Juliette Lewis' acting at the parade

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MisterBabadook — 9 years ago(October 29, 2016 09:02 PM)

Lol wth was that? When her dad asks her when the parade goes by saying "now why didn't you try out for that? you can dance" she then responds with "I wanted to once but i dunno" just the way she delivered that line was so freaking dumb sounding, she sounded like a stoner.
Her performance throughout the whole movie is awful, i mean was her character supposed to be retarded? Or was that Juliette Lewis acting horribly?
Thats what i love about these high school girls, i get older they stay the same age.

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quint88 — 9 years ago(November 20, 2016 10:07 AM)

Just Juliette Lewis, unfortunately

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mec_os — 9 years ago(December 21, 2016 11:31 PM)

i'm just re-watching it just now and i always thought she was supposed to be mentally handicapped. my partner swears she's just supposed to be naive, but i'm going with retarded

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Premmie — 5 years ago(June 12, 2020 08:02 PM)

It's part of her sweets and innocent act, hana

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pglynn — 4 years ago(June 10, 2021 02:03 PM)

If she was intellectually disabled, it would have been mentioned in the film.