12 and Holding R
Do You Know Who Your Kids Are?
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DVD Details
- Rated: R
- Run Time: 1 hours, 34 minutes
- Video: Color
- Encoding: Region 1 (USA & Canada)
- Released: October 10, 2006
- Originally Released: 2006
- Label: IFC
Performers, Cast and Crew:
Starring | Conor Donovan, Marcia DeBonis & Linus Roache | |
Performer: | Jo Weizenbaum, Annabella Sciorra & Jeremy Renner | |
Directed by | Michael Cuesta | |
Composition by | Pierre Foldes | |
Director of Photography: | Romeo Tirone |
Entertainment Reviews:
Rating: B --
The film careens from crisis to crisis. Yet each time it threatens to spin out of control, [director Michael] Cuesta demonstrates a firm hand that keeps us leaning in with interest.
Atlanta Journal-Constitution
Rating: 3/4 --
Raw and unpredictable. It's also compelling.
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San Francisco Chronicle
Rating: 3.5/4 --
One of the most exceptional, down to Earth portrayals of childhood and adolescence in the face of tragedy I've ever seen...
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Cinema Crazed
Rating: 2.5/4 --
Flawed but compassionate study of kids struggling with grown-up issues without much adult supervison.
Denver Post
Rating: 3/5 --
The kids help get the film past its messy, low-budget look, aided by a strong ensemble of familiar adult faces.
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Empire Magazine
[An] intelligent and edgy story that allows believable characters and their interpersonal dynamics to come alive as sinister undercurrents ripple below.
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Film Journal International
Rating: 5/5 --
One of the films of the year. Unmissable.
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Product Description:
Director Michael Cuesta follows up his debut film L.I.E. with another harrowing coming-of-age tale in TWELVE AND HOLDING. Cuesta casts young Conor Donovan as his lead, with the impressive actor playing twins--the sociable athlete Rudy and the distinctly introspective Jacob. Joining Donovan in the cast are Jesse Camacho as Leonard, a paunchy kid reminiscent of Jerry O'Connell's Vern in STAND BY ME, and Zoe Weizenbaum as Malee, a quietly disturbed young girl with a fractured family life. The five 12-year-olds are close friends, but their lives are thrown into turmoil when a prank by local bullies goes horribly wrong and Rudy is burned alive in a tree house. As Jacob's parents fall apart at the news, the rudderless surviving twin realizes he can't rely on them for support, so he makes the surprising decision to make regular visits to the two brothers who killed Rudy as they languish in a juvenile detention center. Meanwhile, Malee copes with the tragedy by obsessing over an attractive older guy named Gus (Jeremy Renner) and Leonard gets on a health kick despite his overweight parents' protestations.
Cuesta's film draws on elements of similar genre favorites, not only STAND BY ME but Jacob Estes's MEAN CREEK and even the work of Todd Solondz and Gregg Araki. But TWELVE AND HOLDING is not a facile reproduction of other work; instead it's a startling kids'-eye view of poor parenting and woeful neglect. The four leads give astonishingly mature performances, and Cuesta manages to surpass his meagre budget by creating a stylistic tour-de-force that may leave anxious parents wondering what their kids are doing in their spare time.
Cuesta's film draws on elements of similar genre favorites, not only STAND BY ME but Jacob Estes's MEAN CREEK and even the work of Todd Solondz and Gregg Araki. But TWELVE AND HOLDING is not a facile reproduction of other work; instead it's a startling kids'-eye view of poor parenting and woeful neglect. The four leads give astonishingly mature performances, and Cuesta manages to surpass his meagre budget by creating a stylistic tour-de-force that may leave anxious parents wondering what their kids are doing in their spare time.
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