![]() ![]() ![]() The limited point of view turns the picture dull long before we find out the obvious answer to that. Girlish giggles, and “Girls are allowed to have our minds in the gutter.” Besides, he’s in The Friend Zone. I guess I’ll be doing you every afternoon after school.” “But he (her father) DIDN’T take my computer, just my phone. She gets grounded and loses custody of her phone. Madison is a little too fond of lollipops, is insecure about her looks, her charisma, her sex appeal. He’d rather try out for “Bye Bye Birdie” or “Romeo and Juliet.” Teel confesses he has “no ambition in the jock arts,” not up for the sports “auditions” his parents push him into. Her retiring, nightcap drinking widowed Dad is micro-managing her life, leading to her complaints about “wife” duties in her life. Madison is so instantly trusting that she confides in Teel about her scheme to get Cole “jealous” by shamelessly making out with another guy right in front of him. Teel is so dorky and fey he’s never heard of “ping pong” (something teens play in parties in the movies). Two guys named Toronto concocted this in the “Unfriended/Friend Request/Searching” mode - split screen, real time online conversations, every camera angle achievable by a teen holding up her phone to show a party, his room, their share-everything lives.īut these kids - one, seemingly an open book, the other a sealed one - have secrets. The garish lipstick and heavy makeup give her away. Madison ( Daniela Bobadilla) is little too eager to fill him in on her plans to snag the cute boy in her school she obsesses over - Cole ( Enspirit). Teel ( Daniel Amerman) shows up late for school and classes, “so everybody will think I’m in a rush and not realize I don’t have anybody to talk to.” We learn his mother won’t let him get his driver’s license and that he isn’t even on Facebook. The computer and their face chats are his lifeline. He’s too introverted to even be on social media. She plays with her hair and practically lives her life on social media, inviting him (via her phone) to a party where she makes a bit of a scene. ![]() He’s a loner, introverted, nerdy and friendless and stuck back in Michigan. She is beautiful, bubbly and outgoing, a school principal’s daughter out in California. Her “Do I know you?” response to his “friend” query earns an entirely-too-quick “Can I call you?” from him. It’s been a decade or more since they were acquainted. “Teel,” who goes by “Teel-Riffic” online, tracks down “Madison, “Mad-I-Sing” across country and across the years. It’s a not-quite-charming cheat, a two-hander about former childhood friends who reconnect as teens, start sharing and helping, coaching and advising each other via a Facetime clone called “Face2Face.” The leap to thriller will give you whiplash. From light, right on the cusp of sweet, to just dark and grim and unable to pull off that transition. “Face 2 Face” is one of the most striking miscalculations in movie tone in recent memory. Boy, talk about a light, dullish teen dramedy that turns icky on a dime. ![]()
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