A wealthy girl comes to vacation and befriends a townie with issues. They spend most of the time partying, drinking and hanging out with boys. An incident happens, and they struggle to over come it and it ends with a very unrealistic ending. A pretty boring and pointless movie.
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zack_gideon11 August 2022It's a great first hour of character building and acting. Super enjoyable drama and coming of age story. Once they introduce the lady detective the movie turns into a flaming pile of poop.
Why do writers want to force emotion and drama and use bad premises to do it. It's just crap man. The 2 lead actors are great and the first hour is also, but the last third ruin the entire movie and I can't give it a good rating. The end. -
cjonesas3 June 2023A complete nothingness of a movie with nothing to root for, nothing to remember besides very dark screen at night and bright one at day with sad, sad, sad faces. It's not even depressing, it's a compote of psychology, girls in their twenties who look like thirties and so much slow-paced edited cuts that after a while you just see the colors of the photographies, their clothes, furnitures, asphalt and trees.
Glad that it wasn't made as a mini series.- Screenplay/story: 3
- Development: 6
- Realism: 4.5
- Entertainment: 2
- Acting: 4
- Filming/photography/cinematography: 4.5
- Visual/special effects: 4
- Music/score: 5.5
- Depth: 5
- Logic: 4
- Flow: 1.5
- Drama: 2
- Ending: 1.
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WankerReviews2 October 2021The movie is boring with underwhelming characters for the first 70 minutes. It's repetitive and all they do is drink, laugh, hangout, and talk. It doesnt start getting good until the detectives arrive. I didnt like the ending because to me it was unrealistic. I dont believe they would have just dropped the investigation, especially since the story emily told seemed suspicious. The guy that tried to rape you, magically gets into a car accident right after? Plus law enforcement doesnt generally sympathize with rape victims, which would entice them to look into the case even more.
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coralaurora4 October 2020I though the movie was good. Decent plot line and edge to it. The writers could have done better to explain what was actually happening vs what the characters believed and knew. But the actresses played it well and if you pay enough attention yourself it's easy to get it.
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AnnPanders27 April 2023This movie started off okay, but then we were treated to an hour or more of two 15 y/o's drinking, talking about losing their virginity and flirting with boys. I was waiting forever for this "mysterious murder" and I admit the first time I tried watching this, I fell asleep. I missed the murder so when the credits started running and I woke up I rewound it back to when I fell asleep and started again. So, yep, more drinking, more sex talk, and for the life of me I still didn't see a murder, just that the guy somehow died and they tried to cover it up. It was filmed so dark-lit I couldn't tell what was going on. Then all the flashbacks out of nowhere to the point I didn't even know what I was watching. Very poor editing. And then the ending was so anti-climactic it kind of made me angry for wasting so much time on this. I'd skip this one. There is NO murder mystery, no twists, no interesting change of pace. Just an hour and a half of BORING.
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ferguson-629 September 2021Greetings again from the darkness. We've seen movies where the seasonal residents interact with the locals, and often the class differences come into play. The term for northerners who head south for the winter is 'snowbirds'. In the Hudson Valley, we learn the 'townies' have a nickname for the rich folks who come for the summer ... 'Joy Riders'. This is the first feature film from writer-director Rebecca Eskreis, and she displays a real feel for the contrast that exists between these two groups.
Madelyn Cline (BOY ERASED, 2018) stars as Emily, one of the wealthy 'joy riders' who befriends local townie Sammy (Sofia Hublitz, who is so good as the daughter in "Ozark"). For no good reason, other than Madelyn's boredom, the two girls become friends. They hang out, play tennis, and have lunch together. One night they are at a party and things go bad with Sammy's creepy stepbrother Travis (Joel Allen, THE PURGE, 2019). The event not only tests the friendship of Sammy and Emily, but also reveals character and secrets from the past.
The film opens with a cool shot of Hudson Valley, and in fact, cinematographer Greta Zozula does a nice job through the entire film. As you would expect with teenagers, things get complicated, and the class difference is only part of what makes the story and characters interesting. Supporting roles are filled by Lukas Gage ("The White Lotus"), Aimee Mullins ("Stranger Things"), and Shakira Barrera ("GLOW"), but most of the heavy lifting here comes courtesy of Ms. Cline and Ms. Hublitz, despite both being a bit too old to play teenagers.
