BLUE CAR
Released: April 25, 2003
First time director Karen Moncrieff also wrote this coming of age story about a girl named Meg (played by the amazing Agnes Bruckner) who takes her relationship with her English teacher/mentor a little too far. David Strathairn is the teacher. What starts innocently as a basic teacher/student relationship quickly turns into dangerous territory but Moncrieff's writing and direction (and the two lead actors performances) saves this from becoming an exercise in cheap one dimensional cliches. The acting is at a level very few movies offer these days. This is a movie acting students and new directors should be required to watch. Also starring Frances Fisher as the teacher's jaded wife.
96 Minutes
Miramax/Buena Vista