A straight-A student, Carlos is focused and driven, but his future is cast in doubt when he becomes the flirtation target of spoiled, self-destructive bad girl Nicole Oakley.
13 August 1971, San Salvador, El Salvador
28 June 1946, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA
3 December 1981, New York City, New York, USA
5 March 1976, Santa Cruz, California, USA
9 November 1979, Chicago, Illinois, USA
30 April 1982, Point Pleasant, New Jersey, USA
2 April 1971, Bronx, New York, USA
July 24, 1975 in West Covina, California, USA
23 April 1951
29 December 1960, Waco, Texas, USA
December 22, 2010
There is nothing new in this teen fantasy.
June 29, 2001
The movie is so predictable, it's not surprising that the script is credited to first-timers Phil Hay and Matt Manfredi, and the direction to John Stockwell, a former acting peer to Tom Cruise.
June 29, 2001
Sure, the Romeo-and-Juliet thing has been done before, but director John Stockwell pulls it off with his two promising leads.
July 03, 2001
As overproduced as a Super Bowl soft-drink commercial, so much so that even its potentially insightful moments seem like movie fakery.
June 29, 2001
Even when the movie is bad -- which it is in its abrupt, mismanaged, final-act attempt to cram in moments of forgiveness and clarity -- it's addictively so.
October 15, 2002
The effect is a much more engrossing experience than we have come to expect from teen movies.
August 28, 2002
The movie's dramatic moments come from dialogue not actions, and much of the time viewers are left on their own to fill in the words that remain unspoken.
October 21, 2002
Has a typical, write-by-the-numbers plot, about as predictable as they come and almost that interesting.
January 14, 2004
This movie is godawful. Simply godawful.
July 30, 2002
...these kids talk like real kids, not like Hollywood's version of precocious, advanced adolescence...
June 29, 2001
Dunst, in her finest performance yet, has now transcended her fellow teen stars.
June 29, 2001
Evokes the romantic infatuation of young love with a painful accuracy.
