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Restless—movie review

  • By Leonard Maltin
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  • September 16, 2011 4:37 AM
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Restless is likeliest to appeal to young people who relate to the heightened emotions of its leading characters, a teenage girl and boy who share a budding relationship—and a fascination with death. That they are played by the wonderful Mia Wasikowska, looking like a young Mia Farrow or Jean Seberg, and promising newcomer Henry Hopper (Dennis Hopper’s son, in his film debut) helps a great deal.

I found most of Justin Lew’s screenplay to be an exercise in forced whimsy. We meet the young protagonists at a series of—