Cracks is a routine girl's-boarding-school melodrama tricked out with glossy production values. Good cast, beautiful location setting, and a trite, trashy script that exploits the usual salacious imaginings about all-girl schools and the women teachers there.
If you dumped Maedchen in Uniform (the 1950s Lilli Palmer version), Lord of the Flies, and Schoolgirl Capers into a blender and hit the "puree" button, this film is about what you'd get.
It's too bad that such fine young actresses as Maria Valverde and Juno Temple submitted themselves to this degrading exercise. And isn't Eva Green simply the reincarnation of Joan Crawford? Those eyes, how familiar they seem....
If you dumped Maedchen in Uniform (the 1950s Lilli Palmer version), Lord of the Flies, and Schoolgirl Capers into a blender and hit the "puree" button, this film is about what you'd get.
It's too bad that such fine young actresses as Maria Valverde and Juno Temple submitted themselves to this degrading exercise. And isn't Eva Green simply the reincarnation of Joan Crawford? Those eyes, how familiar they seem....