She's Out of Control 1989

Michael Wilmington, Los Angeles Times: The script is another one of those high-concept specials that sound like they were midwifed by an agent. Read more

Carrie Rickey, Philadelphia Inquirer: Essentially a feature-length sitcom, She's Out of Control specializes not in psychology but in snappy patter. Read more

Caryn James, New York Times: It is an extended version of familiar, bland sitcom situations. Read more

Roger Ebert, Chicago Sun-Times: She's Out of Control is simultaneously so bizarre and so banal that it's a first: the first movie fabricated entirely from sitcom cliches and plastic lifestyles, without reference to any known plane of reality. Read more

Wally Hammond, Time Out: Dragoti's dire, dishonest, seldom humorous social comedy has all the nauseating hallmarks of a big-budget sitcom. Read more

Variety Staff, Variety: Despite some funny scenes, the sitcomish treatment of a father's anxiety over his teenage daughter's budding sexuality is mostly shallow and uneven. Read more

Rita Kempley, Washington Post: It's an irksome, one-dimensional sitcom with smut. Read more