Four teen girls teeter on the precipice of uncertain futures in Nick Richey’s debut feature, “Low Low,” as the budding auteur’s realistic style nicely complements the precise performances, giving each actor an empathetic path into her character’s psyche. While the narrative occasionally falters, the visceral way in which the writer-director captures his subjects’ triumphs and travails provides an unflinching portrait of modern teens on the fringes of society.
In the final days of high school, Ryan (Ali Richey) is understandably worried about graduating. There aren’t many prospects for a working-class teen in Vancouver, Wash.. Her troubled home life, beset by a contentious relationship with her single mom Sylvia (Elaine Hendrix) and her mom’s revolving door of slacker boyfriends, has caused her to act out — a rebellion fueled by angst, drugs and booze. Surprisingly, she’s managed to show great potential with her schoolwork, impressing her teacher Dr.
In the final days of high school, Ryan (Ali Richey) is understandably worried about graduating. There aren’t many prospects for a working-class teen in Vancouver, Wash.. Her troubled home life, beset by a contentious relationship with her single mom Sylvia (Elaine Hendrix) and her mom’s revolving door of slacker boyfriends, has caused her to act out — a rebellion fueled by angst, drugs and booze. Surprisingly, she’s managed to show great potential with her schoolwork, impressing her teacher Dr.
- 8/15/2019
- by Courtney Howard
- Variety Film + TV
DVD Release Date: Jan. 31, 2012
Price: DVD $24.98
Studio: Entertainment One
Savannah Stehlin is Spork.
Written and directed by debuting feature filmmaker J.B. Ghuman Jr., the 2010 independent musical comedy movie Spork is intriguingly hyped as “Glee Meets Napoleon Dynamite.” Hmmmm….
The coming-of-age film spins the tale of a frizzy-haired, pink-cheeked outcast named Spork (Savannah Stehlin, TV’s Sleeper Cell) who is trying to navigate her way through the hell that is junior high. When a school dance show provides an opportunity for Spork to show up a mean-girls gang, her trailer-park neighbor Tootsie Roll (Sydney Park) steps up to coach her with some “booty-poppin’” moves. With a little positive thinking and a lot of practice, Spork finds herself on the way to both standing out and fitting in.
Featuring a bunch of colorful, foul-mouthed musical numbers and a vintage 1990s soundtrack (which includes Jj Fad’s “SuperSonic” and 2-Live Crew’s “Get...
Price: DVD $24.98
Studio: Entertainment One
Savannah Stehlin is Spork.
Written and directed by debuting feature filmmaker J.B. Ghuman Jr., the 2010 independent musical comedy movie Spork is intriguingly hyped as “Glee Meets Napoleon Dynamite.” Hmmmm….
The coming-of-age film spins the tale of a frizzy-haired, pink-cheeked outcast named Spork (Savannah Stehlin, TV’s Sleeper Cell) who is trying to navigate her way through the hell that is junior high. When a school dance show provides an opportunity for Spork to show up a mean-girls gang, her trailer-park neighbor Tootsie Roll (Sydney Park) steps up to coach her with some “booty-poppin’” moves. With a little positive thinking and a lot of practice, Spork finds herself on the way to both standing out and fitting in.
Featuring a bunch of colorful, foul-mouthed musical numbers and a vintage 1990s soundtrack (which includes Jj Fad’s “SuperSonic” and 2-Live Crew’s “Get...
- 12/17/2011
- by Laurence
- Disc Dish
Title: Spork Director: J.B. Ghuman, Jr. Starring: Savannah Stehlin, Sydney Park, Rachel Fox, Michael Arnold, Sydney Park, Beth Grant, Oana Gregory, Chad Allen, Yeardley Smith The laboriously quirky low-fi coming-of-age comedy ‘Spork’, from writer-director J. B. Ghuman, Jr., serves as a reminder that the words “original” and “good” are not necessarily interchangeable. Heck, this low-budget offering isn’t even all that original, in fact, just constructed of parts to bait one into the false feeling that it is so. ‘Spork’ centers around a frizzy-haired, small town junior high outcast (Savannah Stehlin) — so nicknamed because her absentee mother told her before splitting that she was a hermaphrodite — and her bangle-bracleted...
- 5/30/2011
- by bsimon
- ShockYa
Reviewed by Khia Beauchesne
(May 2011)
Directed/Written by: J.B. Ghuman Jr.
