2012 Sundance Predictions: Jamie Babbit’s Breaking the Girl

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#11. Breaking the Girl – Jamie Babbit

Described by Jamie Babbit as a “genre-trashy fun; gratuitous girl-on-girl make-out scenes and three-inch heels”, Breaking the Girl which is based on a screenplay by Mark Distefano and American Psycho‘s Guinevere Turner stars indie actors Madeline Zima, Shawn Ashmore and Agnes Bruckner. Having presented a pair of short films almost a decade back (her 2002 short “Stuck,” was a winner of the 2002 Sundance Film Festival’s Special Mention Jury Prize), Babbit’s (middle person in random set pic above) latest would be a good fit for a Park City at Midnight showing.

Gist: When university student Sara (Bruckner) is slandered by a hostile classmate, she is befriended by the manipulative Alex (Zima) who proposes the perfect, untraceable crime – to kill each other’s arch enemies. When Alex actually goes through with it, Sara finds herself being framed for murder.

Producers: Unknown
(IONCINEMA.com Preview Page // IMDB Link)

 
Eric Lavallée
Eric Lavalléehttps://www.ericlavallee.com
Eric Lavallée is the founder, CEO, editor-in-chief, film journalist, and critic at IONCINEMA.com, established in 2000. A regular at Sundance, Cannes, and Venice, Eric holds a BFA in film studies from the Mel Hoppenheim School of Cinema. In 2013, he served on the narrative competition jury at the SXSW Film Festival. He was an associate producer on Mark Jackson’s "This Teacher" (2018 LA Film Festival, 2018 BFI London). He is a Golden Globes Voter, member of the ICS (International Cinephile Society) and AQCC (Association québécoise des critiques de cinéma).

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