Word: joeys
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Young Joey Milano, played by Giovanni Ribisi, has left his native Brooklyn for what he terms a "vacation" in Louisiana. A rather detached teenage boy with little direction in his life, Joey has shacked up with the alluring Sissel, a seemingly feisty girl whose parents' recent separation makes her feel as though she no longer has a place in the house in which she was raised. Sissel's father, Henry, is fully aware of the fact that she and Joey are "living in sin," but he tacitly approves--in fact, their relationship gives him access to Joey's energy...
Needless to say, Sissel sees her father's manipulative tendencies all over this proposed business scheme, and she emphatically disapproves. But as Joey becomes more and more involved in his work, she draws further away, choosing to take a job at a local sugar factory rather than wait for him at home. Their relationship deteriorates to the point that conversation becomes more painful than meaningless sex, and an inevitably passive confrontation over their situation looms just in the distance...
...most alluring features of the movie is the complete character reversal Joey and Sissel appear to undergo as the story progresses, a reversal which is very well effected both by director Peretz and writer David Ryan (who, along with Peretz, adapted the screenplay from a short story written by Ian McEwan). As the movie opens, Joey comes across as naive and impressionable, perhaps even numb to outside sensation. His lack of worldly perspective is as present in his eagerness to embark on a business venture about which he knows nothing as it is in his coy admission to Sissel that...
...have to be Drew Barrymore to become a movie Cinderella. With her Dawson's role as the dewy but sensible Joey and her film debut in the thriller Disturbing Behavior, Holmes could be the hottest multimedia teen since--hey, remember Neve Campbell...
...slept here," says boy-genius programmer Joey Liaw, 19, who deferred a scholarship to Stanford to work here. In one year, he says, he's made enough money to cover two years at Stanford, which he says costs $32,000 a year...