The reviewer for AllMovie wrote that " Tart is a straightforward depiction of self-possessed, spoiled teens, is the best argument yet for getting an after-school job in the late high school years". She dropped out of the lead role in favor of X-Men. Anna Paquin was originally cast as Cat Storm. Though set in New York, the film was shot in New York City, New York and Toronto, Ontario, Canada in 1999. The film ends with Cat and her mother resolving their own familial conflict and her mother apologizing to her in Central Park. After school that afternoon, the paparazzi and reporters interview the students with questions about Delilah, and they all deem her "reckless" and have little to say of her. The following morning, after searching for Delilah, Cat discovers that Delilah's body has been found and William arrested. Delilah screams at him and threatens to press charges, and, in a panic, he beats her to death. He pushes her, causing her to hit her head on a rock. William chases after Delilah and confronts her in the woods on her way back to the beach, and the two get into an argument. While there, she stumbles upon William receiving oral sex from a male drug dealer. Delilah walks to a nearby gay bar operated by Kenny, where she tries to find a ride back to the city for her and Cat. There, she confronts Delilah, and the two argue about Cat abandoning her, but make up. Hearing about a party hosted by Delilah on the beach in The Hamptons, Cat goes to stay the night with Eloise at her house, using it as an opportunity to attend the party. After some of Cat's antisemitic friends find out her father is Jewish, she is ostracized, and only accepted by the prim Eloise Logan, who befriends her. William and Cat pursue a brief relationship, which he ends, leaving Cat distraught. Cat surrounds herself with some of the school's most popular students, befriending Grace Bailey, an English exchange student, and attending holiday parties held by Peg which are often frequented by Kenny, an ephebophile who supplies cocaine to the teenagers and tries to have sex with the young men.Īmidst struggles at home between her divorced parents, Cat becomes attracted to William Sellers, a delinquent who comes from an abusive household, and who also is significantly less wealthy than his peers. Cat begins to fall in with the popular crowd at her prep school, abandoning her rebellious longtime friend, Delilah Milford, who is expelled from the school. Plot Ĭat Storm is a teenager attending an elite preparatory school in 1980s Manhattan. It follows a young woman at a preparatory school in 1980s New York City and her ingratiation with a group of elite peers. In 2013, Swain starred in Gregory Hatanaka's drama film Blue Dream as Gena Townsend.Tart is a 2001 American coming of age drama film written and directed by Christina Wayne and starring Dominique Swain, Brad Renfro, and Bijou Phillips. She starred in the direct-to-video science fiction film Nazis at the Center of the Earth in 2012. In 2011, Swain was featured in David Ren's action thriller The Girl from the Naked Eye. She starred in Monte Hellman's romance thriller Road to Nowhere in 2010. Swain also starred in the horror/slasher film Fall Down Dead as the main character, Christie Wallace. That same year, she was featured in the movie Noble Things, about the country star Jimmy Wayne Collins, which also starred country musician Lee Ann Womack. In 2009, Swain appeared in Starz Inside: Sex and the Cinema which discussed the depiction of sex in film. She starred in the 1998 drama film Girl, in which she plays a high-schooler who is determined to lose her virginity. She later then played the rebellious teen Jamie Archer in John Woo's Face/Off (1997). She was 15 during filming and her performance was praised by critics. In 1995, at the age of 14, she was chosen out of 2,500 girls to play the title role in Adrian Lyne's controversial 1997 screen adaptation of Lolita, as Dolores "Lolita" Haze. Swain started her career in Hollywood as a stunt double she appeared as the double for Macaulay Culkin's younger sister Quinn in Joseph Ruben's The Good Son (1993). She is best known for her roles as the title character in the 1997 film adaptation of Vladimir Nabokov's novel Lolita, and as Jamie Archer in the film Face/Off. Dominique Ariane Swain (born August 12, 1980) is an American actress.
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