Not quite at the level of THOROUGHBREDS, a similar movie from 2018, the film certainly proves Rebecca Eskreis is a filmmaker to follow. She understands small town dynamics, class disparities, and female friendships ... and does so in a way that's grounded and realistic. There is no staginess to this production, and we have a real feel for the characters almost immediately - a tribute to the actors and the script.
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yourmomisaman25 April 2022This movie is so stupid. It's supposed to be an intense thriller but there's not one plot twist, everything is so predictable. It starts off so slow and half of the scenes weren't even needed then some dude randomly gets killed by a weak punch or something which makes no sense and they keep showing a bunch of pointless flashbacks when I'm just curious about the present. The ending is just really dumb. They constantly change their stories but the police just don't question it at all. Overall this movie is very boring and dumb and I have no idea why it's rated so high.
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paul-allaer29 March 2022As "What Breaks The Ice" (2021 release; 99 min.) opens, we are in Cold Spring Village, NY and summer has just begun, when the place receives all of the Manhattan families for the summer. A local girl, Sammy, strikes up a conversation with a Manhattan girl, Emily, and they hit it off. It's not long before they become BFFs, even though there is significant economy disparity between their respective families... At this point we're 10 minutes into the film.
Couple of comments: this is the feature-length debut from writer-director Rebecca Eskreis. (Even more noticeably, when the movie's end credits rolled, every single important position within the film's production and post-production is filled by a woman.) There are several familiar themes in this film, including the "coming of age" of two 15 yr old girls, the economic disparity between the 'poor' local girl and 'rich' out of town girl, etc. But the film does steer away from the predictable when about 40 min. Into it, there is an incident. OF course I'm not going to spoil what the incident is, but suffice to say that the impact on the two girls is enormous. Sofia Hublitz ("Ozarks"), who bears an uncanny resemblance to a young Laura Dern, is outstanding as Sammy. Madelyne Cline (as Emily) looks a bit too old for a 15 yr old character. But in the end, what kept my attention in this film is the wonderful story-telling by Eskreis. Check out the scene late in the movie when a local female cop relays a story from her youth to Sammy. Just beautiful.
When the end credit rolled, the film has a 2019 copyright notice. I'm guessing its release was delayed multiple times due to COVID. "What Breaks the Ice" recently started streaming in Showtime, and is now available on SHO On Demand and SHO Anytime, where i caught it the other night. If you are in the mood for a coming of age story that comes with a different twist, I'd readily suggest you check this out, and draw your own conclusion. -
jessmariano25 April 2022Bro this film is so bad💀 it takes so long to get into the plot. All we see happening is them talking abt sex and drinking. Someone died and the detectives dropped the case after like 2 days? Emily and sammy changed their story like 15 times and they're gonna believe whatever they say? This movie is butt.
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clarammasters4 October 2020I saw it at the Woodstock Film Festival premiere tonight and was not disappointed. I, too, was an extra in the film (since I worked at one of the locations it was filmed) so I'm a bit biased, of course, but I thought it was so well done. I loved it. The cast, the shots of the Hudson Valley, and the story were compelling, beautiful, and heartwrenching. Thank you to all involved - I'll always have fond memories of you shooting the film at my workplace and then finally having a chance to see it two years later. Congratulations!
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A_Different_Drummer2 October 2021Writer/Director Rebecca Eskreis set out to leverage a suspense tale off the well-worn townie-vs-tourist theme, and pretty much succeeds. In a period where all the A-listers are now working in the streaming world, competent little films like this one are no longer quite as common as they used to be, with "new lows" being set daily in the indie world. Not only do the two young leads work well together, but Hublitz (of Ozarks fame) shows an authenticity that reminds one of a young Laura Dern, with a very promising career ahead. Thumps up.
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ryleilove27 November 2022This was the slowest, most boring movie ever. Don't get me wrong, it had its moments and it comes together toward the end but for the first like 45 minutes it's nothing but the same thing over and over. I was so close to turning it off but I hung in there.
Honestly speaking, Catherine Curtin was miscast for this role. I absolutely adore her in OITNB but this was not for her. She didn't embody the role, and I didn't feel her as a mom (which I get the whole 90's housewife thing and how they were toward their daughters) but I didn't even get the typical wealthy white 90's mom from her. But what's done is done.