Starring: Savannah Stehlin, Sydney Park and Rachel G. Fox
Teenagers are confusing as it is, but their depiction in the film “Spork” makes them even more bewildering. Spork (Savannah Stehlin) is a 14-year-old hermaphrodite with an overly passive personality that makes her difficult for viewers to relate to or sympathize with. Raised as a girl by her older brother after their mother died and father left, Spork has all the opportunities to grow into an interesting character with an original story — yet the film doesn’t quite capture it that way.
Spork is an awkward young girl easily labeled an outcast. Her family is so poor and bizarre that they buried her mom in the backyard, ironically overgrown with weeds that Spork is deathly allergic to. She also kept and stuffed their pet dog Buster after his death. She...
(May 2011)
Directed/Written by: J.B. Ghuman Jr.
Starring: Savannah Stehlin, Sydney Park and Rachel G. Fox
Teenagers are confusing as it is, but their depiction in the film “Spork” makes them even more bewildering. Spork (Savannah Stehlin) is a 14-year-old hermaphrodite with an overly passive personality that makes her difficult for viewers to relate to or sympathize with. Raised as a girl by her older brother after their mother died and father left, Spork has all the opportunities to grow into an interesting character with an original story — yet the film doesn’t quite capture it that way.
Spork is an awkward young girl easily labeled an outcast. Her family is so poor and bizarre that they buried her mom in the backyard, ironically overgrown with weeds that Spork is deathly allergic to. She also kept and stuffed their pet dog Buster after his death. She...
- 5/24/2011
- by admin
- Moving Pictures Magazine
Reviewed by Khia Beauchesne
(May 2011)
Directed/Written by: J.B. Ghuman Jr.
Starring: Savannah Stehlin, Sydney Park and Rachel G. Fox
Teenagers are confusing as it is, but their depiction in the film “Spork” makes them even more bewildering. Spork (Savannah Stehlin) is a 14-year-old hermaphrodite with an overly passive personality that makes her difficult for viewers to relate to or sympathize with. Raised as a girl by her older brother after their mother died and father left, Spork has all the opportunities to grow into an interesting character with an original story — yet the film doesn’t quite capture it that way.
Spork is an awkward young girl easily labeled an outcast. Her family is so poor and bizarre that they buried her mom in the backyard, ironically overgrown with weeds that Spork is deathly allergic to. She also kept and stuffed their pet dog Buster after his death. She...
(May 2011)
Directed/Written by: J.B. Ghuman Jr.
Starring: Savannah Stehlin, Sydney Park and Rachel G. Fox
Teenagers are confusing as it is, but their depiction in the film “Spork” makes them even more bewildering. Spork (Savannah Stehlin) is a 14-year-old hermaphrodite with an overly passive personality that makes her difficult for viewers to relate to or sympathize with. Raised as a girl by her older brother after their mother died and father left, Spork has all the opportunities to grow into an interesting character with an original story — yet the film doesn’t quite capture it that way.
Spork is an awkward young girl easily labeled an outcast. Her family is so poor and bizarre that they buried her mom in the backyard, ironically overgrown with weeds that Spork is deathly allergic to. She also kept and stuffed their pet dog Buster after his death. She...
- 5/24/2011
- by admin
- Moving Pictures Network
Title: Spork Directed By: J.B. Ghuman Jr. Starring: Savannah Stehlin, Sydney Park, Rachel G. Fox, Michael William Arnold, Oana Gregory, Kevin Chung, Keith David, Rodney Eastman Sure, there’s no harm in getting a laugh out of the classic tasteless poop and penis jokes once in a while, but ultimately, they’re thoughtless cheap shots. Spork on the other hand, is quite the opposite, a film that earns its giggles through very calculated efforts including a unique story, equally innovative and appropriate production techniques and, most importantly, a main character who’s incredibly odd, yet wildly endearing all at the same time. If Napoleon Dynamite‘s Napoleon and Deb lived happily ever after and...
- 5/22/2011
- by Perri Nemiroff
- ShockYa
[Editor's note: If anyone says 2010 was a sh!% year for movies, please refer them to this post.]
Instead of the usual "best" or "worst" films of the year lists, I thought a good way to take a look at the highs and lows of the 2010 film year would be to compile almost every single review we published in 2010 and let readers meander through the wasteland as it were.
