Fairaher The film makes a home in your brain and the only cure is to see it again.

Numerootno A story that's too fascinating to pass by...

Ava-Grace Willis Story: It's very simple but honestly that is fine.

Anoushka Slater While it doesn't offer any answers, it both thrills and makes you think.

scifiguy-42 Found this film and started watching it mostly because the premise is basic to all science fiction or fantasy. You pose an intriguing "what if" and then see how people deal with it. The more interesting the "what if", and how well the writing proceeds logically and realistically from there, the better.My wife and I watched the movie together and enjoyed it very much. Sure, it's not perfect. There are a number of obvious musical and driving fillers for example that mostly eat up time do not move the plot along much. However, the writing and acting is good throughout, and we really cared about what would happen to the main characters. We even cared about some of the secondary ones.This is my first review. I looked the movie up on IMDb primarily because I wanted to see if a sequel had ever been made. We'd truly like to see where the story goes from where it ended.Kudos to all involved!

TxMike This is a small, quirky but interesting movie.Eileen April Boylan is Dakota Skye, a senior in high school in Phoenix. As she describes in the opening voice-over, she has a super power, but not the typical type. She isn't extra strong, she can't fly, and a bullet would surely kill her. But she can tell when people are lying and what they really mean. As we see her friends say things to her, white subtitles tell us what they really mean. Her boyfriend is J.B. Ghuman Jr. as Kevin. Kevin is a singer in a grunge band and tells Dakota "I love you" but the subtitles tell us he means "I want sex." Dakota seems stuck at a crossroads, her friends are all studying for the SAT but she doesn't know what she wants to do. Things get complicated when Ian Nelson as Jonah Moreno shows up in town. He is an old friend of Kevin's, in fact used to be in the band, but now lives in New York and hopes to make it as an actor.Jonah is different in one very important way. He never lies to Dakota. She finds that interesting, even tries to surprise him with a tough question, but he is honest with her. This is a first in her life and she doesn't quite know how to handle it. A different movie, I enjoyed it.SPOILERS: Dakota finally started getting tired of Kevin's antics and ended up spending a 24-hour time with Jonah when they ended up at the Grand Canyon at daybreak, probably a 5-hour, 250 mile trip. They developed a chemistry, but Dakota was stuck, not knowing what to do. Jonah left for NY, eventually Dakota abandoned the relationship she seemed stuck in and looked Jonah up in NY.

donna-119 I was at the Phoenix Film Festival this weekend, and it was one of the strongest batch of quality films I've seen at a festival. There were none of those high- profile stinkers (like Hound Dog) that always seem to slip into these showcases. Just good cinema.By far the Best of the Fest was a little film called DAKOTA SKYE. It's a coming of age story (strike 1) with no stars (strike 2). But the film does not deserve to go back to the lockers. This should be seen by the widest audience possible. (At the fest, I saw a similar remarkable film, the already acclaimed American Teen. This was even better.)And while it's about a 16 year-old girl growing up in Phoenix, the film is not your typical coming of age drama...not even close. There's a (let's say) superhero element that makes the film completely unique (without relying on its gimmick like say, What Women Want.) The ingenious script by Chad Shonk (who so deserved the Award he won) merely uses his gimmick as a jumping off point, to explore issues of trust. I am not the target audience for this film, yet it spoke to me in a way I would not have expected. (It's even more exceptional that the film was written, produced and directed by men, yet is such a strong woman's picture.)And the cast may not be stars, but they can Act, with a capital A. Eileen Boylan gets a star-making part as the emotionally conflicted Dakota. She plays well off of Ian Nelson and J.B. Ghuman as the two men in her life. Each performer brings a different energy to the film, and you can see what appeals to Dakota and draws her to both guys. (The conflict is highlighted in an amazing movie theater scene that contains some of the film's best dialogue and most subtly powerful direction.) Nelson shows the skills of a solid leading man, while Ghuman should be required casting for any filmmaker looking for an actor who can steal the movie. His mixture of jerkiness and emotional sincerity should be taught to other actors of his generation who keep messing parts like this up.The film is really well edited. For a dialogue-heavy film, there's a lot of montages and they feel carefully planned, not scraped together out of whatever footage was lying around. (Something that you come to expect to find in a first-time Indie film.) And it's all tied up with a light and bouncy score that knows when to come in and when to let the actors do the heavy lifting.I learned this is the feature debut of director John Humber, and I can't wait to see where he goes next. This is an assured first film (like the best parts of Sofia Coppola's The Virgin Suicides or David Gordon Green's George Washington.) My big fear is that, with no stars to push, the film will get lost on the festival circuit and we will all lose out on one of the most exciting filmmakers I've seen in a while. I urge everybody to mark this page, google the film, do whatever you have to. If this film comes to your town, DO NOT MISS IT. If you happen to be on a festival committee, don't be so quick to give it a pass. (Like Hustle & Flow, the film gets better and better as it goes on.) You'll want to say that you played this film and supported this filmmaker. (He also gives an excellent Q&A.)DAKOTA SKYE, the best independent film that isn't getting enough attention.p.s. I was inspired to write this review because I worry the film won't get released in theaters or come out on DVD. And I really want to own this film on DVD. I don't want the festival to be the one and only time I get to watch it.

devils05 I just saw this movie at the Phoenix film festival where it won the award for best screenplay. The writing was very deserving of the award. The story is terrific and the dialogue very believable. The apathy and cynicism she has developed over the years with her ability to see through the lies of others plays very well and is very relatable because we have all felt that way at some point in our lives when we have seen through a lie that we had once believed in. The story is a very realistic exploration of the meaning and definition of truth and what role it plays in our lives. All of the actors were of believable age as well, which is often hard to find in a film involving high school age characters. Terrific movie well worth seeing and I hope it makes it into wider distribution.