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.
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.
Director and cast
- Bruce McDonald Director
- Elliot Page as Tracey Berkowitz
- Ari Cohen as Mr. Berkowitz
- Erin McMurtry as Mrs. Berkowitz
- Maxwell McCabe-Lokos as Lance (as Max McCabe - Lokos)
- Zie Souwand as Sonny Berkowitz
- Stephen Amell as Detective
- Kate Todd as That Knockout Bitch Debbie Dodge
- Ryan Cooley as David Goldberg
- Daniel Fathers as Elegant Pimp Daddy
- Curtis Fletcher Cast
Critics on Rotten Tomatoes
Top critics, in their words
I hated this movie. I really did.
All this proves is that watching a poorly executed scene from 19 perspectives is worse than watching it once in an unbroken frame.
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.
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.
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