My comment is 6 years late, but I had to add that I do hope you realize that she beat 2500 other candidates for the role of Dolores in Lolita.
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I love the way she screams and cries.

I've always thought she was an
okay
actress, but I certainly know what the OP is referring to. She has this wacky body language whenever her characters break down/get emotional; i.e., weird faces, flailing her arms and legs about. It IS bizarre. She did the same thing in Lolita a couple of times during some scenes with Jeremy Irons. She looks like she's sort of tall and lanky, b5b4ut still the flailing. I also recall seeing her do it in that movie Pumpkin with Christina Ricci, and apparently in a bunch of other films according to the other posters here. I haven't seen a whole lot of her work, just the two aforementioned movies. I also saw that bizarre movie Tart on television in the early 2000s and the whole thing was just weird. This girl has had a strange career.

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I just watched Noble Things and was shocked at how bad her acting was. So I came on here to see if there was any explanation on why over the years her acting and her career have seem to go down hill. When i was finished watching the movie, I was really thinking she must have a drug problem. Sorry, just my opinion when you see someone's talent look like it magically disappeared.
Melly

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Haven't really seen her cry in anything except "Face/Off", and it's wasn't all that great, but I just accepted that performance due to her character's age, though I heard her screaming in "Alpha Dog" and couldn't believe my ears. One of the characters offered to get her high and I thought, "Yes pleaseget her high and calm her down"

i16d0 never thought she was a bad actress. better her than rachel bilson who is just awful
you're totatlly les-bi-gay

I haven't seen many of her movies but at times I found her screaming and carrying on in Lolita to be unintentionally funny. I love the movie but it makes me chuckle just a bit. Especially the part where she's running down the stairs just
screaming
at the top of her lungs and he's like "sorry, sorry!" LOL.
Big Gay Al, it has recently come to our attention that you are gay.

Yeah never liked her acting much, but she is strangely enchanting to look at. Very watchable.

skatevegan23 said 'I think the biggest injustice is when we were given free-will and an opinion.'

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Christina Ricci a perfect Lolita ? Ewww that actress is so ugly. No way.
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Christina Ricci would have made a perfect Lolita in 1995-96 when the auditions were being done.
She was turned down four times. Pfft.

I don't know man, I saw her in Face/Off and I thought she played the part well. Smoking hot, and a good actress. Dunno what she's like in the later movies but the screaming in Face/Off all seemed realistic.
Go to the loo, 'cause all the beep's coming out your mouth instead of your a-hole

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I totally agree!! Someone else should've played the part of Lolita

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I'm watching Totally Awesome right now and in this it works because it's the stereotypical teenager from the 80's. I like her in this but I'm about to rent Alpha Dog. Guess I'll see

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paramnesia - what has the fact that the two people complaining are as you put it 'chicks' got to do with anything?
i agree with the some of you by the way, i think she was not the best choice for lolita

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You're not 'stating a fact' you're voicing an opinion. There's a very large difference between the two.