The Lost Girls

I would have bet my life the main "actress" was autistic with a moderste speech impediment. At first, I felt like she was so brave facing her "limitations" on screen, then I realized she just sucked as an actor. She is horrid, truly. I have seen better acting at elementary school plays, and I AM NOT KIDDING.

I see that this movie was trying to use the Peter Pan & Wendy story to try and tell a deeper one of motherhood and family, but it still fails epically.

The acting, for one, is abysmal. Whoever wrote the script must have written in in a different language and then sent it through google translate. The worst part of this movie is the main actress Livia de Paolis who plays Wendy. Her accent is SO distracting! Is it American, British? The way she says every other line is different and makes it seems so fake.

There are several "touching" moments that are supposed to happen throughout but they never really set you up to care that much about the characters themselves. They have NO foundation. AT ALL. The plot is a fail.

If you watch this hoping to see a retelling of Peter Pan, you won't. I think they're trying to talk about mental illness which confuses me to begin with. The acting is not great. The only reason I gave it two stars is because of Vanessa Redgrave and Joely Richardson. Their acting was the only decent parts of the film. Adult Wendy was abysmal. Not worth watching. Don't waste your time.

Livia de Paolis is so cringely bad in this. She plays Wendy II and her acting is horrid. The actress who plays teenage Wendy and even younger Wendy were charming and so great. When the movie shifts into adult Wendy with that actress the movie completely falls off. She acts as if she is reading lines offstage in an elementary school production. It's like she is trying to give autistic vibes but neither of the previous girls did that so it's just terrible acting on her part. I could barely watch her on screen. I so wanted to like this film. It has a message regarding mental health but it gets lost behind what was stated above.

It is incredible that some people are proud of participating in a movie like this.

Next time you get a great idea and want to make another movie, gather your friends and employees, ask them what they think or suggest and do the opposite, because they will be too afraid to tell you the truth, that it is probably trash.