Movie Review : Flipped

Rob Reiner direct a movie with genre romantic

comedy drama and release in 2010. The title of the
movie is Flipped. This movie is adapted of the novel
with same title by Wendelin Van Draanen. Flipped tell
us about first love between Juli Baker (Madeline
Carroll) and Bryce Loski (Callan McAuliffe).
In 1957, when second-graders Bryce Loski and
Juli Baker first meet. Juli has been in love with her
neighbor, Bryce. She loves everything about him, from
his piercing brown eyes to smell of his hair. However,
Bryce rejects Juli completely and actively trying to get
rid of her.
In 1963, Brycea grandfather, Chet Duncan
moves in with the family. Chet finds Juli different from the the other girls, special and rare a
kind of girl whos hardd to comke across. Chet and Juli form a strong friendship over time
whole he helps her work on her messy lawn.
In eighth grade, everything begins to change. Bryce begins to see Juli in a way that
hes never seen her before. But his change of heart may have come too late. Because her
feelings completely disappear when she overhears him and Garret talking about her mentally
challenged uncle, and sees him throwing away the eggs she gave him. Juli tells Bryce she
never wants to speak to him again.
The way Flipped is presented, first telling a story through the eyes and thoughts of
Bryce and then again through th eyes and thoughts of Juli, could have easily been a disaster
in less capable hands, but the audience sometimes feels bored by the repetition. Nearly every
event in the film is told at least twice, because you are so invested in the characters, you
actually begin to eagerly anticipate what the other side of the story will be.
Flipped is overly simple period young love story, but its the films heart, reality, and
creative storytelling that saves it. To sum up, this film was very satisfactory.

When second-graders Bryce and Juli first meet, Juli knows it's love. Bryce isn't so sure.
Beginning that day, and for the next six years, young Bryce (Callan McAuliffe) does
everything he can to keep his outspoken wannabe girlfriend at arm's length...which isn't easy
since they go to the same school and live across the street from each other. Smart, dreamy,
independent and willing to stand up for what she believes in, Juli (Madeline Carroll) is
different from anyone else he knows and, frankly, More
Rating:
PG (for language and some thematic material)
Genre:
Drama , Romance , Comedy
Directed By:
Rob Reiner
Written By:
Rob Reiner , Andrew Scheinman
In Theaters:
Aug 6, 2010 Limited
On DVD:
Nov 23, 2010
US Box Office:
$1.8M
Runtime:
1 hr. 29 min.
Suburban America in the late 1950s and early 60s as depicted in Flipped, Rob Reiners
sentimental ode to puppy love in that innocent era, might as well be another world, for all its
resemblance to the one we live in today. Mind you, it isnt paradise. But as the movies
soundtrack of golden oldies unwinds in the background, you cant help being struck by the
romantic optimism and modesty of early rock n roll ditties cranked out in the years before
the term high-tech entered the vocabulary.

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As Mr. Reiner showed in his 1986 film, Stand by Me, he has a feel for the era. (He was
born in 1947.) In Flipped, adapted from a young-adult novel by Wendelin Van Draanen,

with a screenplay by Mr. Reiner and Andrew Scheinman, the period is visualized with an
almost surreal fixation on detail and atmosphere. Even the songs are chronologically synced
to the six years during which its two main characters, Juli Baker (Madeline Carroll) and
Bryce Loski (Callan McAuliffe), proceed from grade school to junior high.
This wisp of a movie observes the evolving relationship of Juli and Bryce, who live across
the street from each other. The two take turns narrating the story in a she-said, he-said format,
as they recall the same incidents. Juli, the more willful of the two, remembers the moment
she flipped for Bryce on the day her family moved into the house across the street from his.
It was something in those dazzling eyes, she says. From their very first contact, Bryce
shuns her to pursue a policy he calls strategic avoidance, but Juli makes a beeline for him at
every opportunity.
that flipped isnt insufferably cute is a measure of its integrity. but it still strains to view
the world through the eyes of children without a filter of grown-up cynicism. it is plodding
and awkwardly paced. and the dual perspectives arent different enough to justify showing
the same scenes from opposite points of view.
Of the two children, Juli is the spunkier. To prevent a sycamore from being cut down by the
local authorities, she climbs to the top of it and refuses to come down. When Bryce remarks
about the scruffy condition of the Bakers front yard, Juli embarks on a landscaping
makeover. She raises chickens and sells eggs, and her school science project about hatching
chicks wins a prize.
Bryce, by comparison, is a cipher prone to telling little white lies, although Mr. McAuliffe
infuses him with enough charm, sincerity and introspection to make him likable.
Neither household comes close to Leave It to Beaver perfection. The Loskis are a notch
above the Bakers on the economic ladder but a notch below in character. Bryces insecure,
disappointed father, Steven (Anthony Edwards), takes an unseemly pleasure in looking down
on his neighbors. In a scene fraught with tension, Stevens outgoing wife, Patsy (Rebecca De
Mornay), insists on having the Bakers to dinner, and trouble erupts. The movies moral
grounding wire is Patsys father, Chet (John Mahoney), a twinkling font of grandfatherly
wisdom, who befriends Juli.
Julis parents, Richard (Aidan Quinn) and Trina (Penelope Ann Miller), are short of funds
because Richard is paying for the institutionalization of his mentally disabled brother, Daniel
(Kevin Weisman).
If the movies cozy ending leaves you feeling warm and gooey as Juli and Bryce finally
achieve dtente, it obscures the probability that these puppy lovers are a mismatch. What is
the expression? Handsome is as handsome does. And the dazzling eyes that drew Juli to
Bryce dont do much besides sparkle.
Flipped is rated PG (Parental Guidance suggested). It has parental shouting matches that
could frighten young children.
FLIPPED

Opens on Friday nationwide.

