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The Tracey Fragments

Something's Missing...

2007 · 1h 17m · R Drama
Directed by Bruce McDonald

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Overview

Tracey Berkowitz, 15, a self-described normal girl, loses her 9-year old brother, Sonny. In flashbacks and fragments, we meet her overbearing parents and the sweet, clueless Sonny. We watch Tracey navigate high school, friendless, picked on and teased. She develops a thing for Billy Zero, a new student, imagining he's her boyfriend. We see the day she loses Sonny and we watch her try to find him.

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42%
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Rotten

To criticize a film called The Tracey Fragments for being too fragmented may sound a bit on-the-nose, but this experimental drama from Canadian director Bruce McDonald is interesting for a while and then goes to pieces.

Moira MacDonald, Seattle Times
Rotten

I hated this movie. I really did.

Richard Roeper, Ebert & Roeper
Rotten

All this proves is that watching a poorly executed scene from 19 perspectives is worse than watching it once in an unbroken frame.

David Fear, Time Out New York
Rotten

This audacious puzzlement is worth seeing, I guess, for some startling and innovative visual designs. But it doesn't amount to anything more substantial than a technical tour de force.

Rex Reed, New York Observer
Fresh

Viewed as the sum of its sad incidents, The Tracey Fragments seems like the kind of adolescent melodrama that has become a staple of young-adult literature.

A.O. Scott, New York Times

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