Three lives of three young people intersect over the course of one summer. A rich student and a young working-class man accidentally destroy a diner when their impromptu road race takes a disastrous turn. Ordered by a judge to spend the summer repairing the building, they find themselves becoming rivals for the affections of the owner's daughter.
For a movie about the ferocity of first love, it seems curiously pallid and passionless.
– Terry Lawson,
Detroit Free Press,
1 Jan 2000
rotten:
Three appealing performers are lumbered with material that doesn't measure up to them in Here on Earth.
– Jay Carr,
Boston Globe,
1 Jan 2000
rotten:
If you haven't seen Klein's charming dodo-head athlete in Election or Sobieski's sympathetic hooker in Eyes Wide Shut, you won't know just how ignominiously both have fallen in Here on Earth.
– Jan Stuart,
Newsday,
1 Jan 2000
rotten:
Staring thoughtfully into the middle distance, Ms. Sobieski looks as if she is already contemplating better scripts.