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Actors: Piper Perabo, Mischa Barton, Jessica Paré
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| Review Summary and Plot Commentary about Lost and Delirious |
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This film is based on a novel by Susan Swan, entitled "The Wives of Bath." Most of the action takes place in a girls' private school, attended by teenaged "Paulie" (played by Piper Perabo), "Tori" (played by Jessica Paré), and "Mouse" (played by Mischa Barton). Lonely, introverted Mouse is dropped off for the first time at boarding school. She is assigned to an attic bedroom, which she must share with Paulie and Tori. Paulie is confident, smart and emotionally intense, while Tori seems less so. The two young women are good friends; indeed, as Mouse discovers inadvertently one day, they are lovers.
While Mouse keeps their secret, Tori's sister learns about the affair between Paulie and Tori, and threatens to reveal the truth to her parents. Tori, afraid of the consequences and of being labelled a lesbian, begins a relationship with a young man attending the nearby boys' private school.
Paulie, however, is intensely in love with Tori, and her emotions take on dramatic proportions as she challenges Tori's boyfriend to a duel outside the school grounds, recites romantic poetry to Tori in the library, and makes something of a scene at a parent-student dance. Paulie also starts to seek solace in the woods near the school, where she discovers an injured eagle and takes it "under her wing." Paulie seeks to heal her wounds and find the freedom that the eagle will eventually enjoy. In her emotionally tormented state, she realizes that Tori will remain ambivalent about her love for Paulie, and that Tori cannot resist homophobic peer pressure. The film ends in tragedy and lessons for the main characters in the nature of love and loss.
--Jan Arata, Resident Scholar
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Plot
Time/era of movie:
- 1980's-1999
Taboo Sex Story?
Yes
Kind of sex:
- LESBIANS!!!!!!
Main Character
Identity:
- Female
Profession/status:
- student
Age:
- a teen
Hair color?
- brunette (Brown)
Hair type
- (woman) long straight
Body type
- (woman) average
Unclothed?
- Chest and Buttocks
Events of movie makes character more...
- sad
Ethnicity/Nationality
- White (American)
How sensitive is this character?
- hard edged
Sense of humor?
- Mostly serious with occasional humor
Intelligence
- Smarter than most other characters
Physique
- average physique
Secondary Main Character
Identity:
- Female
Hair color
- brunette (Brown)
Hair style
- (woman) long straight
Body type
- (woman) average
Unclothed?
- buttocks and chest
How much in movie?
- 60%
Ethnicity/Nationality
- White (American)
Main Adversary
Identity:
- general circumstances
Setting
The Americas (not US):
Yes
The Americas:
- Canada
Misc setting
- school
Style
Accounts of torture and death?
- moderately detailed references to deaths
Movie makes you feel...
- depressed/sad
Sex/nudity in movie?
Yes
What kind of sex:
- kissing
- lesbians!
- seeing breasts
- seeing nude female butt
- sex under blankets
Non-American film?
Yes
What language?
- English
Any profanity?
- Occasional swearing
Is this movie based on a
- book
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