Lost and Delirious | | Cast : | Piper Perabo, Jessica Paré | | Director : | Léa Pool | | Studio : | Studio Home Entertainment | | Format : | Color, Closed-captioned, Widescreen, Dolby | | Released Date : | July 20, 2001 | | DVD Released Date : | December 09, 2003 | | Language : | English (Dubbed), English (Subtitled), Spanish (Subtitled), English (Original Language) | | Audience Rating : | R (Restricted) | | | BUY THIS DVD FROM AMAZON |
Customer Reviews
| Rating |  | | Date | July 20, 2005 | | Summary | Piper Shines and Mischa shows us all she's not a freaking idiot | Content
 | Piper is amazing and heartbreaking. Mischa who's performance on the OC sucks, shows ha! she actually can act. Lawn Dogs is a gem an absolute Gem. Lost and Delirious is all piper tho, amazing actress you do it woman. |
| Rating | | | Date | July 19, 2005 | | Summary | Surprising | Content
| This movie started off deceptively well...unfortunately the story devolved into a cringe fest. The two main actors potrayed their characters realistically, and a younger Mischa Barton (of O.C. fame) appears to have started off a more competant actress than she has become.
Overall, I can't say I enjoyed it, it is one of those movies that will be hard to watch again. However, worth a watch. |
| Rating | | | Date | July 11, 2005 | | Summary | Better late that never (literally!) | Content
| This film arrived too late for the young women growing up in the 60s, 70s and maybe even 80s who felt alone and freakish in a world that had no room for gays or lesbians. Of course, I can't speak for them myself, but I can imagine how it must have been, how it still is sometimes. Any films made during those years would have only reinforced horrific, negative stereotypes about lesbians (think "The Children's Hour" without the surprising tinge of sympathy).
"Lost and Delirious" is certainly not the first film of the 21st century to come along and portray same gender love in a less than monstrous light, but is one of the most easily accessible and less preachy ones. It could be about anyone who has ever been a misfit and fallen in love against everyone else's wishes.
Different people will bring their own history to this tale, but for many it is all too realistic. Even if you gently push the love story aspects aside, the portrayal of life in an all-girls' school is so accurate it almost hurts to watch. It's a sad part of life that many girls are cruel to each other during the teen years, but throw in the fact that two classmates who happen to be of the same sex fall in love with each other and suddenly hearts are being thrown in the meshing machine.
I swore I wouldn't cry while I watched this, I swore, but Piper Perabo is just too good and too convincing as a young woman torn apart inside by her own feelings. Her vulnerability and the way her classmates (most of all the girl she loves) treat her lead to an intense breaking point that would leave the coldest person in the world in tears. It's been a while since I've seen "Lost and Delirious" (even longer since I've been a teenager and been quite lost myself), but the film has always stayed with me...there are so many images, but as with many stories that are exceptional it's a simple scene that lingers: one where Piper Perabo's character forges a special relationship with a hawk, a bird that gives her more love than any human she encounters along the way.
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| Rating | | | Date | June 09, 2005 | | Summary | Peter Pan's Lost Boys...Lost Girls, "Lost and Delirious," | Content
| Therein lies the title for this movie. This is definitely a two kleenex box movie. Three girls, two in love with each other. One willing to give everything the other is choked by the hands of society, and her parents, holding firmly to her throat.
This movie is well acted, well scripted, full of poignancy.
Check out "Show Me Love," to recover. It has much more profanity
but in another language, you can glance over the bad words, it wasn't distracting, go figure. |
| Rating | | | Date | June 05, 2005 | | Summary | VERY VERY BAD | Content
| I felt that I had to write this review to warn others about just how bad this movie is. After reading the other reviews about how great this movie is, I gave it a shot but I was SORRILY disappointed. I ended up fast-forwarding through most of the film to see when it was going to get better, but it didn't-it just got worse and worse. It's impossible to have any kind of emotional grasp on the characters or the film since the movie primarily consists of empty cliches and tired lines and acting. The emotions that the actors do try to project come across as phony and unrealistic and take place in an incredibly bad story line. Even the brief love scenes were hollow and not worth a watch. All-in-all, the movie was totally boring, incapable of being interesting, involving, or entertaining in any way. I threw my copy in the garbage-PLEASE rent before you buy or you will be wasting your money. If your looking for a heart-warming tale, I recommend "The Incredibly True Adventures of Two Girls in Love." I also recommend "Tipping the Velvet" which is brilliant and entertaining. |
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