- Actors: Sara Gilbert, Drew Barrymore, Tom Skerritt, Cheryl Ladd, Alan Stock
- Directors: Katt Shea
- Language English
- Classification: 18
- Studio: 4 Front
- VHS Release Date: 5 Sep 1994
- Average Customer Review: 4.3 out of 5 stars See all reviews (11 customer reviews)
- ASIN: B00004R6K9
- Amazon Bestsellers Rank: 13,564 in Video (See Top 100 in Video)
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13 of 14 people found the following review helpful
Format:DVD
I must be missing a trick about this film because every review I read seems to sum it up as a credible and interesting movie, and yet for me it swung between sheer boredom and tired trotted out formulaic film tricks in equal amounts.
The story idea is intriguing but not that original; a beautiful young girl from the wrong side of the tracks befriends the geeky insecure rich girl from her school class. She then worms her way into the family's affections in differing ways. She sympathises and comforts the mother, a neurotic who believes she is on death's door. She seduces the father, a reforming alcoholic, even steals the affections of the family dog. Finally she generally turns nasty on her so called friend and sets her up for many a bad fall.
Where it just didn't work for me is that all the tricks used to show the development of the story line just seem so hackneyed and generally tired. They are nothing new and possess no subtlety whatsoever is they way they are presented. They are rammed down the audience's throat with a sense that if they had been done with any delicacy at all the film maker's were scared that their "idiot" audience wouldn't understand.
The performances aren't shockingly bad but they certainly aren't fantastic. Drew Barrymore is certainly good looking but can she pull off the necessary malice for this role? For me she didn't come anywhere close. Sara Gilbert is more believable as the misunderstood outsider that Barrymore befriends but even here there is something missing.
For me this is a movie you watch when you're a misunderstood teenager yourself, you watch it feeling convinced it's full of hidden messages that only you can understand and thinking that the film is speaking to you on a level that no-one else can. It isn't, it's just a worn out mechanical acting by numbers flick which soon looses it's shine.
1 of 1 people found the following review helpful
Format:DVD
a young girl dreams of a family so she decides to get one by stealing one off her best friend. Ivy (Drew Barrymore) will do anything but when she gets it she wants more.
She will use murder , seduction and sex to get it.
A very good film 1992 and made 2 sequels out of it , still a avery good film
only extra a trailer but cheap price BUY IT
4 of 5 people found the following review helpful
Format:VHS Tape
I expected this to be another shallow film,a meaningless excuse to have endless sex scenes but it turned out to be a very deep, psychologically thriller. It's the tale of outsider, Cooper, who befriends the new wild girl in town, who thrives on the love and attention of others. She becomes infatuated with Cooper's father and will let nothing get in her way.Seeing Drew play the secuctive teen is like magic. This is not a film to be missed!
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Drew should have done more like this...
...rather than the bland rom-coms that she did after this film. Poison Ivy has a TV film feel about it and having just watched it recently for the first time in several years I... Read more
Published 18 months ago by Peter J. Chambers
Drew Is A Beautiful Poison
Drew Barrymore is stunning here as a femme fatale seducing her best friends father,she manipulates the entire family and is just superb in a rare serious role,i love this film.
Published on 16 Oct 2009 by Douglas george hall
a decent film
Drew Barrymore is fantasic in this film but the rest of the actors are poor and the storyline is skectchy but she does the best with what she's given and that's what makes the film... Read more
Published on 17 Mar 2009 by Mr. J. P. Mchugh
Just in response...
Firstly, I do think this is a worthwhile watch, it has depth and chills and its one of the few films that still makes my hairs stand on end. Read more
Published on 10 Jan 2008 by crimson earth
Poison Ivy
This is a fantastic film! I very much enjoyed it, and I must say, it is one of the best films I have watched in a long time. It is brilliant, and full of meaning. Read more
Published on 5 Dec 2007 by Mrs. L. M. Ruskin
Good movie actress Drew Barrymore.
I don't know why it is 18, there's a little bit of swearing in it, but i wouldn't say anymore than 12 or 15. I taped it, and it is so good, not rude at all. Read more
Published on 30 Dec 2003 by "brianpointon2"
Brilliant
Okay, Ill admit that its hard for me to be unbiased about this film as it stars one of my heroines in Sara Gilbert. Read more
Published on 30 Dec 2003 by Jean Bradbury
Lucky Farther, thats all I can say.
This film actually stars a young Drew Barrymoore who befriends her so called clossest friend and goes after her farther, who lets he stay under strict instructions that he gets the... Read more
Published on 15 May 2000 by rob@symson.com
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