I can go into more about this but IMDB doesn't pay me to leave reviews so I'll stop here.
Three because it wasn't terribly bad and I appreciate the effort. -
gnyskws13 February 2022Expected this to be the truth will come out either from Sammy's guilty conscience or Emily telling the truth about the killing! Instead Emily concocts a lie about non consensual relations with Travis to her look like the victim! Very disappointing ending 🙁
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121mcv7 October 2021The 2 leads are very good actors , a decent plot and well put together .... I wouldn't be surprised if this wasn't based on true events .... no wow factor .... no fantastic them music.... and cinematography was ok.
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drenstere15 April 2024...for most of the right reasons, anyway. Strong casting of the leads, neither of whom I'd heard of but both had a chemistry with each other that built throughout the flick. Supporting cast wasn't bad. Wasn't really notable either but did the job. As far as rich-girl/poor-girl and tourist/townie angles this one tackles both in a believable way, and for the first half of the film things are assembled in a believable manner. Things start to go off the rails after that, and your suspension of disbelief will be tested. Where I think there is value to be milked is the depth of both lead characters and their idiosyncrasies. This is a story about lives crossing at an (in)opportune moment, so what if later in their (now) adult lives they meet again, and perhaps they have to deal with the things they know about each other?
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kevinleary2 October 2021The movie was surprisingly good. Refreshing to watch something new after the pandemic binge watching. Don't hate the 90's throwback.
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carriesiegel-7907713 October 2021I found this movie to be heartwarming, thrilling, and sad at times. It was full of twists and turns. It truly delineates the bond between girls, and how quickly a friendship can both grow and dissolve. It also brought back memories of what the 90's were like, too. It is a story about love, joy, despair, and loss. I loved that it allowed me to feel several different emotions for each of the characters. It was well-written, acted, and directed. I recommend this movie to anyone that has experienced conflicting feelings about friendship, family, and most of all, loss. I found it to be cathartic.
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ops-525353 October 2021By the the two female main actresses, in this teenage summertime drama, where rich mingles the ''poor ruralist'' in a place called yorktown, up northeast N. Y., a rural environment thats known for its beauty and silence and recreational opportunities, where the rich comes to their summerhouses to spend their summertime there.
So as a beautiful friendship blossoms between the rich and the poor, the stakes are high and the lingering feeling of independence hits both as love strikes a bolt in their relationship, and on top of that lots of alcohol and stuff makes decision making consequencefilled. An accident happens in affect with tragic outcome, and the balance between rich and poor is put to the test...
so if youre in your summer cabin for the autumn holiday, do consider using a time off to view this drama even though you might think this is just another teenage drama, but its a strong and relatable story that youll drag to your heart, because all the signs of teenage hormonal and experimental uproar and freedome seeking that all of us elders can reminisice and relate to, and the young ones of today might take notice from. Even though its a bit twisted in the end and there are some abrupt flashbacks and a lack of a smooth timeline to the story, its still hangs on to me ''the day after''.
So being named the guru, when we had an urdu/weak norwegian speaking doctor many years ago at my nursing home workplace, the grumpy old man thinks this is a wellmade, a high risk income project, that will be recognized for a great casting, lovely score selection ,by the mingling of two different universes of economy,emotions and family structures, and most of all a profound friendship, therefore a huge recommend. -
jaceypowers10 November 2021I was surprisingly drawn in by the plot and performances in this excellent indy film. It's set in the late 90's (which as a millennial always draws me in), and tells a really fascinating coming of age story.
Love a female driven narrative with a largely woman led production team, including the director. 10 out of 10 would recommend. -
fltrock10 June 2022I thought it was subtle & unexpected. Their bond was real & actually very loyal. The two leads were excellent & I look forward to more from both. I was confused for a bit, but it all came together in a really unique way. Also it was an authentic take on teenagers in general.
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ericbittman5 October 2021A really well written and directed film. Great acting, scenery, music along with a great story that kept you in suspense the whole movie.
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megelizbell1 October 2021If you love coming of age dramas or the nostalgia of the 90s this film is a must see! The dialogue and dynamic between Sammy and Emily is authentic, I was pulled right into the story. As things get complicated between the two, you see the class difference between them really bubble over. Overall, loved the film, and long live the butterfly clip!
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munshiashiq3 October 2021I love this tv series All of the cast did an amazing job.