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The Differences Between a Boy and a Girl: The he said/she said lowdown between stars Madeline Carroll and Callan McAuliffe
Embarrassing Egg-scuses: Madeline teaches raising chickens and hatching the perfect egg
How to Make the Best Volcano
Flipped: Anatomy of a Near Kiss
Embarrassing Egg-scuses: Madeline teaches raising chickens and hatching the perfect egg
How to Make the Best Volcano
Flipped: Anatomy of a Near Kiss
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Even if you're not a child of the early '60s, Flipped's tale will resonate with your heart. Director Rob Reiner treats viewers to a sweet but honest glimpse into the lives of a young girl and boy during the early 1960s as they maneuver through first crushes and heartbreak. Reiner once again shows he understands how to put together a compelling, yet simple, human story. We meet Juli Baker (Madeline Carroll) and Bryce Loski (Callan McAuliffe) on the day Bryce's family moves across the street from Juli's. Told by "flipping" between Juli and Bryce's voices, a tale of early childhood love emerges. Juli loves Bryce's baby blues from the first moment she sees them and she just knows he's holding onto her first kiss. Bryce thinks Juli, who raises chickens and loves the neighborhood sycamore tree, is weird. The story doesn't merely flip between the two stories, though. In 1963, the year eighth grade comes around, Juli begins to wonder if there's any substance behind those baby blues… just as Bryce starts to see Juli's eccentricities as endearing instead of embarrassing. Sweetly reminiscent without a saccharine aftertaste, the overall story is perhaps a tad predictable but is skillfully directed and acted--the families are played by a supporting cast of recognizable names, including Aidan Quinn, Anthony Edwards, Rebecca De Mornay, Penelope Ann Miller, and John Mahoney--so that you don't mind getting exactly what you expect. Based on the novel of the same name by Wendelin Van Draanen. --Jill Corddry
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When second-graders Bryce and Juli first meet, Juli knows it's love. Bryce isn't so sure. In the days and years ahead, Bryce (Callan McAuliffe) does all he can to keep his wannabe girlfriend at arm's length - and the smart, independent-minded Juli (Madeline Carroll) continues to give him the benefit of the doubt. This tender coming-of-age romantic comedy from director Rob Reiner takes the pair from grade school to junior high, through triumph and disaster, family drama and first love, as they make discoveries that will define who they are - and who they are to each other.
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67 of 71 people found the following review helpful
A Kid's Review
Format:DVD
Okay, let's dispense immediately with the idea that this film is geared toward teenagers and all of their sappy crap that they go through. I assure you "mature adults" out there that this film will delight you also, unless you are a completely hopelessly lost Scrooge. This film should make sense to all ages. Everyone should identify with it. I don't care what kind of a snob, low-life, big wig, or puritan you are, you should enjoy this film. It's never too sappy when it deals with matters of the heart, nor is it too blunt and insensitive.
The film is told almost entirely in a voice over of one of the two main characters. It's told in a brilliant he-said she-said style where the same scene is often told twice from the two opposite points of view (Juli's and Bryce's). So we see the opening scene twice. The first time as explained by Bryce, and the second time explained by Juli. This sort of formula is used many a time in the unfolding battle of the sexes. Of course this doesn't happen in every scene--that would get boring. Director Reiner gives us the proper dosages of everything in this film. The proper amount of comedy, romance, and the proper amount of sadness. Never is it sappy or indulgent or even presumptuous. It's a perfect film for what it's worth. The screenplay is absolutely the work of a fine craftsman--or craftsmen Andrew Scheinman and director Reiner. I don't know how long it took to write or how much blood went into it, but this film is the result of excellent work in every department. The two child stars are perfect in their roles (although Bryce could have done better), but the strength of the cast are in supporting actors. The cast is full of great actors, particularly Anthony Edwards as Bryce's arrogant, critical, smart-aleck father, and the ever-welcome Aidan Quinn as Juli's loving, down-to-earth, tree painting father.
I wasn't completely convinced of the excellence of the film until a beautiful scene in which Mr. Baker (Quinn) and Juli go to visit Mr. Baker's mentally retarded brother Daniel, who is so happy with the world and everything in it. But this scene can't be expressed in words, you have to see it. For what it's worth, Flipped is somewhat of a deep film, full of parallels to the real world. All of the characters have the proper amount of development, even the big sycamore tree that Juli likes to sit in and watch the sunrise. Her exploits while up in that tree are so poetic and beautiful when matched up with the pictures on screen. It's a beautiful and insightful scene into the thoughts and feelings of people in general, not just a teenage girl.
