All I Want AKA Try Seventeen is a charming and quirky romantic comedy from 2002, despite its strong cast in the UK it bypassed the cinema and head straight to video/DVD, despite the fact that across the world the movie faired incredibly well at the box office, interestingly in Russia the movie ... Read review
Elijah Wood has one of his first post-Frodo leading roles in the mild-mannered comedyAll I ... more
Want(the original title of which wasTry Seventeenin its film festival showings). He's a 17-year-old college dropout who moves into a funky old apartment building...
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Elijah Wood (The Lord of the Rings Trilogy) stars as seventeen-year-old Jones Dillon, an ... more
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You're only 17 once. For Jones Dillon it's one time too many! Elijah Wood (The Lord of ... more
the Rings Trilogy) stars as seventeen-year-old Jones an aspiring writer who shelves plans for college and rents a room in a boarding house where the quirky tenants teach him a lot more than any classroom ever could. Between bouts of longing for his mother's (Elizabeth Perkins) love and his father's address he fantasizes about enhancing his romantic prospects. First he buys a bed from the oversexed Ma Mabley (Deborah Harry) who offers to help him break it in. Before long he becomes involved with struggling actress Lisa (Mandy Moore A Walk to Remember). However it's the enigmatic Jane (Franka Potente The Bourne Identity) a photographer and a few years older than he who really gets his pulse racing. When Jane has a car accident and her ex-boyfriend shows up on his motorcycle things get complicated. Jones enlists the aid of Brad (Aaron Pearl) his wacky downstairs neighbour and they concoct a scheme that could get him what he wants...and a lot more!
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list, it still wouldn't include what they want most. They want a miracle - they want their divorced parents back together!With lots of humor, heart and yuletide sparkle, All I Want For Christmas is all you could want in a family film treat. Ethan Randall and Thora Birch play siblings who come up with a hilarious plan to reunite their parents (Harley Jane Kozak and Jamey Sheridan). Movie legend Lauren Bacall plays the sympathetic grandmother who assists the kids. And Leslie Nielsen appears as Santa Claus. So what is the plan? Ho-ho-ho! Aren't you in for a surprise!
Production Year: 2003 - Comedy - Director: John Crowley - Original Language: English - Classification: 18 years and over - Starring: Colin Farrell, Shirley Henderson, Cillian Murphy, Colm Meaney, Rory Keenan, Laurence Kinlan
Comedy - Original Language: English - Classification: 12 years and over - Starring: Tessa Peake-Jones, Buster Merryfield, David Jason, Nicholas Lyndhurst
(+) Because of the new series the box set isn't complete, which means it will be cheaper! (-) It isnt the complete box set so you'll have to buy the new dvds seperatly or wait for the new set!
Advantages: Charming rom-com Disadvantages: Gets too serious after silly first half
All I Want AKA Try Seventeen is a charming and quirky romantic comedy from 2002, despite its strong cast in the UK it bypassed the cinema and head straight to video/DVD, despite the fact that across the world the movie faired incredibly well at the box office, interestingly in Russia the movie was a massive hit.
All I want messes its stories context by giving its hero Jones (Elijah Wood) two lives, one is real the second a fantasy ... ...movie on the losing side all the time; this is a guy you might not want to encounter in real life, the benefit of his friendship causing you more trouble than it's worth. Jones spends much of the movie as the downtrodden underdog, although it's obvious from the offset he is going to be on top.
It's the dysfunctional relationships that keep this movie interesting above all other things, as Jones chooses to leave the University dorms ... more
All I Want AKA Try Seventeen is a charming and quirky romantic comedy from 2002, despite its strong cast in the UK it bypassed the cinema and head straight to video/DVD, despite the fact that across the world the movie faired incredibly well at the box office, interestingly in Russia the movie was a massive hit.
All I want messes its stories context by giving its hero Jones (Elijah Wood) two lives, one is real the second a fantasy world that is lived out through his writing, this element allows you to second guess every important scene. While some are easy to spot others are a little more subtle, this is the strong defining force that keeps you watching this movie, and without this element there would be nothing to separate the movie from 100 other romantic comedies.
As odd new guy in town Elijah Wood as Jones delivers his most interesting performance in my opinion, starting the movie on the losing side all the time; this is a guy you might not want to encounter in real life, the benefit of his friendship causing you more trouble than it's worth. Jones spends much of the movie as the downtrodden underdog, although it's obvious from the offset he is going to be on top.
