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Pure

Pure (2004)

  • 74% of critics liked it
    (23 reviews)

  • 50% of users liked it
    (270 ratings)

A group of young Montrealers seek, in their own limited ways, for the meaning of life, love, sex and friendship. Misha is a street-smart college student who is torn between completing her degree and her party-girl past. During her summer off in the suburbs she meets Josh, a sweet sensitive guy she… More

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Genres
Drama
In Theaters
Nov 11, 2005 Wide
K- Films Amérique

Critic Reviews

  • Kevin Thomas, Los Angeles Times

    Eden, who holds the film together by his winning presence and doughty performance, effectively conveys the effect of severe challenges that no child should ever have to face.

  • G. Allen Johnson, San Francisco Chronicle

    Although there is nothing really new here, an honest sense of humanity wins out.

  • Michael Booth, Denver Post

    Parker and Harry Eden, the boy who plays her precocious-by-necessity son, elevate Pure from a tedious cautionary tale to a wrenching drama.

  • Roger Ebert, Chicago Sun-Times

    Molly Parker is an extraordinary actress of the ordinary.

  • Richard Roeper, Ebert & Roeper

    It's a good film that really knows its subject.

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    [font=Century Gothic]"Pure" takes place following the death of Paul's father, making ten-year old Paul(Harry Eden) the man of the house, as his distraught mother(Molly Parker) has been seduced by Lenny(David Wenham), a drug dealer, and the narcotic allure of heroin.… More

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