In this day when films are almost all big-budget action movies with loud explosions, Flipped has explosions of its own kind. It has explosions of heart and feeling and character, all at the appropriate times. I did not find any axe to grind here. Other than the characters, plot, and screenplay, it's also a technically beautiful film. The camera captures everything so clearly with the proper colour timing and excellently framed shots. After the mid-way point of the film, being surrounded by excellence, one starts to look for any reason to criticize the film. I found none. Every nuance of the film is done so genteelly and honestly, who can have a problem with it? This film achieves what movies are meant to achieve. They are meant to reach into are minds and draw us in, to entertain and to move us with fright, emotion, tears, laughs, whatever may be the subject. They are meant to create a world around us, whether in space, in the Wild West, in the future, in Bible times, or in the case of Flipped in 1960s suburbia. This film does exactly what it is meant to do. To touch and make us laugh and to remember. That's what it does. It makes us remember what happened or is happening to us. No one can give this a bad review. Anyone who does will be personally crucified by me (yes, I am saying sayonara to free speech and forcing my opinions on the world). I don't see how anyone can pick a fight with the film. But I'm blabbing about nothing.
In short, Flipped is by far the best film I've seen this year. I do hope the Academy doesn't overlook this like they do so many other "family" films. It should at least get a few nominations, if not a win. We'll see what happens. It's only July.
The film is told almost entirely in a voice over of one of the two main characters. It's told in a brilliant he-said she-said style where the same scene is often told twice from the two opposite points of view (Juli's and Bryce's). So we see the opening scene twice. The first time as explained by Bryce, and the second time explained by Juli. This sort of formula is used many a time in the unfolding battle of the sexes. Of course this doesn't happen in every scene--that would get boring. Director Reiner gives us the proper dosages of everything in this film. The proper amount of comedy, romance, and the proper amount of sadness. Never is it sappy or indulgent or even presumptuous. It's a perfect film for what it's worth. The screenplay is absolutely the work of a fine craftsman--or craftsmen Andrew Scheinman and director Reiner. I don't know how long it took to write or how much blood went into it, but this film is the result of excellent work in every department. The two child stars are perfect in their roles (although Bryce could have done better), but the strength of the cast are in supporting actors. The cast is full of great actors, particularly Anthony Edwards as Bryce's arrogant, critical, smart-aleck father, and the ever-welcome Aidan Quinn as Juli's loving, down-to-earth, tree painting father.
I wasn't completely convinced of the excellence of the film until a beautiful scene in which Mr. Baker (Quinn) and Juli go to visit Mr. Baker's mentally retarded brother Daniel, who is so happy with the world and everything in it. But this scene can't be expressed in words, you have to see it. For what it's worth, Flipped is somewhat of a deep film, full of parallels to the real world. All of the characters have the proper amount of development, even the big sycamore tree that Juli likes to sit in and watch the sunrise. Her exploits while up in that tree are so poetic and beautiful when matched up with the pictures on screen. It's a beautiful and insightful scene into the thoughts and feelings of people in general, not just a teenage girl.
In this day when films are almost all big-budget action movies with loud explosions, Flipped has explosions of its own kind. It has explosions of heart and feeling and character, all at the appropriate times. I did not find any axe to grind here. Other than the characters, plot, and screenplay, it's also a technically beautiful film. The camera captures everything so clearly with the proper colour timing and excellently framed shots. After the mid-way point of the film, being surrounded by excellence, one starts to look for any reason to criticize the film. I found none. Every nuance of the film is done so genteelly and honestly, who can have a problem with it? This film achieves what movies are meant to achieve. They are meant to reach into are minds and draw us in, to entertain and to move us with fright, emotion, tears, laughs, whatever may be the subject. They are meant to create a world around us, whether in space, in the Wild West, in the future, in Bible times, or in the case of Flipped in 1960s suburbia. This film does exactly what it is meant to do. To touch and make us laugh and to remember. That's what it does. It makes us remember what happened or is happening to us. No one can give this a bad review. Anyone who does will be personally crucified by me (yes, I am saying sayonara to free speech and forcing my opinions on the world). I don't see how anyone can pick a fight with the film. But I'm blabbing about nothing.
In short, Flipped is by far the best film I've seen this year. I do hope the Academy doesn't overlook this like they do so many other "family" films. It should at least get a few nominations, if not a win. We'll see what happens. It's only July.
