As Cool As I Am
A precocious teen (Sarah Bolger) has a sexual awakening and later find out that her self-centered parents had her when they were teenagers and their marriage is not as strong as she thought.
6 September 1972, Bloomfield, Connecticut, USA
16 December 1961, Princeton, New Jersey, USA
19 September 1960, Seattle, Washington, USA
13 June 1993, Brazil
18 September 1973, Stillwater, Oklahoma, USA
30 October 1989, Albuquerque, New Mexico, USA
6 March 1993, Albuquerque, New Mexico, USA
27 September 1991, Portland, Oregon, USA
30 May 1986, New York City, New York, USA
June 06, 2013
The film is the cinematic equivalent of a teenager, making everything more melodramatic than it needs to be, and impatient with the subtle details of life.
June 07, 2013
Oh no: Claire Danes as the mom? Already? What's next, Chelsea Clinton for president?
June 04, 2013
Mayer doesn't find a way to make the ritual traumas of adolescence feel new again.
June 07, 2013
Simplistic plotting, pedestrian visuals and poorly-handled melodrama do lend the project a cheap, made-for-TV feel, which is underscored by the fact that Danes and Marsden don't seem obliged to turn in their best work.
February 10, 2014
The familiarity of the narrative - the movie does, after all, include such coming-of-age touchstones as first love and irresponsible parents - grows more and more problematic as time progresses...
June 06, 2013
It is as if chunks of the film had landed on the editing-room floor in a desperate, last-minute attempt to trim its length. Just when its parts should come together, "As Cool as I Am" crumbles to bits.
June 27, 2013
This coming-of-age drama might trade in familiar narrative developments, but its characterization is rather nuanced.
