Product Details

• Actors: Gordon Currie, Karen Gorney, Vincent Laresca, Ron Brice, Monica Keena
• Directors: Mo Ogrodnik
• Format: Closed-captioned, Color, DVD, NTSC
• Language: English
• Region: Region 1 (U.S. and Canada only. Read more about DVD formats.)
  
• Aspect Ratio: 1.33:1
• Number of discs: 1
• Rated: R (Restricted)
• Studio: Lions Gate
• DVD Release Date: April 5, 2005
• Run Time: 93 minutes
• Average Customer Review: 3.5 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (22 customer reviews)
• ASIN: B0007N19Z0
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #109,875 in Movies & TV (See Top 100 in Movies & TV)

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RIPE - DVD Movie

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21 of 24 people found the following review helpful:

1.0 out of 5 stars Waste of good concept, actresses., January 15, 2001

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Dafydd Mac an Leigh (Waltham, MA USA) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Ripe [VHS] (VHS Tape)

This movie is an utter disappointment. The concept it explores - budding female sexuality in a hyper-testoterone environment - is certainly fascinating and well worth exploring, but the realization of that concept falls apart in nearly every way. The script is very badly written, both in terms of storyline, and of dialogue. One can't help feeling, for example, that the screenwriter wrote swearwords into the opening monologue simply to have the speaker swear. The story relies so heavily on cliche that you can predict each plot twist twenty minutes in advance. The army base, where most of the film takes place, is in a state of disrepair that the army would never have allowed - the set dressers couldn't even get rid of the cobwebs. The supporting actors are laughably bad, from the "lone biker" guy who deflowers one sister, to the "sympathetic officer" who teaches the other to shoot a gun, to the various soldiers and cadets milling about the outskirts of the plot. In fact, this movie is so bad over all, it might be enjoyable to watch simply to make fun of it. Except no, the two starring actresses, Daisy Eagan and Monica Keena, are far to good. (Eagan is best known for playing Mary Lennox in "The Secret Garden" on Broadway, for which she won the Tony Award for Best Actress in a Musical - at age 11.) I wanted "Ripe" to be good. I really did. Alas, there just isn't enough quality invested in this film to make it worth even a second glance.

10 of 10 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars The sleazy poster and video box do the film an injustice., January 3, 2000

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D. Mok (Los Angeles, CA) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Ripe [VHS] (VHS Tape)

Ripe is not an exploitative Lolita sex film as the oversaturated key art may suggest. Instead, it is a challenging, offbeat exploration of female sexuality and coming of age, imaginatively directed and well acted by its three leads.

The script sometimes gets rocky and crude as with many indie films (too much swearing is a curse in indie scripts), but the film is visually stunning, and the cumulation of small moments is delicious -- when Violet discovers the adult magazines, for example, or when the gruff man who takes the sisters in has to explain menstruation to her. And the final scene with the two sisters is devastating, a weird amalgam of suspense, family drama, and psychosexual overtones.

A wonderful music score by Anton Sanko (ex-Suzanne Vega Band) augments this aesthetically excellent, curiously poignant, ultimately very dark film.

13 of 14 people found the following review helpful:

3.0 out of 5 stars A lot of flack.. an average (NOT BAD) movie., September 12, 2002

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"rebecccccccccca" (Cleveland, Ohio, USA) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Ripe [VHS] (VHS Tape)

Ripe is.. an interesting movie, to say the least. Of course, as I'm sure was the case with others who rented this movie, the cover was what attracted me to it. I am a heterosexual female, so it wasn't necessarily the sex appeal, but more so that title of the movie and the simplicity of the cover. After reading the back of the box, I decided to check it out. For some, perhaps most, this movie will be a let down. You'd probably be expecting a sexually driven/teenage hormones extravaganza, but in the end, this movie is really the deep story of a very tough choice. It's a look into the life of two teenage sisters, Rosie and Violet, on the run from the death of both of their parents. Throughout the movie, I was constantly rolling my eyes and sighing from annoyance towards Rosie, the apathetic tomboy of the two. Violet, sometimes seemingly naive and ignorant, had her share of sighs as well. However, about 2/3 into the movie, my attitude towards all of this changed, as the storyline dramatically did as well. The last twenty minutes were a real shock (some reviews said that this movie was very cliche, very unoriginal, and very predictable, but I disagree), and made the rest of the movie worth it. I loved the ending -- just sad enough to make an impact.. had it ended any other way, I probably wouldn't be as satisfied with this movie. All in all, Ripe is worth a shot if you have some time to burn and an open mind (not tarnished from these bad reviews).