For teenager Halley, love seems like an alien concept. She is disillusioned by too many examples of love gone wrong, refuses to believe that true love exists. But, when Halley meets edgy Macon, she learns what love is really all about.
17 December 1946, Toronto, Ontario, Canada
12 May 1973, Los Angeles, California, USA
19 August 1955, New York City, New York, USA
15 January 1979, Akron, Ohio, USA
30 April 1977, Northfield, Minnesota, USA
18 April 1950, Kingston, Jamaica
10 April 1984, Nashua, New Hampshire, USA
7 October 1959, Syracuse, New York, USA
28 October 1970, Toronto, Ontario, Canada
23 February 1981, Magadan, Magadan region, RSFSR, USSR [now Russia]
21 October 1983, Toronto, Ontario, Canada
15 June 1973, Ontario, Canada
8 September 1958, Ottawa Valley, Ontario, Canada
10 June 1981, Toronto, Ontario, Canada
29 December 1978, Ankara, Turkey
December 24, 2010
Even Moore fans may find this hard to deal with.
July 19, 2003
Painless to watch, but it's marred by some significant flaws.
July 19, 2003
After a while the bad lighting, graceless editing, sluggish dialogue and self-conscious performances begin to seem like marks of authenticity, as if the movie had been made not just for and about teenagers, but by them.
July 31, 2003
The pop diva goes down with the bubbles in this hopelessly shallow soap opera.
July 18, 2003
A bad, unimaginative story posing pretentiously as the very opposite.
January 02, 2004
[T]his is a movie that teenage girls -- and nearly no one else -- should enjoy.
September 20, 2003
In delivering its message of teen perseverence, How to Deal piles on "issues" without finding a reasonable connective narrative.
February 13, 2004
Will enthral pre-teen chippies with its wholesome, marshmallow-peep-sweet vacuous-ness.
September 20, 2004
Fails to acknowledge the real problems teenagers face.
August 05, 2003
Overcrowded with characters and subplots, the film gives short shrift to the parts that should matter.
July 21, 2003
I've seen a lot of dumb teen romances in the last couple years, but How to Deal, is a welcome exception.
July 18, 2003
Another soundtrack-driven, disposable, not entirely objectionable teen movie.
