Turn Me On, Dammit! (2011)

TURN ME ON, DAMMIT!  (2011)  ¢ ¢ ¢
    D: Jannicke Systad Jacobsen
    Helene Bergsholm, Malin Bjorhovde, Beate Stofring,
    Matias Myren, Henriette Steenstrup, Julia Schacht
Hormones, adolescent cruelty, bad choices and bad luck all crash in on a 15-year-old girl named Alma in this coming-of-age movie from Norway. Jacobsen and her young cast do a nice job of getting at how teenagers think and act, but it might be easier to sympathize with the heroine's plight if she wasn't, like, the cutest 15-year-old girl in Norway. Her best friend, a would-be activist who divides her time between chain-smoking cigarettes and writing letters to death-row inmates in Texas, is a much more interesting character, and would be more credible as a social outcast. But she's not the cutest girl in Norway. Or maybe I'm missing the point.