Hounddog

I had heard this movie had a very graphic rape scene so I was sure that I wanted to watch it but my fondness for Dakota Fanning as an actress won out. Now I'm not sure why so many people are... Full review

This little girl's story is my story. It will no doubt be painful to relive events onscreen, but I hope it is healing as well. Thank you for making the movie and having the courage to take a stand against shame.... Full review

This film is one of the better ones that I've seen. Dakota Fanning's acting warrants a huge award - HUGE. This film is very dark so don't expect it to be a "chick flick" or kid movie. I've seen Slumdog, Revolutionary... Full review

this movie had very great acting in it she was amazing people should know this happens in real life this movie hounddog should of been in movie in more theaters... Full review

Why Is this Movie So Rated R for a sexual assualt involving an youn girl and brief sexualit PG-13 Movie Would Be Bette r But This Is SUPEr Sad... Full review

If you like Dakota fanning movies like i do, then this movie might be fore the average movie-goer. In this not so peaceful film, Dakota fanning plays a young girl living in the south sometime in the 1950s, and she is... Full review

Dakota fanning is a really good actress but i dont think it was right for her to be in this movie.It would have been alot better with an older character. I think everyone should leave dokata fanning alone though and her... Full review

It has a story that in some cases is true in the life of many people, i like movies when they share a story that somehow relates to the problems and strogles people had on theyr lifes.... Full review

i havent been able to see this movie cuz its not playing in my area and i guess its not coming to dvd? some people need to understand though that this movie is rated R and also that it is a... Full review

this movie is ungodly it is wrong to show a movie like this one i will not see this one and will boycout it to........ Full review

Hounddog" is a flawed film....Hanford does greatly succeed in making us care for him....One of the biggest problems with "Hounddog" is....In those selected numbers of scenes where Lewellan is allowed to be happy, Fanning shows great free spirited charisma, making us care for her.... ... Full Review

Hounddog might be a mess..... ... Full Review

Hounddog might be a mess..... ... Full Review

But the noxious sexualizing of a child permeates the movie. In an unintentionally comic moment, lighting strikes a tractor and turns Lewellen's previously lethal daddy into a childlike invalid. ... Full Review

She's a highly trained actress, not the emotive, broodingly method wonder "Hounddog" needs to best examine the psychological damage being inflicted on Lewellen. Hounddog" instead feels disengaged, losing perspective at nearly the very moment it begins. ... Full Review

"Hounddog" director Deborah Kampmeier will visit MIT tomorrow (Saturday) to discuss her controversial flick at a free screening at 6 p.m. at the Stata Center. ... Full Article

The Female Eye Film Festival has returned to Toronto with a series of screenings across the city, including several domestic and international premieres. It began on Wednesday with Deborah Kampmeier's controversial feature Hounddog, starring Dakota Fanning, Robin Wright Penn and... ... Full Article

HOUNDED: When word first leaked to the media in early 2007 about the child-rape scene in Dakota Fanning 's movie "Hounddog," public reaction was explosive. ... Full Article

Just as furor over the portrait of the developmentally disabled in "Tropic Thunder" may have distracted attention from the film's potentially incendiary racial subplot, protests over "Towelhead" for being offensive to Arab-Americans diverts attention from its appalling premise: the sexual... ... Full Article

It's easy to understand why Hounddog is having such a hard time finding an audience. The Deborah Kampmeier film was a hot button when it debuted at the 2007 Sundance Film Festival 18 months ago due to a (very) controversial... ... Full Article

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