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Jellyfish is a familiar but compassionately drawn portrait of hardscrabble lives, centred by a terrific performance by Liv Hill.
Jellyfish
United Kingdom · 2019
1h 38m
Director James Gardner
Starring Liv Hill, Sinead Matthews, Cyril Nri, Angus Barnett
Genre Drama
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Sarah Taylor’s hardscrabble life has turned her into a teenage terror. When her drama teacher helps her channel her ferocious wit into comedy, her life’s delicate balance is set on a collision course with her newfound passion.
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The A.V. Club by Ignatiy Vishnevetsky
Jellyfish takes the kitchen-sink approach, piling on external inequities and indignities on its protagonist.
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The Hollywood Reporter by Keith Uhlich
Sarah’s circumstances are so ridiculously dire that there’s little left to do but laugh at them.
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There’s real feeling coursing through Jellyfish, even if its insights aren’t particularly trenchant.
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