Going in a race, two teenager guys from different social class, one is rich and the other from a working class, destroy a big restaurant at the country, so they have to spend the summer holiday in repairing the restaurant, the thing that challenges their friendship, as they fall for the beautiful girl of the owner.
[Director Mark Piznarski]should be cited for excessive use of slow motion, sun-dappled trees and golden light; one more cliche violation and his license to direct would be forfeit.
On the bright side, Here on Earth does present viewers with a couple of handy rules to avoid bad movies. Beware of any movie that has characters reciting poetry to each other.
Here on Earth hungers for the nostalgia of an Elia Kazan-style farmbelt romantic tragedy à la East of Eden, but the end result is more akin to a soggy Troy Donahue-Sandra Dee weeper.
NutzWorld
March 14, 2001
Demonstrates the lowest, most unscrupulous technique of filmmaking -- it involves no imagination, creativity, or original ideas.
Variety
January 01, 2000
Dramatically, the tragedy couldn't possibly be flatter.
Washington Post
January 01, 2000
Lazily conceived characters.
Citysearch
January 01, 2000
Here on Earth plods along predictably, hammering home its moral points and struggling to spin a spiritual haze around the kids' romance.
Northwest Herald (Crystal Lake, IL)
June 20, 2002
This is just the type of "dignified" tragedy Louis B. Mayer loved to churn out in the 1940s, where characters - even the unsavory ones - acted so noble they practically turned to statues before your eyes.
Detroit Free Press
January 01, 2000
For a movie about the ferocity of first love, it seems curiously pallid and passionless.
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Annabelle: Creation
2017
IMDb: 7
109 min
Country: United States
Genre: Thriller, Horror, Mystery
Twelve years after the tragic death of their little girl, a dollmaker and his wife welcome a
nun and several girls from a shuttered orphanage into ...
