Unboxing a period in life that was so well documented. Funny, Sad and moving. I really related to this film, though it's a world away from my life, I think its a very singular film...thank goodness for camera obsessives

This documentary makes the cardinal sin of wanting to be universally relevant and thus underscoring how non-typical the life of a child actor is. Who can relate to hanging out with pornstars, dating famous rappers, and losing your virginity to Charlie Sheen? OK maybe the last thing is typical, but the rest feels so out there that it alienated me. There are vanity projects, and then there’s this. It all feels like Soleil wants to remind us that she was once famous and knew Leonardo Dicaprio.

This tries way too hard to be important and messaged. The footage and the story simply don't have it. I think that the "make it a struggle" angle is played way too hard here. We're talking about someone who has had a very charmed life above the standard of a vast majority of people. That person then wants to still look like an underdog or an outsider without any substance other than a few microaggressions. I don't think their adolescent "struggles" are greater than that of an average person with far less fame or money. I only gave it a few stars for the nostalgia factor and the critic pulse seems to have a similar sentiment.

This was clearly a very personal story for Soleil Moon Frye. I was expecting more a general 90s nostalgia documentary. Instead, the movie is a deep dive behind the curtain for a group of young people in Hollywood growing up in the 90s. It was raw and poignant at times. Thoughtful overall. Decent film.

Pretty well done …..

There was nothing extraordinary about her life or the lives of the other people in this "film" that warranted a documentary about it. Basically, it's about a kid actor being friends with other kid actors having celebrity and coming of age on screen. The whole trials and tribulations theme throughtout the documentary was trite and off putting. Typical Hollywood lifestyle b.s. put on display for the masses. Get over yourselves.

This was clearly a very personal story for Soleil Moon Frye. I was expecting more a general 90s nostalgia documentary. Instead, the movie is a deep dive behind the curtain for a group of young people in Hollywood growing up in the 90s. It was raw and poignant at times. Thoughtful overall. Decent film.

It brought me back to my childhood for good and bad. It was very cathartic for me. I actually told my older son to watch it and he could get a glimpse of what life was like back then as a teenager. Of course, life for people that are not celebrities is a bit different from ordinary folks like me, but a lot of it is the same just with different actors.

This was clearly a very personal story for Soleil Moon Frye. I was expecting more a general 90s nostalgia documentary. Instead, the movie is a deep dive behind the curtain for a group of young people in Hollywood growing up in the 90s. It was raw and poignant at times. Thoughtful overall. Decent film.

This is a documentary about entitled rich people complaining about how unperfected things are. If only they made a documentary about actual victims that don't have millions and global admiration.

I thought this was very thought provoking film that expressed a lot of courage in its raw form. Growing up in the 80s and 90s was an interesting time and I feel that Soleil Moon Frye captures that time well in her documentary. Soleil is unapologetic and should be in her story telling. This documentary allows the audience to peer into the life of a former child star who documented the hardest part of her life; the transition from child to adult. I am influenced by the pop culture of the time era that I grew up as most do I believe, and this film captures the feeling of that time. I will recommend and watch this again. Watch this film.

We all love punky Brewster, but this film of tapes and accounts will make us understand soleil moon Frye even more. 4.3

Soleil's dad seems like a self righteous windbag and probably the root of her personality flaws. When I was a teenager in the 90's, I might have cared about being friends with some of these celebrities. However, the more that I learn about their personalities as adults via social media and in films like this, I am glad that I was far removed from their scene. I have to thank Soleil for giving me more reason to tune out Hollywood and enjoy my life as a commoner.

I'm a total sucker for these coming of age docs, that in this case focuses on intimate snapshots of the many diverse social circles Soleil has moved in and out of as she was approaching adulthood. 8.5/10

Seriously? Bunch of kids that really didn't know hardship and struggles because they lived in a fairy land. Acting like they had reasons to be so depressed. Thinking they're profound because someone stuck them on 온라인카지노추천. Give me a break.

I wrote a very long and detailed assessment of this film and--as sometimes mysteriously happens here--my review literally vanished. The short version is Punky Brewster--real name Soleil--has shot and curated some interesting footage of her peers and she in the late '80s through early '00s, but because she's a narcissist and tremendously self-involved, altho she strives to be introspective and caring, she comes off as having been--and as continuing to be--a voyeur/tourist in life who skates along the surface of other people's actual lived experiences, often people with risky and "exciting," tho' borderline lifestyles and fragile psyches, many of whom end up breaking while she flits onto the next crowd unscathed. It's astonishing that it's only 71 minutes because it feels at least 2 hours. And 2/3 of the way through, which is only approx 45 minutes--it starts to sag, and never recovers. She seems to mean well, and she aspires to be deep and evolving but she seems to have the same degree of insight into herself (tho endless) and life and humanity as she did at 15.

This documentary took me back in time I never wanted it to end! The smiles and cries were incredible the amazing group of young stars all together growing up as friends just amazing!!! ❤❤❤

Very disjointed. The story of teen fame, drug use, sexual experimentation, child exploitation, suicide and trying to find yourself while under the scrutiny of the public eye is salient but the way it's presented is difficult to follow. Soleil edits together 20 years worth of video clips in a random and arbitrary way. The narration doesn't help and if you weren't familiar with Punky Brewster, you'd assume this was a jumbled conglomeration of attention starved teens centered around a narcissist. Although there were some poignant moments, the lack focus kept us from sympathizing with Soleil. I really wish they could have laid out a clear narrative to follow instead of a cache of vignettes and messages from the answering machine.

Like some critics noted: this is less a documentary and more of a home movie montage that provides very limited entry or narrative for those who are not in the footage itself. I appreciated a female story being shared and enjoyed seeing some of my childhood 온라인카지노추천 mainstays in it unguarded and enjoying life in a world gone by, but there wasn't much else to grip on to. It seems to have been cathartic to create, however, and for that reason I'm pleased it exists.

Such a unique look into the iconic stars of my childhood. Well done Moon Frye