This reviewer subtracted 1 mark from the rating preventing a perfect 10 due to the fact the running time is only 59 minutes. This story is deftly crafted with artistic nuance. As the film starts the viewer will see that the main character is being played by a an actress with skills that only could have been attained at London's Royal Theater. The actress selection was done so to utilize the talents of a woman in her 30's to play a young girl 14 years of age, this was implemented for the purpose that only a highly skilled actress could meet the role's emotional and psychological demands. This riveting urban epic starts with our heroine falling in love and wanting more than the everyday modicum of societal expectations. She sees another path, the road heavily traveled, the road not taken, and her road, the road closed for construction. After dropping out from school, because who needs to learn math or science when the mystery of life awaits you. She starts a period of experimentation with altering her perception, she realizes this is the permanent state of existence she wants for herself. When she no longer can support that style of life, she decides to live the American Dream and open a small business with plans of greatness and opportunity. Once in business she realizes that she will need to have help and her business suffers growing pains. Then as in life when all doors shut, a window of opportunity opens and she enlists the help of some nice chaps who are motorcycle enthusiasts. What is a great story without tragedy?
In the end she finds that the world isn't ready for her dreams and she is arrested for breaking the norms of society, but then is forgiven when she promises to conform to societies wishes and at the end she is reunited with her family. Now others may see this movie as just a story of a young girl with a lousy boyfriend who whores herself off for drugs, becomes a junkie and then ends up as saddle trash for a bike gang all told in an ABC after school special format, but I see a story of the every woman and the soul of the "Feminine American Experience." Not for shirkers, you really have to work to make it through this film, but only great things come from hard work.
In the end she finds that the world isn't ready for her dreams and she is arrested for breaking the norms of society, but then is forgiven when she promises to conform to societies wishes and at the end she is reunited with her family. Now others may see this movie as just a story of a young girl with a lousy boyfriend who whores herself off for drugs, becomes a junkie and then ends up as saddle trash for a bike gang all told in an ABC after school special format, but I see a story of the every woman and the soul of the "Feminine American Experience." Not for shirkers, you really have to work to make it through this film, but only great things come from hard work.