Tart - Jet Set Kids
| Movie | |
|---|---|
| German title | Tart - Jet Set Kids |
| Original title | Tart |
| Country of production | USA , Canada |
| original language | English |
| Publishing year | 2001 |
| length | 88 minutes |
| Age rating | FSK 16 |
| Rod | |
| Director | Christina Wayne |
| script | Christina Wayne |
| production |
Patrick D. Choi , Nile Niami , Diane Isaacs |
| music | Jeehun Hwang |
| camera | Stephen Kazmierski |
| cut | Ray Hubley |
| occupation | |
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Tart - Jet Set Kids ( Tart ) is a film drama from the year 2001 . Dominique Swain played the leading role in the American-Canadian youth film . Christina Wayne directed and also wrote the script.
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The shy seventeen-year-old Cat Storm is in the eleventh grade of a private noble school in the USA. She wants to impress the other girls her age who come from the jet set , and especially boys. Her rebellious friend, Delilah Milford, who is already experienced in sex, is expelled from school for drug possession. Cat lives in difficult family circumstances. Her parents are divorced and have financial problems. Her nine-year-old brother cannot sleep at night for fear of illness and death. Some classmates incite Cat to steal cosmetics as a test of courage.
Drugs are used at one of Peg's parties. Cat refuses, but another party guest, William, does not. He and Cat get closer and soon she raves about the handsome boy, from whom she hopes for love and joy in her dreary life. Cat's mother, Lily Storm, rejects him because he smells of alcohol. Cat and William take coke together and sleep together. Cat reveals to him that her father is Jewish and that her family has changed the name Steinberg to Storm. It soon turns out that for William it was just one of many minor adventures. Cat is depressed, takes pills, drinks alcohol and remains lifeless. When William tries to remove her supposed corpse, she wakes up and throws up.
William lives in a broken family situation. His drunk father beats his mother. William drinks and drugs to help forget his problems. He is suspected of stealing jewelry from various people during his visits. But the porter is dismissed. Cat is getting more and more unhappy with her life. William is now with Peg. He told her about Cat's Jewish roots, whereupon her snobbish classmates want nothing more to do with her.
Cat flees to the country for a weekend with friends. At a nightly open-air party organized by Peg, she meets her friend Delilah who has been expelled from school. She feels left alone by Cat because she didn't even call when her father was arrested. But they make up again. Delilah surprises William during sexual intercourse with a man. In the forest he knocks the girl down in a verbal battle. She screams and threatens to report him. He then loses his nerve and hits her. Cat tries to find Delilah and calls for her, but then they all drive back without the missing woman.
Cat returns home to her mother, who was worried. On the news, Cat learns of the young girl's murder and Williams' arrest. She cries. Her endeavors to belong and escape the difficulties of everyday life have failed, as has her short love affair with William. What remains is the mutual love and togetherness to their mother and brother.
Reviews
- Cinema wrote that the film contained "a lot of chatter" but "little substance" .
Awards
- Dominique Swain was nominated for a DVD Premiere Award at the 2003 DVD Exclusive Awards for Best Actress .
Background information
The film was shot in New York City and Toronto from August 1999 . The budget was about $ 3.3 million.
In 2002 DVDs were released in German and English and VHS cassettes in German.
Web links
- Tart - Jet Set Kids in the Internet Movie Database (English)
- Tart - Jet Set Kids at Rotten Tomatoes (English)