27 of 28 people found the following review helpful
Format:DVD
Rob Reiner's "Flipped," based on the novel by Wendelin Van Draanen, is an all-around likeable film, a sweet, nostalgic, and reliable coming of age story about first loves and family dramas. It could even be described as a romantic comedy, even if the leads are really too young to know anything about romance. Do you remember how, as kids, you would talk about how you liked someone, and not just liked them, but REALLY liked them, you know, as more than a friend? That's the kind of innocence this movie brings to mind, which I guess is fitting since it mostly takes place in the early 1960s. The plot is perhaps a bit conventional, but it's also undeniably charming, and it features two strong leads who, although young, competently navigate their way through the screenplay, even when it falls victim to sentimental contrivances.
The story is about a boy named Bryce Loski and a girl named Julianna Baker, who first met in 1957 when they were only seven years old. Julianna, or Juli (Morgan Lily), bursting with energy and enthusiasm, immediately fell for Bryce (Ryan Ketzner) - or, at the very least, developed what can only be described as a puppy-love crush. Bryce, being only seven, had absolutely no interest in girls, and found her affections frightening. He spent every waking moment trying to avoid her, made impossible by the fact that they live across the street from each other and attended the same school.
Flash forward six years to the story proper. A now thirteen-year-old Bryce (Callan McAuliffe) has successfully kept Juli (Madeline Carroll) at a distance, although he keeps bumping into her, and she persists in being outgoing and affectionate. Then things start to change. Juli, who enjoyed climbing a towering sycamore tree and admiring the view, is crushed when developers cut it down, and she feels betrayed when Bryce fails to offer her support. She had been giving Bryce's family boxes of eggs from her own backyard hens, only to discover that Bryce had been throwing them away. Her backyard, he reasons, is filthy and could be breeding salmonella. She angrily tells him that she could have sold those eggs to other neighbors, who have always been willing to pay her for them. Maybe Bryce isn't who she thought he was. Maybe she should just forget about him altogether. The thing is, Bryce is starting to tolerate her. Why, he might even actually LIKE her. He's flipped!
She finds solace in Bryce's grandfather, Chet (John Mahoney), who now lives with Bryce and his family. He likes Juli because of her "iron backbone," which reminds him of his recently deceased wife. She, in turn, likes him, probably because he's the only Loski that doesn't look down on her family. In this middle-American, middle class neighborhood, the Bakers are easy targets; her father, a painter (Aidan Quinn), gives every cent he earns to the hospital caring for his mentally retarded brother, David (Kevin Weisman), meaning his wife (Penelope Ann Miller) has to find temporary work just to make ends meet. Bryce's father, Steven (Anthony Edwards), is especially judgmental, although it's for reasons left a little obscure, save for a vague and passing reference to an unfulfilled life.
The story is structured as a He-Said, She-Said, Bryce narrating scenes from his point of view before the same scenes are replayed and narrated from Juli's point of view. Not surprisingly, they think along very different lines. Bryce's mind is relentlessly one-tracked, always stuck on how he should avoid Juli, how he should approach Juli, or how he should or apologize to Juli. The one line that's repeated like a mantra is, "I couldn't stop thinking about Juli." Perhaps he wouldn't be on this psychological treadmill if he actually bothered to consider her feelings. Compare this with Juli, who's far more introspective. She tries to see people for who they really are and not for how they present themselves. Now that she's a teenager, Bryce is more of an attractive curiosity, a mystery that she wants to solve. But can he be figured out? Or is there truly nothing behind those eyes she loves to look into?
While lacking the drama and complexity of Reiner's earlier coming of age period film, "Stand by Me," "Flipped" is still a warm, caring, resonant film, taking the conventions of today's romantic comedies and successfully reworking them for a more adolescent audience. The cast is pleasant, especially the young leads. McAuliffe in particular is surprising, at age fifteen already in command of a flawless American accent (he's Australian). That being said, it's doubtful that "Flipped" will ever be mentioned in the same sentence as Reiner's most memorable films, including "This is Spinal Tap," "The Princess Bride," "Misery," and "When Harry Met Sally ..." Oh, it gets the job done nicely, and it's worth seeing, but don't expect to be quoting lines from it twenty years from now.
The story is about a boy named Bryce Loski and a girl named Julianna Baker, who first met in 1957 when they were only seven years old. Julianna, or Juli (Morgan Lily), bursting with energy and enthusiasm, immediately fell for Bryce (Ryan Ketzner) - or, at the very least, developed what can only be described as a puppy-love crush. Bryce, being only seven, had absolutely no interest in girls, and found her affections frightening. He spent every waking moment trying to avoid her, made impossible by the fact that they live across the street from each other and attended the same school.
