Amy (2001)
Um…I'm affectionate toward fragments of this film, but it just doesn't hang together at all.
Little girl loses her ability to hear and speak for three years after witnessing her father's violent, though accidental, death. Her mother is an emotional wreck who's dodging child services wanting to take the girl out of the home. They move to a seedy neighborhood chock-full of characters where they discover that the girl can hear singing and verbalize through song.
The girl's voice is good -- almost creepily so -- as though she's just come off a run as "young Cosette." I just didn't know what to do with this movie. It tries, in turns, for broad laughs, traumatic sentimentality, dark danger, and bland psychological claptrap.
Worthwhile mostly for the musical flashbacks. Overall, however, a failure.
C
Little girl loses her ability to hear and speak for three years after witnessing her father's violent, though accidental, death. Her mother is an emotional wreck who's dodging child services wanting to take the girl out of the home. They move to a seedy neighborhood chock-full of characters where they discover that the girl can hear singing and verbalize through song.
The girl's voice is good -- almost creepily so -- as though she's just come off a run as "young Cosette." I just didn't know what to do with this movie. It tries, in turns, for broad laughs, traumatic sentimentality, dark danger, and bland psychological claptrap.
Worthwhile mostly for the musical flashbacks. Overall, however, a failure.
C
posted by MeMe | 7:15 PM
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