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The Truth About Jane - DVD

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3 star:		(1)
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I think this is a good first coming-out story. Who cares if it's a bit 'after school special'. I still think it's a good take on the subject. I think it's great tool for parents and teens to adress the issue of coming out. Because as tollerant as the world seems, many families aren't open and accepting of the reality of thier child/sister/brother/cousin/nephew/neice/whatever being gay. No, it's not a classic film or a Classic in Lesbian entertainment. It's not even the best Lesbian love story ever, though it does do a fair treament to the emotional termoil of first love, first 'time', and first heartbreak. But it mixes all this within the struggle of a family and fairly treats the issue of coming out with the family. The first female relationship Jane has is little more than a subplot and I thought that made this film different in a good way. Usually it's the family that's reduced to a background plot while one rehashes the same ol plots seen in Hetero and Homosexual movies based on the 'romance' element.

Great coming out story, decent movie, gets my recomendation for anyone looking for films dealing with this subject.

a cute coming out movie for everyone in the family...a well done job!!

Sometimes, just rare little times, it happens, that a movie really touches you. This definitly is one.
It dealt with 15 year teenage girl Jane, fell deeply in love for the first time. With another girl, taylor, the new girl in her class, she also had sex with for the first time.
Giving her pretty hard times realizing the fact, that she's gay. As well as her parents, "friends", teachers... And, that's nothing about it.
Although these stories are as different and unique, as humans theirselves, many things, that Jane has to struggle thru, came familiar to me and I wished, more people would really consider about.
It's not a teaching movie. Trust me. It has great beauty, dramatic and very intense moments. And funny ones too. My favorite: After her coming out Janes father took her for soccer game, she was never interested in her whole life, to show understanding and get to know his "new" lesbian daughter better. After she is refusing, he said: "I suppose even golf is out of discussion?!" ('Damn! Not A thing good about it!')
The characters are well played, especially Jane's, I like most. And the actress is very cute. Just the way she's holding her had, when she looks in love. And that voice! Melting.
So do what you want. But if you do not watch, you'll never know what you miss out.

This played like an after school special. It was contrived and predictable and the screenwriting was so awful I think who ever wrote this needs to take english 101 or talk to people and see how they really communicate. The subject could have been done so much better especially in light of the great acting talent in the film....unfortunetly material was lacking and the director must have been at lunch...perhaps worth seeing for the coming out aspects and to see Stockard Channing and the actress playing the school teacher...see it for that, but as a movie it only gets 1 star

The subject of the movie is good, as is the message of tolerance but the delivery is painstakingly awful. The movie is trite and poorly acted. This just seems like a bad after school special which simply drags on for an hour and a half. Stockard Channing I enjoy highly in other films like "Six Degrees of Separation" but in this film she just seems to be making the best of the script which is a daunting task. There are better films that bring forth the same message and better capture the essence of the "out casting". I would recommend "Show Me Love" a Swedish film that does a far better job of telling a not too dissimilar story.

This is a movie very close to my own life. I saw this when I first came out of the closet, and it was a great help to me when I was going through the same things.

I picked this movie up, because of the director/writer Lee Rose. I have always enjoyed her work and that of Stockard Channing. I was amazed at how this movie touched me. Clearly, Ms. Rose is writing from experience, the coming out issues raised in the movie are both believably written and acted. I only wish that the message of acceptance gets out and our rich diverse culture of loving people can be empowered. Love your work in telling women's stories, Ms. Rose!

Basically, this was an afterschool special, only better.

The Truth About Jane is a heavy-handed coming-out story without any trace of subtlety. The movie starts with a clumsy love affair between Jane and a girl at high school, progresses through her parents going psycho, and finally turns into an ad for PFLAG. Throw in a few glitzy commercials for PFLAG ("PFLAG! It will make your life better!") and it would have been a great spoof of, well, itself.

The acting was acceptable, but the script in general was pretty poor. Every scene was completely formulaic, but somehow, the part of the formula where you learn about peoples' feelings seems to have been left out, leaving us with cardboard cutouts yelling at each other.

But all is not lost! This movie had a few good moments. When Jane beats up her snotty little brother, yeah! That was quality sibling pounding!

Three stars, for the sibling smackdown. This would be a good movie to sit annoying people in front of for "educational" purposes, since it won't confuse them with subtlety or too much of that incomprehensible high-brow plotifying and stuff.

If you want entertainment, watch Show Me Love (F**king Amal to the rest of the world) instead.

this movie really represents both what a child goes through when coming out to their parents and and the parents go through them selves. this is a movie that everyone needs to sit and watch and see how what happens when a someone realizes that they are are. it helped me understand what some of the people in my life have gone through with their families. this movie digs deeper than most. it goes past all of the sex and gets down to emotions.

Indeed, this movie expressed its point in a very clean and tasteful way. I liked how it wasn't raunchy like a lot of other movies that were giving the same message. It is a good drama, and I recomend it to anyone who might be looking for a decent drama.