Violet & Daisy (2013)
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96% want to see it
(639 ratings)
Violet (Alexis Bledel) and Daisy (Saoirse Ronan) are a pair of gum-chomping, gun-toting teenage assassins who casually snuff out crime figures in New York City, bothered only by the fact that a concert by their favorite pop idol Barbie Sunday has suddenly been canceled. Determined to raise cash for… More Violet (Alexis Bledel) and Daisy (Saoirse Ronan) are a pair of gum-chomping, gun-toting teenage assassins who casually snuff out crime figures in New York City, bothered only by the fact that a concert by their favorite pop idol Barbie Sunday has suddenly been canceled. Determined to raise cash for some Barbie Sunday dresses, the duo takes on a new hit, only to discover a kind of reckoning in the form of sad-sack shut-in (James Gandolfini) who is dying alone in his apartment of terminal cancer. He persuades the duo to kill him out of mercy, prompting an odyssey of self-examination that catapults the junior enforcers into a world beyond Barbie Sunday and bullets for pay. From Geoffrey Fletcher, the Academy Award-winning screenwriter of PRECIOUS comes a mesmerizing hybrid of New York City crime fable and existential coming-of-age drama in which teenage kicks match wits with adult-world turmoil, placing three wounded souls into a line of fire none expected - themselves.-- (C) Cinedigm
- Directed By
- Geoffrey S. Fletcher
- Written By
- Geoffrey S. Fletcher
- Genres
- Drama, Action & Adventure, Mystery & Suspense
- In Theaters
- Jun 7, 2013 Limited
- Studio
- Cinedigm Films
Critic Reviews
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Peter Debruge, Variety
Geoffrey Fletcher's directorial debut manages to be precious in a whole different way, sadly far-removed from the approach he took adapting the novel Push by Sapphire.
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Kirk Honeycutt, Hollywood Reporter
An ambitious but not wholly successful directorial debut by the writer behind the Precious film.
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David Nusair, Reel Film Reviews
Violet & Daisy has been saddled with a consistently underwhelming execution that inevitably drains all of the life and energy from the proceedings.
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Sara Maria Vizcarrondo, Boxoffice Magazine
The balance of naivete and insularly sweet exchanges are pleasing and comical but the film's painfully derivative.
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