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With Sarah Boyd, Rainbow Harvest, Neill Barry, Alyssa Milano. Twelve-year-old Lonnie Sloan is a well-to-do New York rich kid and Karen Bruckner is the more ordinary, impoverished New York kid. They happen to meet one day on the street in their neighborhood and hit it off.
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- Drama
- Marisa Silver
- 1984-01
Sarah Boyd as Lonnie Sloan; Rainbow Harvest as Karen Bruckner; Neill Barry as Johnny Bruckner; Danny Aiello as Mr. Bruckner; Susan Kingsley as Mrs. Bruckner; Alyssa Milano as Diane Sloan; Fran Brill as Mrs. Sloan; Gerry Bamman as Mr. Sloan; Roxanne Hart as Carla; Tristine Skyler as Sarah
Rent Old Enough on Prime Video, or buy it on Prime Video. Lonnie (Sarah Boyd) a 12-year-old with a privileged life, comes from an upper-class family. When she meets Karen (Rainbow Harvest),...
- Marisa Silver
- Drama
- Sarah Boyd
- A Young Woman’S Approach to Writing Young Women
- The Adolescent Gaze
- A(N appropriately) Naïve Take on Race
- Looking Up and Talking Down
- Conclusion
I never fully appreciate the differences in how female characters are portrayed when directed by men versus women until I see something like Old Enough. It’s a wonderful thing, to see women and girls in film playing with and up against each other in ways that are neither annoying to us nor antagonistic to each other, neither silly nor self-serious ...
Silver’s depiction of girlhood, womanhood, and femininity is complicated immensely with the arrival of Carla (Roxanne Hart), the slender, trendy 32-year-old who moves into the previously empty apartment above Karen’s family home. Karen has seen Carla on the street before and immediately admires her aura and style. There’s a great moment when the ki...
While the film is undeniably an impressive debut, especially knowing it came from the writing and direction of a 23-year-old, there are certainly areas where Silver’s own youth and naivety almost come into focus. Regarding race, for instance, I wasn’t sure what to make of Lonnie’s solo adventure into Carla’s working neighborhood, where she is quick...
The generational divide could easily be a projection of my own frustrated view of the split between baby boomers and millennials, wherein my generation – even as we’ve become adults – still often feels like a child punctuating every answer the grown-ups give them with a “But why?” or “How come?” (and I don’t think this is a fault, by any means). To...
The primary flaw with Old Enough is that it’s difficult to pinpoint exactly what that flaw is—there is a lot going on in this 90-minute movie, thematically and on a scene-by-scene basis, and it might be just a bit too much for a story centered on such young protagonists. I can see what Silver was going for and I admire the premise of depicting youn...
- Sasha Kohan
Released in the summer of 1984, Old Enough tells the simple coming-of-age story of the friendship that develops between wealthy pre-teen Lonnie (Sarah Boyd) and working class teen Karen (Rainbow Harvest) in New York City.
Twelve-year-old Lonnie Sloan is a well-to-do New York rich kid and Karen Bruckner is the more ordinary, impoverished New York kid. They happen to meet one day on the street in their neighborhood and hit it off (In HD). Free trial of Shout! Factory TV, rent, or buy.
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Aug 24, 1984 · Lonnie (Sarah Boyd), the barely adolescent heroine of Marisa Silver's ''Old Enough,'' gives her age as ''almost 11 3/4,'' which makes her new friend, Karen (Rainbow Harvest), seem grown up...