Flash forward six years to the story proper. A now thirteen-year-old Bryce (Callan McAuliffe) has successfully kept Juli (Madeline Carroll) at a distance, although he keeps bumping into her, and she persists in being outgoing and affectionate. Then things start to change. Juli, who enjoyed climbing a towering sycamore tree and admiring the view, is crushed when developers cut it down, and she feels betrayed when Bryce fails to offer her support. She had been giving Bryce's family boxes of eggs from her own backyard hens, only to discover that Bryce had been throwing them away. Her backyard, he reasons, is filthy and could be breeding salmonella. She angrily tells him that she could have sold those eggs to other neighbors, who have always been willing to pay her for them. Maybe Bryce isn't who she thought he was. Maybe she should just forget about him altogether. The thing is, Bryce is starting to tolerate her. Why, he might even actually LIKE her. He's flipped!
She finds solace in Bryce's grandfather, Chet (John Mahoney), who now lives with Bryce and his family. He likes Juli because of her "iron backbone," which reminds him of his recently deceased wife. She, in turn, likes him, probably because he's the only Loski that doesn't look down on her family. In this middle-American, middle class neighborhood, the Bakers are easy targets; her father, a painter (Aidan Quinn), gives every cent he earns to the hospital caring for his mentally retarded brother, David (Kevin Weisman), meaning his wife (Penelope Ann Miller) has to find temporary work just to make ends meet. Bryce's father, Steven (Anthony Edwards), is especially judgmental, although it's for reasons left a little obscure, save for a vague and passing reference to an unfulfilled life.
The story is structured as a He-Said, She-Said, Bryce narrating scenes from his point of view before the same scenes are replayed and narrated from Juli's point of view. Not surprisingly, they think along very different lines. Bryce's mind is relentlessly one-tracked, always stuck on how he should avoid Juli, how he should approach Juli, or how he should or apologize to Juli. The one line that's repeated like a mantra is, "I couldn't stop thinking about Juli." Perhaps he wouldn't be on this psychological treadmill if he actually bothered to consider her feelings. Compare this with Juli, who's far more introspective. She tries to see people for who they really are and not for how they present themselves. Now that she's a teenager, Bryce is more of an attractive curiosity, a mystery that she wants to solve. But can he be figured out? Or is there truly nothing behind those eyes she loves to look into?
While lacking the drama and complexity of Reiner's earlier coming of age period film, "Stand by Me," "Flipped" is still a warm, caring, resonant film, taking the conventions of today's romantic comedies and successfully reworking them for a more adolescent audience. The cast is pleasant, especially the young leads. McAuliffe in particular is surprising, at age fifteen already in command of a flawless American accent (he's Australian). That being said, it's doubtful that "Flipped" will ever be mentioned in the same sentence as Reiner's most memorable films, including "This is Spinal Tap," "The Princess Bride," "Misery," and "When Harry Met Sally ..." Oh, it gets the job done nicely, and it's worth seeing, but don't expect to be quoting lines from it twenty years from now.
20 of 22 people found the following review helpful
By Jennifer
Format:DVD
This film was wonderful. It is not an art house movie full of pouty, pensive, mumbling people. Flipped is watching memories from a story your aunt and uncle are telling you.
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A good movie
I think this movie was great and the HD was awesome! But u should totally read the book first or else u won't understand the movie. Read more
Published 2 days ago by Swag_bob
5.0 out of 5 stars
My class got flipped!
The story was well appreciated by my students. Having two point of views, made them think more logically about the characters and it made do a deeper literary analysis of the... Read more
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Great movie
My daughter loves this movie, so I thought I'd surprise her and order it. She was extremely happy and watches it all the time
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great for classroom use
We use this to compare and contrast with the novel. I have to bleep a few scenes.
But, very enjoyable...
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5.0 out of 5 stars
Sweet family movie
This movie is really cute. Nice story line as well as lessons on life. The characters are lovable and keep you entertained.
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4.0 out of 5 stars
Funny and touching movie!
Great movie for the whole family and will keep teens interested. Haven't seen such a good one in a long time.
Published 1 month ago by Deborah
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Loved it
This is actually one of my all-time favorite books, and I love the dvd just as much. The movie is sweet, humorous, serious, and just points out how you never really forget your... Read more
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loved it.
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