2012 · drama · romance
Electrick Children (2012)
Directed by Rebecca Thomas1h 35m2012
Rachel is a rambunctious girl from a polygamist colony in southern Utah. On Rachel’s 15th birthday, she finds a forbidden cassette tape. Having never seen anything like it before, Rachel plays the cassette tape, and finds glorious rock & roll thereupon. Weeks later, Rachel realizes a miracle has occurred - and the cassette tape must have something to do with it. She leaves her family and runs away to the closest city: Las Vegas. There she searches for the singer of the band on the cassette tape.
Our read: Electrick Children (2012) (2012) reads as a neutral, measured, inventive drama · romance entry — measured in intensity, intimate in scope, measured in temperature, ambivalent in outlook, with a strong directorial signature.
Neutral, measured, measured drama / romance, inventive in texture. Ambivalent, intimate, measured.
- measured
- inventive
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