Sundance 2009: "Toe to Toe."
So much going on in D.C. prep school drama "Toe to Toe"! Troubled, promiscuous rich white girl befriends martyrdom-happy control-freak poor black girl, they fight over a boy who won't take either seriously in the end because "non-Muslim girls are just for practice," there's lacrosse, Princeton, go-go, class dynamics, a needy *** videographer, and some wild family troubles, including one of indie film's most unintentionally camp neglectful mothers, whose all-consuming job involves flying off to exotic locales to meet with government ministers, and who takes off in a cab while her daughter shrieks, wails and claws at herself while begging her to stay. Writer/director Emily Abt approaches her economically and racially diverse setting with a well-meaning anthropological thoroughness that seems to have included finding a way to work in every note she took when looking around, and it completely overwhelms her story -- the course of the friendship that's supposedly...
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