Directed by Rob Reiner; written by Mr. Reiner and Andrew Scheinman, based on the novel
by Wendelin Van Draanen; director of photography, Thomas Del Ruth; edited by Robert
Leighton; music by Marc Shaiman; production designer, Bill Brzeski; costumes by Durinda
Wood; produced by Mr. Reiner, Alan Greisman and Liz Glotzer; released by Warner Brothers
Pictures. Running time: 1 hour 28 minutes.
WITH: Madeline Carroll (Juli Baker), Callan McAuliffe (Bryce Loski), Rebecca De Mornay
(Patsy Loski), Anthony Edwards (Steven Loski), John Mahoney (Chet Duncan), Penelope
Ann Miller (Trina Baker), Aidan Quinn (Richard Baker) and Kevin Weisman (Daniel

In 1957, when second-graders Bryce Loski and Julianna "Juli" Baker first meet, Juli knows
it's love, but Bryce isn't so sure. Girl-phobic and easily embarrassed, young Bryce does
everything he can to keep away as much as possible from Juli for the next six years, which
isn't easy since they go to the same school and live across the street from each other. When
they start the sixth grade, Bryce hopes that he can get rid of Juli so he asks the girl Juli hates
the most, Sherry Stalls, out on a date. This plan of Bryce's works for a while up until his best
friend, Garrett, takes an interest in Sherry and tells her the truth about Bryce asking her out.
Juli finds out Bryce and Sherry break up; she goes back to her regular Bryce-obsessed self.
from juli's point of view, when she and bryce first met, he returned her feelings but was just
shy and embarrassed. when he "held her hand" she thought she would get her first kiss from
him in the second grade. juli knew that she was flipped from then on. after finding out that
bryce and sherry broke up, she thought she could have her old bryce back. she spent the
whole year smelling his watermelon-scented hair and wondering if she'd ever get his kiss.
In 1963, now in seventh grade, Bryce's grandfather Chet Duncan moves in with the family.
Chet finds Juli different, special, and a rare kind of girl who's hard to come across. He
continues to tell Bryce this with hope. There's a large, old sycamore tree that Juli loves which
no one understands. One day, it's cut down by the owner in spite of Juli's protest and dismay.
Her voice narrates her love for the tree that let her see the world in a much more enlightened
way.
Chet and Juli form a strong friendship over time while he helps her work on her messy lawn.
Bryce begins to develop feelings for Juli just as Juli begins to question her feelings about
Bryce. Her feelings completely disappear when she overhears him and Garrett talking about
her mentally challenged uncle, and sees him throwing away the eggs she gave him. Juli tells
Bryce she never wants to speak to him again when she and her family get invited to the
Loski's house for a sit down dinner which ends up with Bryce's dad being considerably rude
to her family. At the dinner she confronts him about what Bryce said about her uncle and tells
him she doesn't want to speak to him again, not ever. During dinner, they sit opposite each
other, she never talks or makes eye contact with him. After dinner she apologizes for the way
she acted. Bryce is upset that she apologizes, because that means that she doesn't care enough
to hold a grudge.

She continues to have mixed feelings when the basket boy auction is just around the corner.
She hears that Sherry is planning to bid on Bryce against another one of the school's "finest"
girls. Bryce thinks that Juli is planning on bidding for him because he hears she walked in
with a wad of cash (which she wasn't planning on having with her). Bryce begins to worry
about what would happen if she does bid for him just when she bids all her cash on basket
boy number eight, the boy before Bryce.
Later, during the basket boy bidding lunch, Bryce and Sherry sit at a table across from Juli
and basket boy number 8, Eddie Trulock. She's facing Bryce and he can't help but stare at Juli
the whole time. He sees she's having a good time with her date and gets jealous. He grabs her
to talk to her and attempts to kiss her in front of everyone. He chases her after she dodges his
kiss. Juli gets on her bike and cycles as fast as she can home. Garrett chases after him, and the
two break off their friendship after a confrontation.
Juli bikes home crying. Bryce continuously tries to talk to her, ringing the doorbell, calling
her house, coming to her bedroom window, despite her ignoring him. Finally, one day Juli
sees Bryce digging a hole in her front lawn which infuriates her. Her father said he gave him
permission and she watches Bryce continue to dig. After he digs the hole, he leaves. Juli is
confused but Bryce comes back carrying a baby Sycamore tree and places it in the hole. She
goes outside to help him. Knowing that he redeemed himself, Bryce covers Juli's hands with
his, they share smiles and then continue planting the sycamore tree.