Electrick Children

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  • Opened March 8, 2013 
  • 1 hr 35 min
  • R | Language, including brief sexual references

  • On Rachel's 15th birthday, she discovers a forbidden cassette tape with rock music on it. Having never heard anything like it, Rachel has a miraculous experience. Three months later, Rachel turns up pregnant and claims to have had an immaculate conception from listening to the music. Rachel's parents, arrange a marriage for her, but she runs off with her brother "Mr. Will," to Las Vegas, to search for the man who sings on the tape, thinking he has something to do with her mysterious pregnancy. There they meet Clyde, a young rocker who challenges everything they've been taught and changes the way they see the world. Full synopsis

  • Cast: Julia Garner, Rory Culkin, Liam Aiken, Bill Sage, Cynthia M. Watros
  • Director: Rebecca Thomas
  • Genres: Drama

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Slant Magazine
| Chuck Bowen

Rebecca Thomas's debut feature is a sensible and humane exploration of youthful curiosity. Read full review

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Village Voice
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Electrick Children juggles heavy things, with humor and sobriety in their proper, Book of Ecclesiastes turn. Best of all, Thomas has an aversion to the easy resolution—she knows precisely which mysteries to keep dangling. Read full review

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Time Out New York
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The best moments in filmmaker Rebecca Thomas’s debut feature manage flashes of wide-eyed grace — that is, when the overly precious, half-formed story isn’t undermining her understated direction and the work of a fine cast. Read full review

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Total Film
| Paul Bradshaw

Careful, kids – rock’n’roll can get you pregnant. Or that’s what one Mormon teen believes in this cute lo-fi indie from first-timer Rebecca Thomas. Read full review

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Julia Garner in "Electrick Children."