Gardens of the Night

Nothing to add but wallowing

Writer-director Damian Harris (son of Richard, brother of Jared and director of "The Rachel Papers") struggled for almost 20 years to bring "Gardens of the Night" to the screen. A painstakingly researched account of child abduction and exploitation and the hardscrabble life of teenagers on the streets, the film exudes an anguished sincerity.
Harris has put together a genuinely oddball cast -- John Malkovich, Peta Wilson, Jeremy Sisto, Harold Perrineau and Michelle Rodriguez all pop up, some for basically one line -- but the film's emotional core comes from actresses Ryan Simpkins as a young abductee and Gillian Jacobs (also seen recently as a kindly stripper in "Choke") as the teenage version of the same character. [...]

di Mark Olsen, articolo completo (1433 caratteri spazi inclusi) su The Los Angeles Times 5 dicembre 2008