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The Fits

2015

Action / Drama / Music

22
Rotten Tomatoes Critics - Certified Fresh96%
Rotten Tomatoes Audience - Spilled54%
IMDb Rating6.6104917

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Movie Reviews

Reviewed by nogodnomasters4 / 10

THEY LOOK LIKE ASTRONAUTS

Excuse me while I do my Tom Hanks in "Big" impersonation, raise my hand and say, "I don't get it."

Tone (Royalty Hightower) is an 11 year girl who works out in the school gym, does their smelly laundry, and fetches water. I never saw her go to class, but I am sure that is in there somewhere. She lives in the Cincinnati projects with her brother. She aspires to be on the school's dance team, some that looks like choreographed arm shaking and butt moving. I had a hard time determining who was dancing and who was having a "fit." Or yes, the girls are having fits, but not the boys. They suspect the water. That is pretty much it. Except for a few times, Tone can't dance a step, or keep up. A girl has a fit while the others crowd around with their cell phone cameras. I am sure there is some sort of "fitting in" symbolism or metaphor in the story, and apparently I missed the line that brought this to light...if there indeed was one. But I don't feel bad as it looks like everyone has missed it too. When the film was over, I was "It ends here? Something more during the credits?" Is this some secret sisterhood thing all of us males won't understand?

Guide: No swearing, sex, or nudity.

Reviewed by Hellmant7 / 10

I guess I'm just not the right audience member to quite understand it all.

'THE FITS': Three and a Half Stars (Out of Five)

Low-budget indie drama, that was a huge hit with critics last year. It's about an 11-year-old tomboy that's really struggling to fit into a girls' dance troupe, when the girls begin to suffer from an unexplained epidemic of seizure like fits. The film was co-written and directed by Anna Rose Holmer, in her feature film debut, and it stars newcomer Royalty Hightower. The movie was made on a budget of just $168,000 and it still managed to become one of the best reviewed films of last year (with critics). I enjoyed it, but obviously not as much as most of the critics have.

Toni (Hightower) is an 11-year-old girl, living in Cincinnati, who trains regularly at a Community Center boxing gym, with her brother Jermaine (Da'Sean Minor). One day she notices a girls' dance troupe practicing at the same gym, and she decides she might want to join them. After her brother talks her into it, Toni attends tryouts for the team. As she then attempts to fit in with the other girls, they randomly begin having unexplained violent fits, and it appears some sort of an epidemic is occurring!

The film starts out like a coming-of-age urban drama, and then it morphs into something else. There definitely appears to be a lot of symbolism going on in it, for real life problems and issues, but I'm not sure what the point of the whole movie is. Still, it is really well shot and acted. I'll admit it's definitely a well made movie, I guess I'm just not the right audience member to quite understand it all.

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Reviewed by axred8 / 10

Teen pregnancy, and the sociological fits that ensue.

Don't think too hard. This film is about wanting to fit in as an adolescent. And not fully understanding what peers older than you are going through, but wanting to be accepted regardless.

Consider the first fit, the first "episode," as real. The leader, Legs, was PREGNANT, from Donte. Maybe she overworked herself dancing? Complications? Dehydration? But she was definitely, absolutely, pregnant... and she then had a seizure, an episode, whatever it was. Chances are it was the only sincere "fit" in the film.

Imagine each subsequent fit to be each girl's attempt to follow suit. To be like their "leader." The girl they look up to each day while dancing, the girl they follow, for their own reasons.

Toni's dialogue is all you need to know: "Maia wanted it to happen to her." So it did. And, eventually... Toni wanted it too.

It's a surreal film. Obviously Toni isn't going to get pregnant, but her mind doesn't fully understand pregnancy yet, so she throws her own unique fit. Just as each of her friends threw their own. She creates a fantasy of being accepted. She floats, she flails, she falls, and she's caught by her friends. She fits.

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