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When Devon, a 10-year-old girl, forges a friendship with Trent, a 21-year-old outsider who mows the neighborhood lawns, things suddenly get very complicated and private.When Devon, a 10-year-old girl, forges a friendship with Trent, a 21-year-old outsider who mows the neighborhood lawns, things suddenly get very complicated and private.When Devon, a 10-year-old girl, forges a friendship with Trent, a 21-year-old outsider who mows the neighborhood lawns, things suddenly get very complicated and private.
- Awards
- 7 wins & 4 nominations
John Bacon
- Neighbor at Barbecue
- (uncredited)
Khris Colgate
- Neighbor at Barbecue
- (uncredited)
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- TriviaRandy Peterson, the stuntman who doubled for Sam Rockwell in the dive off the bridge early in the film, performed the stunt a total of six times - five times completely naked, and once wearing briefs (in case an alternative shot would be needed for a US TV version). The bridge (in Louisville, Kentucky, USA) was 30 feet high and the water around nine feet deep.
- GoofsWhen Devon pours a glass of water for Trent it is less than half full. In the next scene outside it is seen to be more than half full even after splashing it about.
- Alternate versionsFor showing on US television, all of the profanity was dubbed over with less extreme words, the sex scene between Trent and Pam (at around 20 minutes in) used an alternate take where they are wearing clothes as opposed to them being nude in the original, and the scene where Trent dives off the bridge completely naked (at around 10 minutes in) used an alternate take with him (actually a stunt man) wearing underwear. The alternate takes were filmed with the intention of this being shown on TV in the US. The version streaming on several internet services (Amazon, Tubi, etc.) is this censored TV version.
- ConnectionsReferenced in Jersey Girl (2004)
- SoundtracksShake And Shiver
Performed by Jubilee
Courtesy of Silvertone Records, Ltd.
Written by Ross Baxter, Chris Holditch, Garron Firth and Lee Severin (as Baxter/Frith/Holdich/Severin
Used by permission of Zomba Music Publishers Ltd.
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From the picture on the cover (see the picture on the main details page!) and reading the back of the video jacket for this movie, I expected this to be a film about suburban wives sleeping with the hired help. Nope. It's a movie about a slightly sick [in the mental and physical sense] young girl [about 10 or 11 years old?] who befriends one of the guys hired to mow the lawns in her gated community. While the guy is reluctant at first, the friendship that forms between them is actually fun to watch. That's what makes the movie interesting. But while the end has to do with the class system talked about on the video jacket, this is a story about the girl and her "lawn dog" friend, with the parents and their repressive lifestyle being almost incidental to the story until the end. This is an interesting movie to watch, but I wish the people who write the blurbs on the video jackets would actually WATCH the movies once in a while.
- paintbrush_2003
- Mar 7, 2004
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Box office
- Budget
- $8,000,000 (estimated)
- Gross US & Canada
- $106,404
- Opening weekend US & Canada
- $22,491
- May 17, 1998
- Gross worldwide
- $106,404
- Runtime1 hour 41 minutes
- Sound mix
- Aspect ratio
- 1.85 : 1
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