I'm really amazed at the range of films we managed to cover from around the globe this year. Quiet Earth has certainly come a long way over the years and it's really due to the talents and passion of our team of writers who literally travel a world of fests to bring news and reviews of new films.
I hope you're all taking notes. Many of these films were from fests and will probably be hitting VOD and Blu-ray sometime in the new year, so this is a good chance to get a start on your must-watch lists.
The...
Instead of the usual "best" or "worst" films of the year lists, I thought a good way to take a look at the highs and lows of the 2010 film year would be to compile almost every single review we published in 2010 and let readers meander through the wasteland as it were.
I'm really amazed at the range of films we managed to cover from around the globe this year. Quiet Earth has certainly come a long way over the years and it's really due to the talents and passion of our team of writers who literally travel a world of fests to bring news and reviews of new films.
I hope you're all taking notes. Many of these films were from fests and will probably be hitting VOD and Blu-ray sometime in the new year, so this is a good chance to get a start on your must-watch lists.
The...
- 12/31/2010
- QuietEarth.us
Year: 2010
Directors: J.B. Ghuman Jr.
Writers: J.B. Ghuman Jr.
IMDb: link
Trailer: link
Review by: Bob Doto
Rating: 7 out of 10
Spork, directed by Jb Ghuman Jr., is a sweet little film dressed in an 80s veneer about a young girl-identified hermaphrodite named Spork (Savannah Stehlin) making her way through the vicious absurdity that is Junior High. We meet Spork at rock bottom, where it seems everyone, including a gaggle of Britney Spears-obsessed tween girls, has it in for her. Spork has nowhere to turn until her Krump-tastic friend Tootsie Roll (Sydney Park) breaks her leg and can no longer perform in the upcoming talent show. In order to make something, anything, of herself, Spork decides to try her skill-less moves out in order to win the prize. All’s well that ends well….
…if that was all Spork had to offer. Luckily for us, Spork is a lot more...
Directors: J.B. Ghuman Jr.
Writers: J.B. Ghuman Jr.
IMDb: link
Trailer: link
Review by: Bob Doto
Rating: 7 out of 10
Spork, directed by Jb Ghuman Jr., is a sweet little film dressed in an 80s veneer about a young girl-identified hermaphrodite named Spork (Savannah Stehlin) making her way through the vicious absurdity that is Junior High. We meet Spork at rock bottom, where it seems everyone, including a gaggle of Britney Spears-obsessed tween girls, has it in for her. Spork has nowhere to turn until her Krump-tastic friend Tootsie Roll (Sydney Park) breaks her leg and can no longer perform in the upcoming talent show. In order to make something, anything, of herself, Spork decides to try her skill-less moves out in order to win the prize. All’s well that ends well….
…if that was all Spork had to offer. Luckily for us, Spork is a lot more...
- 5/4/2010
- QuietEarth.us
J.B. Ghuman doesn't mind you telling him that his movie is weird-- in fact, he and his stars have hand signals to support their love for the giant dose of weirdness that is Spork, a little comedy about growing up weird and lonely in an era that is such a weird mix of the 80s and 90s that Ghuman calls it, simply, "19J.B." Last weekend I caught up with Ghuman and the young actresses Savannah Stehlin (who plays the odd but endearing Spork) and Sydney Park (playing the ball of fire that is Spork's only friend Tootsie Roll), and it was kind of as if the three of them let me in on their weekly brunch date, for all the giggling and inside jokes that were going on. In the film Stehlin stars as the title character, a hermaphrodite with terrible fashion sense and social skills who musters...
- 4/29/2010
- cinemablend.com
Oana, Michael, Savannah, and Sydney TribecaFilm.com: So who wants to tell me about Spork ? Savannah Stehlin [Spork]: I will! Spork is basically about a 14-year-old hermaphrodite who is not really loving life. She's kind of anti-social, introverted, and she doesn't really get herself or get why people are the way they are. She lives in a trailer park with her older brother, Spit. And her next-door neighbor is Tootsie Roll and her mom, Mrs. Roll. Tootsie Roll was originally going to do a dance-off, but she hurts herself and Spork steps in. Spork is also bullied by Loosie Goosie and Betsy Byotch... But at the end of the movie, she realizes that the person she was looking for to be was really just herself. You don't have to like confine to the ways of the world kind of thing. That's it in a nutshell. TribecaFilm.com: That's very good.
- 4/19/2010
- TribecaFilm.com
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