Here on Earth (2000)

People are voting emotionally.

Great Film overall

This is a tender, generous movie that likes its characters and presents them as real people, full of flaws and strengths.

Great story, amazing characters, superb action, enthralling cinematography. Yes, this is something I am glad I spent money on.

Here on Earth (2000): Dir: Mark Piznarski / Cast: Chris Klein, Leelee Sobieski, Josh Hartnett, Michael Rooker, Bruce Greenwood: Depressing film where girls left the theatre in tears. I cried too after realizing the money I spent to view the shame. Title regards a reality check although there is no proof that the filmmakers clued in. Mable's Diner goes up in flames after a drag race between two high school graduates who are competing for the affections of a female. Charges are dropped pending that the boys help rebuild Mable's Diner. Frankly I think they should have been forced to write a better screenplay. It is clear that Chris Klein and Leelee Sobieski will fall in love and that ex-boyfriend Josh Hartnett will stop acting like an ass. Dull and depressing with director Mark Piznarski doing the best he can. Klein is given an embarrassing scene where he gets drunk and talks to cows. Sobieski has medical problems and refuses remedies. Hartnett is tiresome and repetitious, and that accepting forced grin he gives at the end is enough to make you puke. Michael Rooker appears as one of the stone faced stern authorities making sure Mable's Diner lives again. Bruce Greenwood plays the standard Sheriff and that's about it. Nothing we haven't seen before. Theme of taking responsibility for your actions bypassed for a film so lame one suspects that the screenwriter wasn't here on earth. Score: 2 / 10

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...but it only took one to write Here On Earth (2000).PLEASE DON'T WATCH THIS MOVIE.This movie is horrible. North Korea could use this film to torture dissidents. The acting is rigid, the dialogue predictable, the plot unoriginal but still contrived... I wouldn't watch this again if someone paid me. I'd rather slam my skull against a brick wall than watch this again. I'd rather drown in a vat of bleach than watch this again. I'd rather watch Gigli or North or anything starring Chris Farley.This movie should have been categorized "Horror". The only thing romantic about this film is the credits. I've seen more chemistry in a jug of water. Drama is calling out dialogue before the actors do, just to see how often I can get it right, except that drama requires conflict and I just kept getting the dialogue right.I saw a trailer for this movie and was very intrigued. While none of the actors were "stars" at the time it was made, they're all very talented and I had high hopes this would be something unique and entertain that I would tell my friends to watch.I'd get thrown in front of a train if I recommended this to any friends. If you can't find the DVD, check a furniture store. I think they're using them as shims on the short leg of a table. Hospitals are using it to teach amputees to run.This isn't even something that makes a fun drinking game. It's just a BAD movie. The acting is especially awful when one considers how talented many of the players are. Writer Michael Seitzman also wrote North Country, a movie I'll now be avoiding like the plague.I think "The Plague" was a working title for Here On Earth.This is director Mark Piznarski's only feature film, his credits including television shows, TV movies, and the sixth director for a documentary about drying paint. I wonder how he can sleep at night.No animals were harmed in the making of this film, but many reputations were.2 out of 10: It's. Just. Bad. Please don't watch this.

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.