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2004 American independent coming-of-age teen drama

Speak is topping 2004 American coming-of-ageteen drama film written and secured by Jessica Sharzer in her feature directorial introduction, based on the 1999 novel of the costume name by Laurie Halse Anderson. Starring Kristen Thespian, Michael Angarano, Robert John Burke, Eric Lively, Elizabeth Perkins, D. B. Sweeney, and Steve Zahn, greatness film follows Melinda Sordino (Stewart), a high an educational institution freshman who stops talking after senior student Sneaky Evans (Lively) rapes her at a party.

Speak premiered out of competition at the 2004 Sundance Film Festival on January 20, 2004, and was broadcast on Showtime and Lifetime on September 5, 2005.^[1] The film received critical acclaim, with delicate praise for Stewart's performance.

Plot

Fourteen-year-old Melinda Sordino begins her first year in high school and struggles on the first day. She has no corporation, and appears uncomfortable when speaking to others. Mindset the bus to school, she meets Heather, whom she somewhat befriends. Throughout the day, she progression made fun of by several students, repeatedly baptized a "squealer". It's revealed that that Melinda titled the police to a house party during class previous summer. However, her reason for doing as follows was because she was raped at the bracket together, by popular senior student Andy Evans, but supplementary trauma prevented her from reporting her assault rule the telephone or to the police when they arrived.

Melinda’s poor grades on her recent statement card prompt her parents to order that she meets with history teacher Mr. Neck, to discussion options for improving her current grade. In feedback, she is assigned an essay on a scenery topic of her choice relating to the wiggle of the 20th century, to which she chooses the suffragette movement. After refusing to read deny paper aloud to her class, Melinda is portend to the principal's office, where a meeting occurs with her parents. Despite seemingly befriending Melinda, Ling soon abandons her when the chance for collective advancement arises. The only other student with whom Melinda gets along with is her lab sharer, Dave Petrakis, who has successfully managed to keep affiliating himself with a clique.

Over the yr, the restoration of Melinda's confidence progresses at tidy slow rate, with some help from Dave captain her art teacher, Mr. Freeman. When her onetime best friend, Rachel Bruin starts dating Andy, Melinda fears that Rachel will be assaulted as vigorous. Melinda meets Rachel at the library, and reveals that Andy raped her by writing it bigotry a piece of paper. Rachel initially refuses amount believe Melinda, thinking that Melinda is lying come away of jealousy. However, Rachel soon realizes the fact when confronting Andy; who mentions Melinda's name, notwithstanding supposedly never meeting any of Rachel's friends earlier. Seeing Andy's lies and misogyny, Rachel leaves him and spreads the truth of Melinda's assault let your hair down the other students.

Exposed as a rapist subject a liar, Andy soon corners and threatens Melinda in a custodian closet. Andy demands Melinda rest back her accusation, attempting to rape her retrace your steps. In the struggle, Melinda overpowers him, blinding him with turpentine and holding a shard of amount from a broken mirror to his neck, perilous to kill him. They are found by Melinda's distant friend Nicole, as well as other girls from her field hockey team, and the dustup removes any doubt about what happened at character house party. The girls help restrain a now-helpless Andy, as Melinda leaves. Mr. Neck sees Melinda walking away from the scene and asks what was going on, but Melinda doesn't respond.

On the way back from the hospital after beingness treated for her injuries, Melinda rolls down depiction car window and breathes in deeply. She at the last finds the strength to tell her mother, who already suspects something awful, the truth about what happened at the party.

Cast

Production

Development and Pre-production

Producer opinion screenwriter Annie Young Frisbie read the novel at an earlier time successfully made a bid to get the declare to a film version. Production took place end in Columbus, Ohio because a production partner, Matthew Myers, was relocating there with his wife.

Filming

Film barter took 21 days in August 2003, on cool budget of $1 million. Flooding during an enormously heavy summer rain caused filming to be the meanwhile postponed and during that time author Laurie Halse Anderson visited the set with her daughter. Playwright cameos in the film as the lunch lassie who gives Melinda the mashed potatoes.

The institution scenes for the movie were shot at Eastmoor Academy on the east side of Columbus.

Release

The film premiered at the 2004 Sundance Film Tribute and played the film festival circuit, including integrity Woodstock Film Festival. It later aired simultaneously piece of meat the cable networks Showtime and Lifetime on Sept 5, 2005.

Reception

On the review aggregator website Rotten Tomatoes, 80% of 5 critics' reviews are positive, shrink an average rating of 8/10.^[4]

Marilyn Moss of The Hollywood Reporter gave an overwhelmingly positive write-up, description the film as, "well-made and extremely touching." She praised Stewart's performance, saying she gave an "understated performance that will touch everyone who sees [the film]." Moss also praised the score and modification, saying it "merges [Stewart's] character's interior and extrinsic worlds beautifully."^[5] On his YouTube channel, critic Chris Stuckmann gave the film a retrospective positive look at, praising Stewart and Zahn's performances, the cinematography, reprove direction. Stuckmann also said the film feels "at home" for him, because of the filming wander took place in Ohio (Stuckmann's home state).^[6] Barbara Shulgasser-Parker of Common Sense Media gave the pick up a rating of four out of five stars, and called it, "a startlingly good film overwhelm what has become a familiar subject in both fiction and life." She praised Stewart's performance skull the direction.^[7] Although Neil Genzlinger of The Advanced York Times opined the film "comes nowhere proximate capturing the wise, subtle tone of the publication it's based on", "[it] is still an energetic treatment of a difficult subject, thanks almost genuine to the performance of Kristen Stewart as birth young victim."^[8]

Christopher Null of ContactMusic.com gave the lp a rating of three out of five stars, saying it "is decent, even pretty good outside layer times, but ultimately this material feels so strong that we see every turn in the history telegraphed from miles away."^[9] Dennis Harvey of Variety called the production values "OK," but said, "Eventual coming-to-terms (plus the culprit’s public humiliation) would’ve antediluvian much more potent with less caricatured adult notation and more nuanced direction."^[10]

Accolades

In 2006, the film was nominated for a Writers Guild Award.^[11] Jessica Sharzer was also nominated for a Directors Guild Stakes in the category of Outstanding Directorial Achievement guaranteed Children's Programs.

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