Graduation

Graduation

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  • Genre: Comedy, Crime, Drama
  • Release Date: 2007-04-24
  • Runtime: 89 minutes
  • : 5.7
  • Production Company: Blueline Films
  • Production Country: United States of America
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5.7/10
5.7
From 37 Ratings

Description

Four best friends, about to graduate from high school, must find a way to raise money to help a family member in need. When one of them discovers her banker father having an affair, the foursome plots to rob his bank during graduation ceremonies. When things don't go according to plan, they end up learning more about themselves in one day than they ever did in school.

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  • CinemaSerf

    7
    By CinemaSerf
    When their teenage daughter "Eliza" (Maria Dragus) has a violent altercation outside of her school, her doctor father "Romeo" (Adrian Titieni) and her librarian mother "Magda" (Lia Bugnar) are faced with quite a few complex parenting decisions - and not only do they often disagree between themselves, but their daughter is also reprioritising things and this whole commotion is causing the couple to reappraise their own relationship. "Eliza" is on the cusp of taking her final examinations that could see her study psychology at Cambridge and her parents are keen that she leave their Transylvanian community and experience a new, in their view more civilised, world. Her trauma after an attempted rape is making it difficult to concentrate and with her father pushing and pushing, she begins to reconsider just as decidedly as he is determined she shouldn't. Meantime, her mother is smoking her way thrugh 50-a-day and realising a few things of her own. This all comes to an head when we discover something rather unsavoury about "Romeo" and everything is now well and truly up in the air. Essentially, this is an unremarkable family drama the likes of which we've seen a few times before. What's a bit different here, I felt, is the standard of the writing. These actors are immersed in their characters and deliver quite potently as their predicaments expand to the point that their lives are likely to be permanently derailed - all whilst the father becomes more and more frustrated. It's perhaps this role that punches hardest. A man who has struggled to grow up under Romanian communism and who is determined that his daughter will have the best opportunities money can buy - whether she likes it or not! There are a few intrigues going on simultaneously, which remind us that though a great deal more free than thirty years earlier, there is still a degree of state snooping going on in the lives of the population. It is a bit on the long side, and there are some repetitive scenes that slow down the pace, but the roles are strongly and evocatively performed and for those with children with big decisions to make, it is bound to resonate somewhat.

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