Rotten
Unfortunate thesps take it all very seriously, while technical aspects are emptily polished.
Variety Staff, Variety
Poison Ivy
Ivy thought her best friend had the perfect house, the perfect family, the perfect life. So she took them.
1992 · 1h 32m · R
Drama, Thriller
Directed by
Katt Shea
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Poison Ivy
Overview
A seductive teen befriends an introverted high school student and schemes her way into the lives of her wealthy family.
Director and cast
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38%
Tomatometer
Rotten
Drew Barrymore stars in a melodrama that borders on high-class kiddie porn.
Jonathan Rosenbaum, Chicago Reader
Fresh
Why settle for the usual walk around the exploitation block when Shea offers a wild ride with the top down into uncharted territory?
Peter Travers, Rolling Stone
Rotten
For the most part the actors' work seems incomplete because their characters are cut off before they can fully blossom.
Hal Hinson, Washington Post
Rotten
There is scarcely a moment in the movie when the story works as fiction; I was always aware of the casting, of the mood-setting devices, of the stylistic borrowings from Hitchcock.
Roger Ebert, Chicago Sun-Times
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