Rotten
Staring thoughtfully into the middle distance, Ms. Sobieski looks as if she is already contemplating better scripts.
Elvis Mitchell, New York Times
Here on Earth
One summer totally changed their lives.
2000 · 1h 36m · PG-13
Drama, Romance
Directed by
Mark Piznarski
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Here on Earth
Overview
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.
Director and cast
- Mark Piznarski Director
- Leelee Sobieski as Samantha Cavanaugh
- Chris Klein as Kelvin Morse
- Josh Hartnett as Jasper Arnold
- Michael Rooker as Malcolm Arnold
- Annie Corley as Betsy Arnold
- Bruce Greenwood as Earl Cavanaugh
- Annette O'Toole as Jo Cavanaugh
- Elaine Hendrix as Jennifer Cavanaugh
- Stuart Wilson as John Morse
- Ronni Saxon as Robin Arnold
Critics on Rotten Tomatoes
Top critics, in their words
18%
Tomatometer
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
Rotten
Three appealing performers are lumbered with material that doesn't measure up to them in Here on Earth.
Jay Carr, Boston Globe
Rotten
For a movie about the ferocity of first love, it seems curiously pallid and passionless.
Terry Lawson, Detroit Free Press
Rotten
Lazily conceived characters.
Desson Thomson, Washington Post
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