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A young music journalist's dark memories are awakened when he goes to interview a female rock singer, and both are forced to confront troubling secrets from their pasts.A young music journalist's dark memories are awakened when he goes to interview a female rock singer, and both are forced to confront troubling secrets from their pasts.A young music journalist's dark memories are awakened when he goes to interview a female rock singer, and both are forced to confront troubling secrets from their pasts.
- Nominated for 1 Primetime Emmy
- 1 win & 6 nominations total
Aria Alpert Adjani
- Violet
- (as Aria Alpert)
Justin DePrume
- Young Dan
- (as Justin De Prume)
Brittany Renee Finamore
- Young Sherry
- (as Brittany Finamore)
Jesse Gelaznik
- Magazine Intern
- (as Jessie Gelaznick)
- …
Francis T. Hickman Jr.
- Cape Canaveral Police Officer #2
- (as Frank Hickman)
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- TriviaThe film is based on Allison Anders' personal experience when she was raped at the age of 12 and then brutally manhandled by a stepfather until she ran away from home at the age of 17. The rape scene in the film was actually filmed in exactly the same house where Anders was raped as a child.
- SoundtracksTheme from Things Behind the Sun
Performed by Sonic Youth
Written by Kim Gordon, Lee Ranaldo, Thurston Moore, Steve Shelley,
Jim O'Rourke
Published by Sonik Tooth
Administered by Zomba Songs, Inc/Field Code Music (BMI)
Courtesy of DGC Records
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Great Star Performance, Film Doesn't Work As A Whole
The good parts of this movie, apparently inspired by a true story, makes me wish it was better as a whole. Kim Dickens is great as a troubled singer still haunted by a gang rape as a teenager. Don Cheadle as her manager and ex-lover has stereotypical characteristics, but gives a very good performance (his final words and expression in the scene with the writer was classic). Eric Stolz is excellent as well. And, the scenes at the music magazine was interesting, if incomplete. The whole movie, however, also has an incomplete feeling to it. The passion and message is there, and the brutal honesty about rape and its effects on all involved valuable. Nonetheless, the movie drags too often and often feels incoherent. Also, the writer is a rather pathetic character, and I got tired of him mighty fast. A better script would have made this movie much better ... as is, it is a worthy misfire.
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- jmatrixrenegade
- Feb 15, 2002
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