Ashley (2013)

Ashley: Directed by Dean Matthew Ronalds. With Holly Taylor, Michael Madsen, Jennifer Taylor, Olivia Rose Keegan. A frustrated suburban teenager, who fails to connect with her often unpleasant mother, resorts to self-harm as a coping mechanism.

“I canu0026#39;t understand the motivation behind some of the negative reviews I see here. Yes, the film is as entertaining as day-old coffee, but that is the point! Ashley is a 17-year old girl, without real friends and her mother is angry u0026amp; broken-hearted herself, and nobody understands her pain or why she is so withdrawn. If you canu0026#39;t understand that, then your adolescence must have been pretty peachy indeed. Most of us losers felt lost and alone and didnu0026#39;t have the verbal skills to even explain why we felt so hopeless. Iu0026#39;m not going to ruin the movie by spoiling the ending except to say that she has strength in there somewhere and it finally appears. This film was haunting and I highly recommend it.”