It's the dysfunctional relationships that keep this movie interesting above all other things, as Jones chooses to leave the University dorms behind he finds himself in a house conversion with a series of strange inhabitants. Jane (Franka Potente) is an odd photographer he tries to keep herself away from normal convention. Lisa (Mandy Moore) seems like the ideal female room-mate but trips off into tangents of the weird you might not expect. Brad (Aaron Pearl) is the all wise all knowing gay guy downstairs, with a penchant for firearms. While out of the house Ma Mabley (Deborah Harry) offers some quirky if not uniquely sexual tips Jones, and Blanche (Elizabeth Perkins) Jones' mother wrestles with the fact that she may or may not be the bad person in Jones' quirky life.
Jones finds himself with a dilemma of women, having spent 17 years innocent of women; two fight to some degree for him, although neither woman is particularly forthcoming with their interest for this unusual leading man.
The oddest fact about All I want is that it's one of those movies that asks more questions that it gives answers too, and at the same time being essentially about nothing other the transformation of a 17 year old boy. The biggest level of confusion for me is whether or not Jones attends university or not, it certainly starts there but features very little during the movie, Jones seems to have more free time than anybody ever in cinema history. Neither is a crucial fact explained, a question that is asked through the movies duration.
All I want is I guess also a little deceptive offering from the start a weird image that the movie fails to add up too. It offers Jones's as a weird kid who is lacking life's big experiences, and right at the start he has all these strange encounters, abuse by a Ska fan, an cigarette flicking thug, a savage macing, two rather mother obsessed thugs; and you kind of assume this is the way the stories passage will continue, what actually happens is the movie after 30 minutes becomes a far more serious and mature piece. This fact being excepted, I'd like to make it clear that All I want is still enjoyable viewing, though I'm not promising that you'll walk away believing its one of the best movies you ever saw. It does what it meant to do, tells a story, makes you smile, passes the time of day, and leaves you with a rather predictable glow in the pit of your stomach.
It's quite interesting to see Elijah as we all knew him, having spent the last two years looking rather a lot like Catweasle, and in desperate need of a bath. You kind of forget about the actor in an army of other actors, and All I want is a reminder of how good an actor he is, but also asks why he has spent his time since the movie Bobby doing voice over's and little else.
All I Want is available on DVD for about £5 the DVD has the original US trailer as a special feature.
Advantages: Depth of characters, challenging at times. Disadvantages: No grounding in reality, some parts too silly.
...him to university. Defying all sense of reality, no one steals it when he leaves it alone in an open space. After sitting through one lecture, he drops out, and rents an apartment for $12,000, which he pays cash. The actress living in the next room to him takes a liking to him and pushes herself into his life. His life, on the other hand, is a simple one, he writes letters to his unknown father and, well, that's about all he does. Then he falls in ... ...is an underlying black humour all of the way through the film that cynics will certainly get a kick out of.
I'm happy to see that Elijah Wood is taking roles that are still challenging. There was the risk that following Lord Of The Rings, and having his choice of projects, he would go for the easy Hollywood fodder, but I applaud him for taking on this kind of project and the challenges it offered. Franka Potente seems slightly uncomfortable in her ...
eddie7sf 11.11.2004
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Release details
DVD Region
DVD
Studio(s)
SONY PICTURES HOME ENTERTAINMENT; CINRAM LOGISTICS, UNIVERSAL PICTURES UK; CINRAM LOGISTICS (SWINDON)
Release date
29/12/2003
No of Discs
1
Catalogue No
CDR 36092
Barcode
5035822609273
Languages
Main Language
English
Technical information
Aspect Ratio
1.85 Wide Screen
Sound
Dolby Digital 5.1
Dubbing Sound
Dolby Digital 5.1 English
DVD Description
Seventeen year-old Jones (Elijah Wood) has decided to avoid college in favour of renting an apartment, and attempting to learn from life while trying to become a writer. As he tries to gain his mother's (Elizabeth Perkins) approval and figure out his father's whereabouts, he becomes involved with both Lisa (Mandy Moore), a struggling actress, and Jane (Franka Potente), an older photographer. When Jane is involved in a car accident, and an ex-boyfriend comes to take care of her, Jones realises how strong his feelings are for her. He then enlists his strange neighbour, Brad (Aaron Pearl), to help win Jane's love. Look out for a cameo by Deborah Harry as Ma Mabley, an over-sexed seller of beds."
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