The movie begins on a promising note but fades into a nothing every passing minute. It is so directionless that you begin to wonder as to if the scriptwriter the director were either sleepy or drunk when they wrote and made the movie. Total piece of trash and such a waste of my Saturday evening. Wish I rather saw some trash on Netflix that would probably be more entertaining than this. Save yourself the trouble!!

Are two lead actresses (Evans, Kurimsky) have very limited acting backgrounds, but did well, perhaps because their roles as older teens not happy w/pretty much everything except each other (well, most of the time) were natural fits. An indicator of the turmoil & trouble they go through w/parents, boyfriends as they try to escape town is dialogue in which four letter obscenties & similar words comprise 40% of the screen time; add in others (mostly males) it jumps to about 60%. Setting was low income; low education, gritty in your face. Ending not clear, but seems that leaving doesn't remove the source of the problems.

I love Larry Clark movies and the whole genre of 'real' teen movies, which this movie fits into. But Firecrackers is boring, the characters aren't interesting, and there's nothing disturbing about it. It's just bleh. It would look real if the actresses didn't look like actresses, but that's the best thing I can say for it.