Lost and Delirious
Lost and Delirious
R | 21 January 2001 (USA)
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After starting at an upmarket boarding school, a teenage girl forms close friendships with her two older roommates. However, when she discovers that her new friends are lovers she finds herself caught in a complicated situation.

Reviews
Perry Kate Very very predictable, including the post credit scene !!!
AniInterview Sorry, this movie sucks
Claire Dunne One of the worst ways to make a cult movie is to set out to make a cult movie.
Roy Hart If you're interested in the topic at hand, you should just watch it and judge yourself because the reviews have gone very biased by people that didn't even watch it and just hate (or love) the creator. I liked it, it was well written, narrated, and directed and it was about a topic that interests me.
kimberly - I really loved this movie, it was beautiful and very sad. I've never cried as much as I did while watching this movie, before. Which makes this one of my favorite movies. This movie describes how tragic it sometimes can be when other people aren't accepting of same sex love. Shows how other peoples judge mental opinions can force someone to break up with someone they truly love in fear of rejection. I think the acting was great, especially Piper Perabo's performance. The story was very realistic and made me feel the pain that Paulie felt when Tori broke up with her. I find this movie perfect and give it 10 out of 10. It's definitely a must see.
stamici987 Piper Perabo gives an extraordinary performance as she becomes Pauli, using every expressive nuance imaginable to express the full range of Paulie's emotion and spirit. I'm not aware of any better effort by any actor in many MANY years – she's stunning! As Paulie, Piper Perabo puts in one of the most emotionally riveting performances of the past decade. As the lead, she perfectly displays an emotional range that is incredible given her youth. It is amazing to see how she makes each scene and emotion credible, from the highest of joy to the depths of despair and depression. To those who find it a depressing movie – that is true, it's a tragedy no less than Shakespeare's Romeo & Juliet. It is clear throughout the movie that Paulie and Tori are deeply in love; Tori demonstrates her love right through to the end when she is shaken by the realization that her true love will be no more. I have watched this movie several times, and cry every time. I'm drawn to it because of the exceptional performance by Piper. It is so sad that the movie was released to so few theaters; I believe Piper would have become a Hollywood 'A list' actor had more people seen her amazing performance in L & D!Based on what I have read about Piper, I thought she was a very bright woman in addition to being an exceptional actor. She brings her intelligence, intensity, emotional range and strong physical presence to her characters - - perhaps best exemplified by her role as 'Paulie' in 'Lost and Delirious'. It is too bad that L & D had such a limited theater release because many people did not get to see a truly remarkable performance; I can't help but think that if it had been shown in more theaters that Pipe would be among Hollywood's 'A list' actors. For anyone who thinks she is just another pretty Hollywood face, take a look at this quote from her grad school adviser (she graduated with academic awards): "She is a brilliant young woman, who graduated from Honors Tutorial College (HTC), studying physics, poetry and Latin in her senior year, . . . "What has impressed me the most about "Covert Affairs" is that Piper's intelligence, enthusiasm, energy, and quirky personality come through," he said. . . She didn't learn self-initiative from us, but we sure didn't hold her back"Her coursework was certainly not an easy load, yet she excelled in spite of traveling, sometimes to New York, for auditions.You can check out the complete post at Ohio University - http://www.ohio.edu/compass/stories/ 10-11/12/piper-perabo-golden-globes-2010.cfm
pmscully64 Fourteen year old Mary 'Mouse' Bedford (Mischa Barton) has been in a downward emotional spiral since the death of her mother three years earlier. Her father quickly remarries, which she resents, and her stepmother whisks her off to a posh, girls boarding school; something her real mother would never have done.Upon arrival, Mary is warmly greeted by Miss Vaughn (Jackie Burroughs) who introduces her to senior student Victoria 'Tori' Moller (Jessica Pare), one of Mary's new roommates, who helps her settle in. Only minutes later Mary abruptly encounters the rebellious Pauline 'Paulie' Oster (Piper Perabo), another senior who will also be her roommate.Later, in their dorm, the three girls spend their first night together and quickly bond while orally composing letters to their mothers. Mary deeply misses her mother (sometimes even forgetting what she looked like) and strongly resents her stepmother for sending her away. Tori hates her mother for trying to mold her into the 'model' daughter. Her rich parents are very strict, traditional, and religious, yet she also respects, admires, and needs them. Paulie is not close to her adopted parents. Her letter is her first contact with her 'blood' mother whom the adoption agency has tracked down.Later that night, Mary wakes up unable to sleep and discovers that Paulie and Tori are not in their beds. She looks out an open window and sees them kissing on a roof. Initially naive, she thinks perhaps they are 'practicing' for boys. Very soon however, Mary realizes that Paulie and Tori are lovers when she wakes up one morning and sees them naked together in bed. This doesn't seem to phase the three girls very much, and they form an even deeper friendship which goes beyond sexuality.Paulie and Tori truly love each other, but their love is soon put to the test when a younger student (Tori's sister) bursts into their dorm one morning and catches Paulie and Tori in bed together naked. With the affair revealed, Tori panics and ends the relationship fearing that her parents, family, and friends will frown upon and disown her. Paulie is devastated and has a nervous breakdown. In the meantime, Tori convinces her sister that she's not 'like that' and starts dating Jake, a boy from a nearby school who likes her, in order to establish a 'heterosexual' reputation.It doesn't help matters much either when Paulie receives a letter from the adoption agency informing her that her biological mother has no wish to meet her in person. Paulie then goes to extreme and desperate measures to try and win Tori back, which unfortunately leads to tragedy."Lost and Delirious" has very little or almost nothing to do with lesbians or being gay. It is a very passionate, emotional, and finally tragic coming of age story of first love and love lost. It shows us the extremes to which one will potentially go in order to try and hold on to that love or win it back when it is threatened or cannot be. It also shows us how fear can cause us to give up true love when the nature and circumstances of that love may be deemed perverted or scandalous by society.
Charlotte Nordin Sundberg This movie is so incredibly powerful and important to lesbians and others all over the world. It shows that two girls can love each other the same way as straight couples. It has an amazing, moving, soundtrack that fits like the hand in the glove to the moving tale. I would recommend this movie to everyone, it's impossible not to be moved by it. A lot of lesbians may rate it less than 10 because of the ending. But I think the ending was very good and the reason you want to watch it over and over again... you want it to end differently so badly but you can't change the story. And this could happen in reality. Tough love, love of your life... first love... forbidden love... This movie is LOVE.