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I Believe in Unicorns
Directed by
Leah Meyerhoff
Not Rated
2014
80m
Drama
6.1
84%
55%
6.4
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Unicorns tells the story of an awkward teenage girl who escapes to a fantasy world when her first romantic relationship turns increasingly violent.
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Cast of I Believe in Unicorns
Natalia Dyer
Davina
Peter Vack
Sterling
Julia Garner
Cassidy
Amy Seimetz
Clara
Toni Meyerhoff
Toni
Johnny Sequoyah
Girl on scooter
James Cotner
Reverend
Delano Montgomery
Skater
Sam O'Gotti
Friend
Jane Stillwater
Biker
Leah Meyerhoff
Director / Writer
Heather Rae
Producer
Allison Anders
Executive Producer
Katherine Rusch
Production Design
Jarin Blaschke
Director Of Photography
Emily Batson
Costume Design
Michael Taylor
Editor
Rebecca Laks
Editor
Sasha Gordon
Original Music Composer
Sunday Boling
Casting
I Believe in Unicorns Ratings & Reviews
Bitch Media
Kerensa Cadenas
During my teenage years, I would probably have loved this film-I constantly imagined I was in a Weetzie Bat-esque Francesca Lia Block headspace. But as an adult viewer, the fantasy fell flat-at the end of the film I craved more of Davina's reality.
Boulder Weekly
Michael J. Casey
Not just a voice, a resounding roar.
Bitch Flicks
Ren Jender
[Leah] Meyerhoff explained how difficult casting Davina was and how the filmmaking team went through hundreds of actresses before they found Dyer. I wish this writer-director had put that same effort into writing a coherent script for her talented actors.
Los Angeles Times
Martin Tsai
In spite of its fanciful tendencies, the film nails the growing pains that result from love and loss.
The Playlist
Katie Walsh
It rings true, resonates as real even in its fantasies, because it is rooted in a place of authenticity, in subjectivity, in emotion and in storytelling.
RogerEbert.com
Brian Tallerico
If it falls victim to a bit too many college film student clichs, it's easy to forgive Meyerhoff due to the great performance she draws from her talented young star and what this film means for her bright future.
Examiner.com
Travis Hopson
Even when escaping into a glistening imaginary world of unicorns and dragons, one step remains firmly planted in an all-too-familiar yet strikingly real story of first love.
New York Times
Jeannette Catsoulis
Like its heroine, "I Believe in Unicorns" is faltering and undeveloped, but with a wiry core that belies its apparent uncertainty.
AV Club
Katie Rife
On paper this all sounds terribly clich, and it's a testament to Meyerhoff's talent as a director that she manages to give the standard coming-of-age material emotional resonance ...
Village Voice
Diana Clarke
Vack is sexy and charming, but Dyer carries the film, the camera holding her expressive face in close-up, wavering between pain and wonder.
New York Daily News
Katherine Pushkar
It's a teen-girl fantasy, Penthouse Forum for the Sassy set - a 1990s nostalgia trip complete with smoking, pay phones and developing pictures from film.
Film Journal International
Simi Horwitz
'I Believe in Unicorns' has its shortcomings. But it also lingers long after the final credits have rolled and bodes well for [writer-director Leah] Meyerhoff's future.
Variety
Joe Leydon
First-time feature filmmaker Leah Meyerhoff spins a familiar but affecting coming-of-age tale in I Believe in Unicorns, a sensitively observed and arrestingly impressionistic drama that feels at once deeply personal and easily accessible.
Village Voice
Alan Scherstuhl
The performances are strong, the imaginary visions are suggestive and fleeting, and the film as a whole is swoony, tender, skittish, a little scary - in short, this is what young love feels like.
The Dissolve
Noel Murray
It's unusually attuned to how it feels for a teenager to have her first intense, quasi-mature relationship, and how it feels for her to use that love affair as an escape.
Thompson on Hollywood
Ryan Lattanzio
Meyerhoff's scrapbook style will irritate some, and enrapture others. But in a world of increasingly stentorian female filmmakers, she's one to watch.
Commercial Appeal (Memphis, TN)
John Beifuss
Leah Meyerhoff's earnest debut is more notable for the integrity of its female point of view and the consistency of its raw yet dreamy visual scheme -- which includes stop-motion fantasy interludes -- than for its familiar coming-of-age scenario.
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