Skipped Parts

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Skipped Parts
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Promotional poster
Directed byTamra Davis
Screenplay byTim Sandlin
Based onSkipped Parts
by Tim Sandlin
Starring
CinematographyClaudio Rocha
Edited by
  • Luis Colina
  • Michael R. Miller
Music byStewart Copeland
Distributed byTrimark Pictures
Release date
  • January 5, 2001 (2001-01-05)[1]
Running time
100 minutes
LanguageEnglish

Skipped Parts (also known as The Wonder of Sex) is a 2000 American coming of age comedy-drama film directed by Tamra Davis, and starring Jennifer Jason Leigh, Bug Hall, Mischa Barton, Drew Barrymore, and Brad Renfro. Its plot follows a young teenage boy and his wayward mother who relocate to Wyoming, chronicling her travails and his discovering of his sexuality. The screenplay was adapted by Tim Sandlin, from his own 1991 novel of the same name.

After making the film-festival rounds in 2000, the film had a limited release by Trimark Pictures. It was filmed in Indian Head, Saskatchewan, Regina, Saskatchewan, Fort Qu'Appelle, Saskatchewan and Regina Beach, Saskatchewan.

Plot[]

In 1963, liberal-minded and reckless Lydia Callahan is raising her 14-year-old son, Sam. Lydia's father Caspar, a prominent local businessman, is running for governor of North Carolina, and does not want Lydia and Sam in his way, so the two are banished from North Carolina. They travel across the country and settle in Wyoming, where Lydia only wants to have a good time and refuses to allow Sam to call her "mom."

Sam soon finds out that he is one of only two students in Gro Vont High School who read. The other one is Maurey, a girl the same age as Sam who wants to learn about sex. Consequent to their mutual discoveries, Maurey becomes pregnant. She decides to have an abortion in a distant hospital, and by accident, runs into her mother and the baseball coach who is also there with the same intent.

After that Maurey moves in with Lydia and Sam since her father banished her from his house. Meanwhile, Hank Elkrunner, a Blackfoot, falls for the feckless Lydia, while her dictatorial dad keeps tabs on them all from afar, A little later Maurey and Sam had some coffee while as Maurey asks not to do kissing to Sam because she has to say this and he agrees while they drink together.

Later when in the bedroom Maurey and Sam were in their underwear (Maurey in bikini and Sam in “tighty-whitey” underpants) and the clothes were hanging in the bed, Maurey asks Sam to go first to strip down but asks to do it to her and she did later when Maurey asks Sam to go for it and he did he removes his underwear down, Eventually they both stood unclothed, bare nude and topless, that embarrassed Sam but Maurey confesses her to do so, and they embrace while Maurey bid into tears and say sorry to him.

At midnight while Maurey and Sam we’re asleep a rustling went towards to them so when they check what’s going on a different man and a woman we’re kissing and making out with them then he crept down into covers when the couple we’re about to drag themselves in and then when the man was in his boxer shorts he went to get something and after that he went back.

In the end, Maurey decided not to have an abortion and kept the baby, a little girl named Shannon. After being threatened to be financially cut off unless she breaks up with Hank, and lets Sam go to Military School, Lydia decides to stay with Hank, and takes a job at the local diner. In addition, Hank sells his trailer and moves in with Sam and Lydia, along with Maurey and Shannon who decide to permanently move in. The film ends with Sam finishing the flashback for the story, with Shannon nearby.

Throughout the movie, Sam has many dream fantasies that star Drew Barrymore as the subject of his fantasies.

Cast[]

Production[]

Though set in Wyoming, the film was shot in Saskatchewan, Canada[2] in the summer of 1999.[3]

Release[]

The film premiered at the Seattle International Film Festival on June 6, 2000.[2] It was subsequently released theatrically in the United States on January 5, 2001.[1]

Home media[]

Trimark Home Entertainment released the film on DVD in 2001.[4]

Censorship[]

In the movie, there are some private scenes which are rated +19 and some banned nudity and sexual scenes, in the clip scene of a couple removing their clothes and exposing their undergarments, in another clip scene Maurey and Sam removing their underwear while the scene is removed for strict age.

References[]

  1. ^ a b Deming, Mark. "Skipped Parts". AllMovie. Archived from the original on June 27, 2020.
  2. ^ a b "Skipped Parts". Variety. June 6, 2000. Archived from the original on June 27, 2020.
  3. ^ "Skipped Parts: Miscellaneous Notes". Turner Classic Movies. Archived from the original on June 27, 2020.
  4. ^ Beierle, Aaron (July 4, 2001). "Skipped Parts: DVD Talk Review of the DVD". DVD Talk. Archived from the original on June 27, 2020.

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