White Bird in a Blizzard

I was 17 when my mother disappeared...

A teenage girl is just 17 years old when her perfect homemaker mother disappears... just as the girl is discovering and relishing her newfound sexuality. Having lived for so long in a stifled, emotionally repressed household, she barely registers her mother's absence and certainly doesn't blame her doormat of a father, for the loss. In fact, it's almost a relief. But as time passes, she begins to come to grips with how deeply her mother's disappearance has affected her. Returning home on a break from college, she finds herself confronted with the truth about her mother's departure, and her own denial about the events surrounding it.

91 minutes.
No persons under 16 (Language, Sex, Nudity).
Detective/Mystery, Drama, Thriller, On the art circuit

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Credits

Cast	Shailene Woodley, Eva Green, Christopher Meloni, Shiloh Fernandez, Angela Bassett, Gabourey Sidibe
Director	Gregg Araki
Screenplay	Gregg Araki, from the novel by Laura Kasischke
Music	Harold Budd, Robin Guthrie
Cinematography	Sandra Valde-Hansen
Editing	Gregg Araki
Sound formats	Dolby Digital, Datasat
Soundtrack	Available
Made in	2014
Produced by	Desperate Pictures, Orange Studio, Why Not Productions, Wild Bunch

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Film and Publications Board (FPB) Report (SA)

Genre	Thriller
Language	Strong, frequent
Nudity	Moderate, fairly frequent, sexual and non-sexual context
Sex	None (sic)
Violence	Infrequent, moderate, no bloodletting, realistic, psychological, physical
Prejudice	None
Blasphemy	None
Drug abuse	None
Comments
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CommonSenseMedia Report (USA)

Suggested age limit 17 +	Positive messages	Positive role models
Violence	Sex	Language
Consumerism	Drinking, drugs, smoking

Ratings

Scale (Max)	20
What the Critics say
Cape Argus / The Star Theresa Smith Araki's coming-of-age tale fails to get off the ground.	5
Die Burger Rozanne Els	5
Cape Times Todd McCarthy Flat 'White Bird' fails to take off.	5
Metacritic.com 27 critics	10
Rottentomatoes critics 75 critics	11
Rottentomatoes tomatometer Tomatometer Part suburban thriller, part sexual awakening drama -- and fully convincing as neither -- White Bird in a Blizzard rests a little too heavily on Shailene Woodley's typically superlative work.	11
Movie Review Query Engine MRQE critics	12
CommonSenseMedia Staff evaluation Uneven but well-acted drama is disturbing; lots of sex.	10
What the People say
Metacritic.com users 21 users	11
Rottentomatoes users 5692 users	10
Internet 16664 Netizens Dreamy Colorful Mess	13
Average .. 47%	9