This comes up especially with exploitation films — movies which by their nature are provocative and cross lines in an attempt to sell more tickets. Foster has mostly disowned the film due to a short and gratuitous nude scene that she felt pushed the exploitation too far. Foster, in her early teens at the time, was very obviously doubled by her much older sister which makes the nudity even more jarring and inconsistent within the otherwise grounded story. All these come together to give Foster a role that stretches her acting chops even further than Taxi Driver did in the same year. In the film Jodie Foster plays Rynn Jacobs, a young teen in small town Maine who finds herself beset upon by nosy neighbours seeking to upend her bohemian lifestyle as they become curious about her absent poet father. Both Martin Sheen and Jodie Foster had yet to have their career-defining roles, but both get a chance to flex their acting abilities tremendously in the film. Rynn is almost a polar opposite to Iris, the ingenue role in Taxi Driver which earned Foster her first Oscar nomination. Rynn is cold, determined and absolutely capable of taking care of herself. It takes other characters, even those on her side, a while to even begin to break her walls down. In Rynn, we see a surprising amount of the techniques and pathos Jodie Foster would use in her adult roles — aspects that are mostly absent from her films until the 80s.
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In interviews, Jodie Foster usually refrains from saying which of her films are her least favorites, but she has let it slip that this movie isn't particularly one she is fond of, explaining, "When people are there to simply do a job they don't have any passion for, those are nearly always bad films. One of five films that actress Jodie Foster starred in during the year , to date, still Foster's most prolific year. A significant role for Mort Shuman, who played Miglioriti. He is best known as half of the celebrated songwriting team with Doc Pomus. Alexis Smith bemoaned the fact that she "had only two scenes. They used to call these 'small roles,' now they say 'cameos. Hallet slaps Rynn across her face. It's OK.
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It was a co-production of Canada and France and written by Laird Koenig , based on his novel of the same title. The plot focuses on year-old Rynn Jacobs Foster , a child whose absent poet father and secretive behaviours prod the suspicions of her conservative small-town Maine neighbours. The adaptation, originally intended as a play, was filmed in Quebec on a small budget. The production later became the subject of controversy over reports that Foster had conflicts with producers over the filming and inclusion of a nude scene, but a year-old body double was used. After a screening at the Cannes Film Festival , a court challenge was launched regarding distribution, and a general release followed in Initially released to mixed reviews, with some critics finding the murder mystery plot weak but Foster's performance more meritorious, the film won two Saturn Awards , including Best Horror Film. It subsequently attained cult status , with later critics positively reviewing the screenplay.
The movie opens with Rynn lighting candles on her birthday cake, alone in her living room. The doorbell rings. She lights a cigarette, blows smoke around the room, and lets in Frank Hallet Martin Sheen , out trick-or-treating with his two little kids on Halloween. Martin Sheen has never been oilier. Foster is a preternaturally good kid actor. She plays Rynn as a brilliant loner, home-schooled by her father, taught to trust no one. Her mother took off when she was three. She was raised in London. She storms in whenever she pleases, demanding to see him. Hallet is played as evil incarnate, imperious, pretentious, and mean.
