Here on Earth (2000)

Here on EarthFalling for someone out of your social class is only acceptable if you're the poor one.If you're middle-class like the girl in this romantic movie, however, you get to choose.When affluent Kellie (Chris Klein) and the underprivileged Jasper (Josh Hartnett) crash their cars into Sam's (Leelee Sobieski) family's restaurant during a street race, both delinquents are ordered to repair the damages.Although she is seeing Jasper, during the reparations on her parents' place Sam starts dating Kellie for his intellectual prowess. Making matters more awkward is the fact that Sam is dying from bone cancer.With terrible performances across the board and a questionable motive at its heart, this maudlin teen love triangle drama from 2000 is more relevant today then it was 17 years ago. And still as cringe worthy.Smart move on her part though - latching onto the guy who can pay her hospital bills.Red Lightvidiotreviews.blogspot.ca

Where to start on this start-to-finish drivel? The plot line is banal. The script writer should be embarrassed to have anyone else hear the lines he or she wrote -- clunker after clunker. The acting performances are wooden, probably because they realized they were being put in front of a camera with such pablum to recite. The music is insulting. I grabbed this as i was on my spinning bike, and it's a bit inconvenient to change selections, so i stayed with it. I did retain some hope it would improve, but it stayed dismal start to finish. Perhaps consistency is the only positive thing I can say about this consistently miserable excuse of a movie. Anyone who rates it higher than three out of ten stars was either in it, helped produce it, and is a supportive friend or family member of those who dumped this lame effort on the world.

OK..you people need to settle down! This movie is not that bad. I saw it for the first time last night and fell in love with it! I do have to admit that I have never been a fan of LeeLee Sobieski but she grew on me in this movie. I do think Josh Hartnett is good looking, but c'mon..Chris Klein is the most gorgeous man I think I have ever seen!!! He made that movie better for me. C'mon girls..when he has no shirt on and goes to get water I know your mouth dropped. Yes, I know in the beginning he is a jerk, but in the end he realizes how he acted and learns to be a great guy. If he wouldn't have come at the end..then I would have been mad. I do think a couple of lines did not need to be said but all in all it was a great movie! I definitely recommend it!

Perhaps I am a softie or a romantic, but I can't agree with many who pan this film. It is far from the greatest of films, but it was touching in many ways. It is rather formulaic, but the formula works here for the most part. A rich upstart teenager comes into a small town and manages to get into a fight with a local and burn down the local diner. In a made-for-television kind of Solomonic wisdom, the judge sentences them to work together to rebuild the diner, Mabel's Table, the 'hot spot' of this whistle-stop town. Rich out-of-towner and local boy fight over the local girl, who has a tragic secret she is concealing.Leelee Sobieski, plays the lead as Samantha, the local girl track star whose knee gave out, jeopardising her chance to go to college. Chris Klein plays Kelley, the spoiled rich kid who is nonetheless intelligent and has a heart he begins to discover during his time in the small town. Josh Hartnett is Jasper, the local boy who wants nothing more than to keep things the way they are, including his relationship with Samantha. Most of these performances are serviceable without being stellar; they are typical romantic B-film fare, with many long, ponderous glances overlooking scenic views, and silly situations in which everyday life is shown.The action is slow, but then, it isn't meant to be a fast-paced film. Samantha is torn between the comfortable sameness of her life in the small town with Jasper and her family, and the attraction that rich 'bad boy' Kelley represents, particularly after she learns he does have a heart. Samantha overhears Kelley reciting the valedictory speech he was prevented from delivering because of his sentence to build the diner; Kelley in the end does get to the deliver the speech, under different circumstances.Jasper and Kelley fight (both verbally and physically) over the affections of Samantha, but when Samantha falls ill, they are able to put this aside for her sake. The diner is rebuilt, the town is restored to wholeness, but the situation with Jasper, Kelley and Samantha enters a new dimension, as fate has a different ending in store that none of them anticipated at the beginning of the summer.The other actors in the film are really background for the tale - few stand out, but one who does is Annette O'Toole, who plays Samantha's mother, a role very similar to the one she takes up on 'Smallville' as Clark Kent's mother.The story is gentle, sad, poignant - not terribly original, but very understandable in human terms. Love is unpredictable, and love often hurts. Love sometimes requires a sacrifice. Love can transform you. These are all themes that come across in the film, if not always terribly successfully.It is a film worth watching, though.