Bill Sage, Catherine Keener, Charlie Hofheimer

Patty Vare has a secret she is hiding. And after the police come to her door asking her questions, she tries to leave the area on her horse. But she falls off her horse and is knocked unconscious. She...( read more  read more... ) is later found by John Baker and two other boys that go to the nearby prep school. John and Patty develop a relationship, and in this relationship John finds a way to leave his verbally abusive father and the school that he hates.

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PG-13, 86 min.

Directed by: Stacy Cochran

Release Date: May 10, 1996

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DVD Release Date: March 4, 2003

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  • March 23, 2008
    horribly edited
  • March 9, 2008
    A young prep school teen(Lukas Haas)gets involved with a mysterious young woman(Winona Ryder)who has a secret she is hiding. During the film snippets of a past acquaintance(Skeet Ulrich)may answer that very secret. Chris Cooper has a thankless, clichéd role as profane, short-fuse...( read more)d father of Haas. Jessica Harper has the thankless role as Haas' mother, the typical hush-hush-wife afraid of her hot-tempered husband. John C Reilly also has a minor role as a kindly officer trying to locate Ryder over the whereabouts of baseball star Ulrich.
  • May 30, 2008
    Not very memorable.
  • November 9, 2007
    This film is one of those unfortunates that would have been great, but just didn't. Great music regardless!
  • October 14, 2009
    Poor Winona Ryder. One grand larceny charge and her career goes into the toilet faster than a 99 cent Taco Bell burrito.
  • July 14, 2009
    Be better if it had a plot.
  • July 6, 2009
    the talking and the words were a bit off. im not sure if it was the certain channel.
  • June 23, 2009
    Wow this was a bad movie. Taped it off tv as I had never seen it and had liked a few of Winona's older movies. I remember hearing bad reviews on it when it was first out, but figured I'd check it out anyhow. I mean, I like some crap, let's face it. But this..... this was a wh...( read more)ole new level. Ten minutes in and I'm already bored crapless. Ugly film to look at, not a whole lot happening in story either...I stuck with it to see what all the flashbacks were hinting at. Surely be interesting at the end... but no, lame as, and don't even get me started on the ending. I mean, where the hell where they running off to?! And Winona's acting in this was like she was mentally challenged, not injured. Extremely ill advised. Avoid.
  • January 9, 2009
    No thankyou - Not interested.
  • January 8, 2009
    This movie was really stupid. Awful soundtrack.

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