Movie Review - "The Little Girl Who Lives Down The Lane"

Wow. Now there's a grim little flick. Jodie Foster plays a creepy adolescent who's got a few too many secrets.

At first I thought that it was a made-for-TV movie, thanks mainly to the cheesy soundtrack, which was chock-full of that seventies' "wocka-wocka" music more common to porn films, but the scene with Martin Sheen and the hamster (no, not porn (heh)), made me think it was a theatrical release, cause I kinda doubt they would have shown that on TV back in the day.

Oh, and Jodie Foster's nude scene made me pretty uncomfortable. I mean, she was fourteen when she made the movie, and she was portraying a thirteen-year-old, and they had to put in a nude scene? But then I checked it out on IMDB, and it turns out that her older sister did the scene, because Jodie refused. Good for you, Jodie! But yo, older sister, what were you thinking? The character's thirteen, for pete's sake!

So! All in all it was interesting, even the over-the-top hamminess by the woman playing the landlady. (Alexis Smith, who, according to IMDB, was in, like, a billion movies. I wonder if she over-acted in all of them.) But if you're squeamish, look away when Martin Sheen picks up the hamster. A word to the wise.