In Japan it was released on November 24, 2012, in the Netherlands on January 10, 2013 as a limited TV premiere and in Sweden on September 17, 2013 on DVD. In Germany, the film was also not shown in cinemas, but had DVD premiere on August 1, 2013.

It was also marketed in Brazil, Poland, Portugal, Serbia and Russia.

Runaway Girl was released on DVD by Tiberius Film on August 1, 2013 (95 minutes).

Soundtrack / song list

The following music tracks play in the film:

criticism

Aside from Moretz's compelling portrayal, the Lolita film received mostly negative reviews. The plot was at times tough and had excessive lengths, it said.

On cinema.de the filmmakers were accused of “unbalanced narrative style, unbelievable staging” and “a lack of feeling for supporting roles”.

Film critic Roger Ebert complained about not having learned enough about the main character.

The film service describes Runaway Girl as a "not too deep, but entertaining social drama that, thanks to good actors, makes you think about an inhumane society".

Robert Cherkowski of Filmstarts wrote, “The most important thing about film [is] not the stars or a large budget, not even an accomplished technician or a perfectionist director. All of this is not a shame, but without an interesting story a good feature film [could] hardly be made ”. That is exactly the shortcoming of Runaway Girl , it lacks the "narrative line". It never becomes “really clear what the film is actually about and the atmosphere is also indecisive. While other unorthodox mixtures of genres and moods often have their own charm, this tragic comedy is just half-baked. ”The conclusion was: 'Runaway Girl' is neither fish nor meat and, despite the prominent cast, is largely free from tension and emotion and joke there.

Also Cinema saw the similar and ruled: Chloë Grace Moretz, [...] "suffer the trauma of incipient sexuality has (te)" the previous already in two films, shines in Hick as "by their hormones and a ruthless environment bullied child-woman. But as much as Moretz lives out the tour de force of her character, she can't do anything against the unbalanced narrative style, just as little as against Martini's staged unbelief and his lack of feeling for supporting roles. Whether Blake Lively as the drug addict wreck Glenda or Eddie Redmayne as psycho cowboy Eddie - rarely has one seen a film in which important characters were so interchangeable and meaningless as here ”. Conclusion: "Thriller drama about a lonely child woman, played in a disturbing way, but told far too tenaciously."

The verdict on Pieces of Emotion read quite differently , where it was said that the plot “owed” a little in some places, so that the flick could “by no means be considered a masterpiece”, but only a “very good independent film ". However, “the background music, which was kept in the appropriate country music style”, and the “prevailing atmosphere” were captivating. The acting performances were apostrophized as "grandiose acting". Chloë Grace Moretz has delivered the "best performance of her entire career" so far. Eddie Redmayne was certified as an outstanding achievement, Blake Lively and Alec Baldwin could also have convinced. The conclusion was that the film was “great”, had “a lot of heart” and was “taking the risk of experimenting”.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Runaway Girl production dates in the IMDb
  2. ↑ Runaway Girl filming locations in the IMDb
  3. ↑ Hick at allocine.fr (French)
  4. ↑ Runaway Girl DVD (cover picture: Chloë Grace Moretz)
  5. ↑ Hick soundtrack for the film at soundtrack.net (English). Retrieved September 9, 2016.
  6. ↑ Runaway Girl on cinema.de
  7. ^ Runaway Girl Roger Ebert's film review at rogerebert.com
  8. ^ Runaway Girl on Filmdienst.de
  9. ^ Runaway Girl review by the Filmstarts.de editorial team at filmstarts.de
  10. ↑ Runaway Girl - Chloë Grace Moretz (“Kick-Ass 2”) as a runaway on the way to hell at cinema.de
  11. ↑ Runaway Girl (OT: Hick): A genre mix with Chloë Grace Moretz ( Memento of the original from September 15, 2016 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link has been inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. at piecesofemotion.de. Retrieved September 9, 2016. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / piecesofemotion.de