good back-story, and good acting

It's an amazing and heartbreaking story.

Strong acting helps the film overcome an uncertain premise and create characters that hold our attention absolutely.

This movie tries so hard to be funny, yet it falls flat every time. Just another example of recycled ideas repackaged with women in an attempt to appeal to a certain audience.

If you're like me, a lover of the cast and/or indie films themselves, you might be able to sit through this film. But if you aren't a fan of either, and take an interest in this movie based on the cover and description, you'll most likely be disappointed. Even I wasn't exactly blown away, which is one of the first time's I can say that after viewing a film with Brad Renfro in it.Tart tries to add some interesting sub-plots to the otherwise overused plot (awkward, unpopular teenager wants to change her life, joins new crowd, falls in love, new crowd and new boyfriend turn out to be bad people etc.) with things like Cat, the main characters (played by Dominique Swain), younger brother being a 9 year-old hypochondriac, Cat's father being Jewish (one of Cat's "new friends" is anti-semantic, another thing that just pops up out of nowhere then goes away) and all these other new girls among the popular crowd just kind of come on to the scene without a really good introduction (with the possible exception of Eloise, played by Lacey Chabert). Another problem is the lack of character development. One minute Cat is shy and set against doing any of the "bad stuff" the popular kids do, another she is at a ball with her love interest, William (Brad Renfro) suddenly getting, high, drunk, and losing her virginity. Everything after that film is sped up and not very thoroughly explained, like William suddenly starts rumors about her and leaves her, all the girls (who are basically all clones of each other, plus Mischa Barton with a British accent) stop talking to her, and suddenly there's about twenty minutes left of this film. How is everything going to be explained by then, you may wonder. well, it's not.Instead, it just ends with Cat rekindling her friendship with Delilah (Bijou Phillips) her jagged, but one true friend who she ditched at the beginning of the film for the popular crowd, then it follows Delilah catching William in a compromising position with a man in the woods, and is soon after murdered for her remarks. I guess this was the director, Christina Wayne's attempt at a big "twist" ending, but instead it's just frustrating that the entire movie is wrapped up on that note, and the ending is just Cat having a loving moment with her mom, who she had spent the entire movie arguing with.That being said, I could still bear to sit through this film again, but if you've seen just about any other works of Renfro, Phillips, or Swain, this doesn't compare.

Some girls just wanna have fun. Some girls just want some attention. Christina Wayne writes and directs this gritty drama that indirectly ends a small-time, but expensive crime wave. Cat Storm(Dominique Swain is an attractive teen that craves more attention, love and respect than she is getting. Her best friend Delilah(Bijou Phillips)is expelled from an all-girls private school. Cat becomes infatuated with a boy that gathers before school at the same corner every morning. She finally gets William(Brad Renfro)to notice her; and he tries to initiate her to the rich set with its drugs and sex. Ms. Storm goes from outcast to being just tolerated. The handsome William is popular and easy to create trouble, which seems overlooked for he seems stinking wealthy...but no one seems to know how he comes about his money. Not actually a coming-of-age flick; but a look at how wealth influences teen behaviors. Also starring: Mischa Barton, Lacey Chabert, Jacob Pitts, Michael Murphy, Alberta Watson and Nora Zehetner, who I found the most impressive of the cast.

Basic structure of a story: Beginning, Middle, End.Sometimes this structure is played with, and we get Memento or Irreversible and the story plays backwards. Sometimes it's just not linear, a la Pulp Fiction. Regardless, they all have a beginning, middle and end.This is the first film I have ever seen that doesn't have an end.Beginning: Girl's best friend is expelled.Middle: Girl needs to cope without best friend.End: Non existent.Not that having an end would've saved this film, but at least it would have been complete.It's an exercise in apathy; we get a party-mix of characters, and they all turn out to be duds. Boring, vain, vapid and pallid imitations of people.And here's the action within this film: NOTHING HAPPENS. Nothing at all happens. Mischa Barton tries to talk with a plummy English accent, Dominique Swain whines a lot and Brad Renfro receives a blow job from some old guy. End of movie.By the time the credits rolled, I had a horrible feeling that many prisoners must feel: periods of time, those precious minutes of our life, have just been wasted.The only passable point (and that is a very emphatic ONLY) is Brad Renfro. He acts well. Lacey Chabert I tend to like, but no luck here. Due to good work in other films, I will forgive Mischa Barton this travesty, but I hope all cast members were slapped in the face for their involvement.Please, I implore you. Avoid. Don't fool yourself into thinking "I'll make up my own mind". My sister told me to never see this, and I ignored her, wanting to make up my own mind. That was a bad decision.I have never hated a film. There are many I don't like, but I have never hated a film. Until I saw this.

Spoiler i loved this movie, i taped it before i went to work, because i thought that i would watch something when i got home, seeing as how it sounded interesting. when i got back from work, i turned on the television and pushed play, and for the next hour and a half, i was blown away. i loved this move. it was incredible. i noticed how most of you seemed to think that it was quiet lame, but i fail to understand why. this movie is for everyone. it expresses the facet that we all as people go through changes, trying to find where we fit in and how our life is. i thought that this movie did a very good job of portraying that. i especially liked the fact that cat's best friend was murdered by her lover. she was so interested in having better friends, but then she realizes that she wants to be friends with delilah, and she cant, and now her lover is in jail for murdering her. you only want something when it's gone, and then it's too late.