Ripe Movie Review

Ripe is a seedy-looking film about two screwed-up sisters. Monica (Dawson's Creek) Keena and Daisy Eagan are Violet and Rosie, who exit from the family car seconds before their parents are burned to death following an accident. The opening flashbacks suggest that the “14"-year-old girls may have been abused as children, so they take off for Kentucky without a backwards glance. They wind up at an army base where, instead of being turned over to children's protective services, they become quasi-mascots on base instead. And they stay with a grungy handyman named Pete (Gordon Currie), with whom Violet becomes sexually involved. The story makes less and less sense as Violet and Daisy go through the motions of weirdness, each in her own way. The only possible reasons for renting this turkey are (a) if you want to see Keena after she was cast as Oksana Baiul on CBS and before she evolved into bad girl Abby on the WB and (b) if you really must see why Saturday Night Fever's Karen Lynn Gorney is in this flick as randy “Janet Wyman.” All others, beware.

1997 (R) 93m/C Monica Keena, Daisy Eagan, Gordon Currie, Ron Brice, Karen Gorney, Vincent Laresca; D: Mo Ogrodnik; W: Mo Ogrodnik; C: Wolfgang Held; M: Anton Sanko. VHS