Tanner Hall

"Tanner Hall" is basically "Wild Child" meets "Girl Interrupted", if you enjoyed "Cracks" you should seek out this film. It is an extremely modest production but the entire budget makes it onto the screen, the four main characters were realistically developed, and the four actresses playing them were well directed. Amy Sedaris plays a secondary character who effectively provides a necessary comic relief, thereby leaving the four main characters free of something that could have tainted their connections to the viewer.Fernanda (Rooney Mara) has the standard Winona Ryder part and the storytelling is essentially from her character's point of view, with the same voiceover narration of Ryder's character in "Girl, Interrupted". Rooney's acting has an ephemeral quality that transforms ordinary scenes into something special, perhaps best illustrated by her nonverbal reaction to discovering Victoria alone and crying in the rest room. The editor explains this through Fernanda's voiceover, but the scene has already communicated Fern's shifting attitude as she processes her unexpected connection with Victoria's vulnerability.The climatic scene in which Fernanda becomes protective of the bullying Victoria (Georgia King) did not entirely ring true - it was perhaps too extreme - Victoria's mother needed a better build-up. But I find scenes where a seemingly weaker girl becomes protective of a stronger one to be irresistible, probably become they challenge a viewer's preconceptions.And challenging viewer preconceptions is what "Tanner Hall" is all about. Like "Welcome to the Dollhouse", this is a film more about what is happening inside each viewer as they watch the film than about what is actually happening on the screen. Your reaction and the film's entertainment value will have a lot to do with your own experiences at that age or at least your sympathetic awareness of the difficulties that some of your classmates were experiencing. Meaning that if you don't connect and are not mildly blown away by the understated realism, then you and your friends simply weren't dysfunctional enough.Then again, what do I know? I'm only a child.

I like all of it

this is a coming of age story as 'romeo and juliet' and 'sid and nancy' are both great love stories. It tells a story of a brief time in the lives of four young women. They dont come of age, they deal with their own particular struggles together and lonely and alone. True to life, i felt lucky to be privy to observe their joy and pain in a particularly time of life that is so turbulent and intense for all of us.I appreciated the absence of cliched hollywood fallbacks like cheap titillation, simple characters and plots, and predictable hollywood endings. these actors did a wonderful job as did the writers. the characters are complex and engrossed me because they were real to me.i highly recommend this movie and give it five stars. i respect the prior reviewers opinion, just mine is different. i suppose i could be critical too, but i was too busy enjoying watching this film. i hope you enjoy it near as much as i did.

Bizarre movie but I should have known that when I saw Rooney Mara was in it - covers cheating, underage sex, inappropriate sex, lesbianism - not your avg HS movie

Fast service and blu ray was as described

This movie, though as observed by others, does contain a cliche or two. What I found different about this particular boarding school movie is how each girl is given her own story. They are all discovering their own strengths, weaknesses, limits,and forming their own personalities while away from their families. They rely upon their friends, fool their teachers, get into trouble, and delve into adult situations they believe themselves to be capable of dealing with. There are humorous moments and heart-wrenching ones. You don't have to be a girl to identify with what one of these characters experience.

Enjoyed seeing Rooney Mara in one of her earlier movies.

This movie takes you in many directions never really completing a story. Very disappointed. I haven't seen a movie this bad since Red Riding Hood. Not only am I am recommending you don't buy..don't rent it.

Really pleased with my order

Rooney Mara is a bad teenager sent to private school in England for discipline. She runs into a bad girl there, stuck up Georgia King. Brie Larsen is a foxy/amoral teenager. I think I've seen this plot before. It's another teen movie where 14-17 year old girls appear as 25 year olds who could have just tap danced off the Rockettes chorus line.

i love rooney mara. the film had some good parts

Realistic film about what it is like growing up around lots of girls/ going to a girls school. Great film about friendship and how the outside world gets in the way of the safe bubble that school life can be. Interesting coming of age film that is not too cheesy or predictable. Refreshingly realistic tale of 3 friends and how their lives change course under the influence of a new student.

The cover was all broken !!!! Very desappointing. Nevertheless the bluray disc was ok and I really appreciated the movie . I highly recommended it