How to Deal
For teenager Halley, love seems like an alien concept. She is disillusioned by too many examples of love gone wrong, refuses to believe that true love exists. But, when Halley meets edgy Macon, she learns what love is really all about.
12 May 1973, Los Angeles, California, USA
19 December 1973, Clarksdale, Mississippi, USA
29 December 1978, Ankara, Turkey
15 January 1979, Akron, Ohio, USA
7 October 1959, Syracuse, New York, USA
19 August 1955, New York City, New York, USA
21 October 1983, Toronto, Ontario, Canada
19 November 1959, Dayton, Ohio, USA
December 24, 2010
Even Moore fans may find this hard to deal with.
February 13, 2004
Will enthral pre-teen chippies with its wholesome, marshmallow-peep-sweet vacuous-ness.
July 19, 2003
Painless to watch, but it's marred by some significant flaws.
September 20, 2003
In delivering its message of teen perseverence, How to Deal piles on "issues" without finding a reasonable connective narrative.
July 18, 2003
A bad, unimaginative story posing pretentiously as the very opposite.
July 21, 2003
I've seen a lot of dumb teen romances in the last couple years, but How to Deal, is a welcome exception.
July 18, 2003
Another soundtrack-driven, disposable, not entirely objectionable teen movie.
July 19, 2003
After a while the bad lighting, graceless editing, sluggish dialogue and self-conscious performances begin to seem like marks of authenticity, as if the movie had been made not just for and about teenagers, but by them.
September 20, 2004
Fails to acknowledge the real problems teenagers face.
August 05, 2003
Overcrowded with characters and subplots, the film gives short shrift to the parts that should matter.
July 31, 2003
The pop diva goes down with the bubbles in this hopelessly shallow soap opera.
January 02, 2004
[T]his is a movie that teenage girls -- and nearly no one else -- should enjoy.
