Steal Me (2005)
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44% of critics liked it
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41% of users liked it
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A family goes through some changes when an unusual sort of drifter crosses their path in this independent coming-of-age drama. Jake (Danny Alexander) is a homeless 15-year-old kid with a fondness for stealing things and a precocious appetite for older women. Jake is passing through a small Montana… More A family goes through some changes when an unusual sort of drifter crosses their path in this independent coming-of-age drama. Jake (Danny Alexander) is a homeless 15-year-old kid with a fondness for stealing things and a precocious appetite for older women. Jake is passing through a small Montana town as he continues his search for the mother who abandoned him years before when he meets Tucker (Hunter Parrish) while stealing the radio out of his truck. Though Tucker is a bit older than Jake, Jake's rough-and-tumble existence has added a few years to his life experience, and after a scuffle over the radio, the boys become fast friends. Tucker brings Jake home for a square meal, and while Tucker's father (John Terry) is wary of the young drifter, he agrees to let him stay for a few days in the family's barn. However, it turns out Dad was right not to trust Jake; not only does he get caught stealing trinkets from Tucker's younger sister, he becomes amorously involved with a married middle-aged woman who lives nearby. While Jake tends to this affair and toys with the trust of the family who has taken him in, he also offers some advice to Tucker on how to win the attentions of Lily Rose (Paz de la Huerta), a neighborhood girl he has a crush on. ~ Mark Deming, Rovi
- Directed By
- Melissa Painter
- Genres
- Art House & International, Drama
Unrated,
- In Theaters
- Jun 10, 2005 Wide
Critic Reviews
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Kevin Thomas, Los Angeles Times
Steal Me is a beautifully realized small film of understated power.
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Jeannette Catsoulis, New York Times
Everything about Steal Me, the new feature from the writer and director Melissa Painter, feels dangerously overripe.
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Jami Bernard, New York Daily News
Drifter comes to small town, gets all the ladies hot. But it's not the steamy, literate Picnic, starring William Holden - instead it's the pretentious Steal Me, an artily photographed, puzzlingly acted indie.
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Lou Lumenick, New York Post
Solid performances can't save Melissa Painter's pretentious teen drama Steal Me, which plays like a cross between Dangerous Skin (without the gay sex) and Picnic (without the production values or credible situations).
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Ben Kenigsberg, Village Voice
Steal Me has at least one indie-film cliché too many.
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Cast
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Cara Seymour
as Mother
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Danny Alexander
as Jake
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Hunter Parrish
as Tucker
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Paz de la Huerta
as Lily Rose
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John Terry
as Father
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Toby Poser
as Grace
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Chelsea Carlson
as Cindy
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Vann Gravage
as Alan
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Miles Gravage
as Kon
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Steve Brian
as Policeman/Will
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Zelda Poser
as Baby Zelda
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Keegan Nashan
as Cindy's Friend
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Justin O'Hair
as Unshaved Man
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Clay Tuck
as Billy
