![]() Add to all of this Cat’s hypochondriac little brother, Peter (Myles Jeffrey), her alienation from her mother Lily (Alberta Watson) and one-time confidante Delilah, Cat’s shame at being Jewish, Delilah’s alienation because she’s Jewish, William’s eventual murder of Delilah, and a grating faux-British accent from Mischa Barton (as rich-girl, Grace), and you’ve got one hell of a mess on your hands.Įven with so much going on, Tart remains dull, never developing any one of its numerous storylines for any length of time. He’s got a girlfriend, too, who never really has her say about his cheating with Cat.Īlso, Delilah’s mother is having an affair with Eloise’s (Lacey Chabert) father, while Cat’s own father has almost nothing to do with her seemingly only in the picture to give her money and forget her birthday. This all seems simple enough, at first, until we learn that William is actually from the “wrong side of the tracks,” supporting a drug habit by stealing from the homes of his friends and fencing the goods to creepy Kenny (a bizarre appearance from Kids in the Hall member Scott Thompson), who also pimps him out to older men. She gains little from her new friends, not knowing just who she is supposed to be - poor and stuck-up or rich and nice? Is it possible to be either? Or both? Oh, help! Cat soon learns, however, that life Park Avenue-style is not all it’s cracked up to be. Now she finds herself welcome at ritzy parties and is finally getting noticed by the dreamy-but-dangerous William (Brad Renfro). When Delilah’s behaviour gets her expelled, Cat ends up hanging with the snobby crowd her friend warned her about. Delilah’s into sex and drugs and has just the right kind of smart mouth to keep her feeling tougher than the stuck up snobs also attending the school. ![]() The film presents itself as a modern day, gender-switched Great Expectations, but fails to create anything approximating the tension of the Dickens tale or grant its characters any sense of charm or whimsy.Ĭat (Swain) is a 16-year-old student at an upper-class New York City private school, whose only friend is the rambunctious Delilah (Bijou Phillips). Tart is another in a long line of unoriginal attempts to explore one girl’s desire to fit in. Given its title and this titillating image, Tart looks like your average teen sex yarn. I’m drawing this conclusion based on the straight-to-video film’s exploitative box art a cheeky Dominique Swain wears a preppy school uniform, the back of which is blowing in the wind revealing her white panties. T art‘s distributors might well be aware that the film has little going for it.
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