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The Tracey Fragments | 
| Director: Bruce Mcdonald
Actors: Ellen Page, Julian Richings, Erin Mcmurtry, Ari Cohen, Maxwell Mccabe-lokos
Studio: THINKFILM
Category: DVD
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Rating:  10 reviews
Sales Rank: 11309
Format: Color, Dolby, Dvd-video, Ntsc, Widescreen
Language: English (Original Language)
Rating: R (Restricted)
Region: 1
Aspect Ratio: 1.78:1
Number Of Discs: 1
Running Time: 77 Minutes
Shipping Weight (lbs): 1
Dimensions (in): 7.1 x 5.4 x 0.6
MPN: TF4943DVD
UPC: 014381494327
EAN: 0014381494327
ASIN: B0017VG5XM
Theatrical Release Date: 2007
Release Date: July 8, 2008
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Product Description
"My name is Tracey Berkowitz... 15... just a normal girl who hates herself."Oscar -nominated* Ellen Page (Juno) delivers an extraordinary performance as a feisty independent-minded teenager with a unique view of the world. From cutting-edge director Bruce McDonald (Hard Core Logo Roadkill) The Tracey Fragments tells the story of an outsider who uses fantasy to help her deal with a secret crush loneliness and frustration. When her 7-year-old brother wanders away while under her care she examines her life as she is propelled on a late-night journey through the city in a desperate attempt to find him.System Requirements:Running Time: 77 minutesFormat: DVD MOVIE Genre: DRAMA/COMING OF AGE UPC: 014381494327 Manufacturer No: TF4943DVD
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Teen angst is amped up by a nuanced performance by a pre-Juno Ellen Page in The Tracey Fragments. "Look, the other day, something happened. I came to certain realizations," says Tracey Berkowitz, played with deadpan heartbreak by Page, huddled on a late-night bus near the beginning of the film. "I can't tell you what or you'll end up like me, on this bus, looking for someone." The scene signals a rocky ride, and the film--a portrait of an outcast Canadian teen struggling with bullies, clueless parents, unrequited love, and her place in the world--is wrenching and challenging. Director Bruce McDonald has taken the "fragments" of the title literally, and so the film is presented in several simultaneous screen shots at a time; rarely in its duration is there simply one scene to watch, as though all the different facets of Tracey are playing out at once. Which, of course, they are. Tracey is hassled at school, dismissed as an "it" for being flat-chested, and treated as invisible by her parents and even her therapist. Only when something dire happens may have been her responsibility does the rest of the world turn its judgmental focus on her. Tracey begins a quest to leave her old life behind and try to redeem herself--find and honor who she really is--in the process. And the film somewhat brutally takes the reader along for the ride. "How do you know what's real and not real when the whole world is inside your head?" Tracey muses on one of the buses she takes into the night. It's as perfect, and painful, a depiction of adolescence as any film in recent memory. --A.T. Hurley
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| Customer Reviews: Read 5 more reviews...
 Excellent film, fantastic performance, wonderful editing September 22, 2008
Pen Name? (Toledo, OH United States)
This is a brilliant film, visually captivating and with a magnificent performance from Ellen Page. Perhaps most interesting is how the mood of the film, helped tremendously by the lighting and color choices for the scenes, perfectly captures the feeling of being a teenager caught up in the intertwined mess of school bullying and family dysfunction, thrust into their own head to fantasize about a way out. Maybe it's too stark and bleak for some viewers. To express the trauma that Tracey is dealing with and reacting to, and how her mind is processing all of it and struggling to assert a self in the midst of it... to present this on screen with such raw feeling is a beautiful, albeit brutal, achievement. I feel very strongly that the artistic choices in how the film is presented, it's broken sense of chronology, the collage and fragmented visuals, the narrative slipping through different forms of memory and blurring between 'fact' and 'fiction', all of it brings the spectator into the psyche of our protagonist, to break down the third person perspective close to experience the story as it unfolds in the mind of Tracey. It probably succeeds as this more than any film I have seen. It is fantastically well done and very stunning.
 What a WASTE of Ellen Page's talent and presence! September 2, 2008
Patrick Beart (Portland, OR USA)
1 out of 4 found this review helpful
This movie was almost impossible to watch. The already mentioned "multiple split screens", which sometimes numbered around a DOZEN(!!!) make watching this teen angst drama like watching it in numerous rectangular pieces of broken mirror, each with a slightly different time code. ... Ugh!
Ellen Page was great in Juno, and she's at least as good here as the material will allow her to be. However, unless you are on LSD when you watch this movie, the format is likely to REALLY annoy and distract from Ellen's presence, the (deeply fragmented!) story line, and at least some of the scenes.
Art film on Crack, ... filmed in multiple cracks.
Don't waste your time on this one!
Ellen, what were you thinking? August 9, 2008
Jason G. Salerno (Philadelphia, PA)
0 out of 2 found this review helpful
Way too confusing a film. Stories of teen angst should not be so deep. Not one single frame shot in the whole film. Too much to follow. Excellent performance by Page as always but it was the wrong choice to do this film.
Ellen Page at her finest August 1, 2008
Juno MacGuff (New York, NY)
2 out of 2 found this review helpful
This is one of Ellen Page's best performances. If you loved her in any movie, then you should definitely see this one! The truth she brings to the struggle of her character, along with the innovative techniques used to tell the story, make for a performance that leaves you speechless. This movie is like nothing you have seen before.
 'A' For Effort July 21, 2008
Susan Taylor (Virginia)
Bruce McDonald definitely gets an 'A' for effort with this one. Though the split screens used throughout The Tracey Fragments can be disorienting, and appear a bit amateur at times, they achieve the desired effect of making the audience feel as though they are viewing the world through the eyes of a discernibly unbalanced 15 year old girl.
After trying and only partially succeeding to appreciate this as an art film, I fell in love with it as a tragic comedy. This film wasn't really intended to be a comedy, but with so many insane scenes and so much completely ridiculous dialogue, I could not help but be entertained by the sheer absurdity of the main character's life. Though Ellen Page did a fantastic job with some intense and... odd scenes, my personal favorite is Max McCabe-Lokos as Lance (from Toronto). Lance treads a fine line between being an unbalanced, somewhat violent, potentially predatory low-life and a generally nice guy. His character alone is absurd enough to make The Tracey Fragments worth watching.
Long story short, don't be afraid of the split screens. I guarantee that if you're not into the whole aesthetic, at the very least you will have a laugh with this film.
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