Rent Powder (1995)

great little movie - Powder review by matt

Feel-good movie with characters you really care about. It is heartwarming without being corny. Little known film yet well worth checking out.

Powder - Powder review by GS

Excellent movie and the cast thereof. From the start you are lead from the strange mistrust of the main character purely because he is different.

The main characters play their roles to a professional level and convey a heartfelt sympathy even they they are unsure of what is transpiring with the lead character role.

I have watched it many times and could do so again.

Intriguing with huge logic gaps - Powder review by AER

Sean Patrick Flanery is superb as a genius/albino/lightning conductor called Powder who gets taken into a state school for troublesome teens when his grandparents die. Having never really encountered ohter humans it's a bit of a rude awakening. Lots of eyebrows and questions are raised as this keeps Powder'mysteries locked away, but still has lots of big plotholes. There are a few great set-pieces like a scene in the dining hall, and another that centres on a dying deer. Bad acting on the sidelines scuppers this film more than you'd think and they can't make their careless characters seem more sympathetic. Jeff Goldblum is simply awful, Mary Steenburgen unmemorable, only Lance Henriksen won me as the town's sherriff. In turn creepy and sentimental, it's all over the place tonally. I saw it back in the 90s and quite liked it, but I am obviously a bi tless accepting now, and more critical. I'm sad that it's not the cool film I remembered.