Candy Jar

2018

Action / Comedy / Drama / Romance

27
Rotten Tomatoes Critics - Rotten 65% · 6 reviews
Rotten Tomatoes Audience - Upright 65% · 100 ratings
IMDb Rating 5.8/10 10 5807 5.8K

high school rivalry interracial romance teenage romance debate team

Plot summary

Dueling high school debate champs who are at odds on just about everything forge ahead with ambitious plans to get into the colleges of their dreams.

Director

Ben Shelton Photo
Ben Shelton

Top cast

Danielle Lyn Photo
Danielle Lyn as Edison Debater #2
Anna Rappaport Photo
Anna Rappaport as State Debater #1
Helen Hunt Photo
Helen Hunt as Kathy
Sami Gayle Photo
Sami Gayle as Lona Skinner
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784.03 MB
1280*682
English 2.0
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23.976 fps
1 hr 32 min
Seeds 2
1.48 GB
1920*1024
English 2.0
NR
Subtitles us  
23.976 fps
1 hr 32 min
Seeds 4

Movie Reviews

Reviewed by anniefairfield 5 / 10

Fun premise but clunky execution

For the teen romance crowd, this movie has a good premise with two warring teens in the debate club who inevitably fall for each other. But it's actually so frenetic and fast-paced that half the dialogue you will miss as it whirls from one joke to the next. There's a rhythm to comedy and you have to let moments build and sit. This movie has its own unique rhythm to it, and it's fun in a lot of ways, but I just don't think it worked as well as it could have.
Reviewed by richard-fieldhouse 7 / 10

Sweet high-school romcom set in the weird world of competitive debating

Lona and Bennett have been competing since kindergarten, maybe egged by their mothers who seem to have some issues that need to be resolved. And now college is beckoning them - Havard - or Yale - or not. Partly to look good on their CVs they are in the school debate club. But here everything gets very strange as competitive debating seems to have degenerated into a kind of bizarre speed talking contest in which points of evidence are made so fast that scarcely anyone understands.Lona and Bennett are in some ways hugely similar and in others diametrically opposed so boy - girl, black - white, but both with single mothers, both geeks, bookworms, loners, and both very much attached to Kathy, a school counselor whose room is filled with the candy jars that give the film its title.It's an unusual idea but it makes the film fresh and different. For me, the nonsensical debating process was a bit of a distraction, but maybe the very fact that we don't understand what they're struggling to achieve, let alone the actual arguments they make, maybe that helps us focus on them and how they matter more.
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