IMHO Ella Prunell looked exactly her actual age in this. Sorry, but I could not believe her being 14 for a moment! This spoils the entire film for me. Neither the uncle's, the hotel boy's or Bart's reactions make the same sense if we add those four years.
(Not that this would have been a favourite of mine otherwise. I think the directing and cinematography were unimaginative and gave the film a made for TV feeling.)
Definitely something creepy about you wishing she looked 14.
sharePersonally I think she looks much younger than her age and could pass for 14...especially if you scrubbed all that make up off her face.
So it ruined it for you that you thought she didn't?
You thought the Uncle and Bruce Greenwood should have gone for it and there would be nothing wrong judging by the way you thought she looked?
It wouldn't matter..If she's 14 she's 14. Some girls do look older than their age but it still doesn't make it right.
I don't know what movie you were watching. She looked far younger than her actual age at the time, especially without the heavy eye make up.
shareTheir never too young for some people, huh?
I don't know everything. Neither does anyone else
That's true. If this guy is looking for younger, maybe Subway will sponsor him.
shareI don't get the reference to Subway (I'm not American) but I guess this is a way to call me a paedophile? Well, I'm not (but you can believe whatever you want) and I did not find her too mature-looking in the (nonexistent) sex scenes but in the ones where she is unable to communicate. As when she is following Rene for a long time without proposing that they should hike together. This beheviour would be believable only from somebody who is much more childish.
shareSome 14 year olds look 12, and some look like they could be 18. To me she definitely looked like a teenager--and until we found out her age in the movie I was assuming she was meant to be 15 or 16.
I understand what you are saying: you were seeing "childish" behaviors from someone who did not look to you like a child and that made the movie less believable.
I can only say that (1) girls in their teens can look either much older or much younger than their actual age and (2) victims of sexual abuse (or other abuses) can sometimes behave in ways that seem very immature for their actual age (thumbsucking, bedwetting, talking in a "baby" voice, etc). As soon as I saw the way her character pulled her hands inside of her sleeves, I knew that something was up.
What was important in the movie was not the girl's age--it was her level of maturity in an emotional and mental sense. I think that the story still works whether she's supposed to be 14, 12, or even 18. Even if you set aside her age, this is a girl whose father has recently died and whose mother is suffering from either mental illness, drug addiction, or both. She is in an incredibly vulnerable position, and from that point of view all of her actions and reactions to things made sense to me.
She was 15 when she made this movie you know… it just took time for it to be released.
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