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	Taylor Kinkead	Evelyn
	Chris Lowell	Principal Burke
	Kiah McKirnan	Jonquil 'Jonny' Baptiste
	Vic Kuligoski	Kit
	Tim Hopper	Gene Baptiste
	Alicia Silverstone	Hildie Baptiste
	Audrey Francis	Marcy
	Mia Park	Mrs. Danvers
	Ireon Roach	Elektra
	Casimere Jollette	Aviva
	Sasha Kuznetsov	Kirk
	Ilirida Memedovski	Avalon
	Avery Holliday	Poppy
	Josh Bywater	Officer Sterling
	Greta Stolte	Darby
	Maya Lou Hlava	April P.
	Melanie Liburd	Jean Baptiste

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Director	Jennifer Reeder
Writer	Jennifer Reeder
Producer	Adriana Banta, Derek Bishé, Gregory Chambet, Mary Kay Cook, Greg Gilreath, Emily Gotto, Trevor Groth, Adam Hendricks, Sarah Hong, Nicholas Lazo, Dimitri Stephanides, Samuel Zimmerman
Musician	Nick Zinner
Photography	Sevdije Kastrati

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My quick rating - 4.2/10. Just tried way to hard to be artsy. And the school culture they attempted to emulate just wanted to be Heathers mixed with The Craft so badly. This might have worked in their favor had it been done well and it was NOT. Writer/Director Jennifer Reeder does show a keen eye behind the camera for the proper angles and flow of scenes but she missed the mark in the story. A teen named Jonny, played by Avery Holliday, is shown more or less fending for herself in a home where she seems unwanted. I also have to add, that Holliday very much seemed bored in her performance throughout this flick. I don't know if that was by design or she just didn't have any enthusiasm for the movie as a whole. Moving on, she is sent to live with her Aunt and I was glad to see Alicia Silverstone pop up in a role that suited her fine even if she over-acted it a bit. There are plenty of strange visions and dialogue going on that is meant to draw you in however I found it like fluff, as I mentioned, trying to add artistic flair. Like the entire story, this is all just kind of swept under the rug and not explained at all. But the general idea is on Jonny's 18th birthday, she goes through some form of transformation which is called the Forevering which is a catchy title describing, well, you aren't really sure. Mimicking other's appearance, sort of, I don't know exactly what they were going for in these new "powers" that are bestowed upon her. The ending will not help at all in explaining them either, more or less adding confusion. But when a kid from school goes missing, she puts her Sherlock Holmes foot forward and vows to find the culprit. From there, it is just scenes that don't seem connected very well to the whole mystery of the young adult's disappearances and who may be behind it all. The movie is just stuck trying to be too many things at once, and not excelling in any of them. Is it about female maturation during childhood abandonment, or is this a revenge-type flick against male oppression? I may be reaching out on that or any of the many other things you could pick out as potential underlying themes here. It may just be a very mediocre fantasy flick about a supernatural sect of humans that come of age right around the time they can vote. And while it doesn't fail as many horror flix hitting the streaming bus have as of late, it still just left me shrugging. Oh well, it did look aesthetically nice but not something I would recommend. I am sure there is an audience for it though, just not myself.

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