DramaYear1984Duration1h 32mIMDb6.4

Old Enough

Drama

Twelve-year-old Lonnie Sloan is a well-to-do New York rich kid and Karen Bruckner is the more ordinary, impoverished New York kid. They happen to meet one day on the street in their neighborhood and hit it off.

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Cast

MS

Marisa Silver

Director

Sarah Boyd

Lonnie

Rainbow Harvest

Karen

Neill Barry

Johnny

Alyssa Milano

Diane

Danny Aiello

Mr. Bruckner

SK

Susan Kingsley

Mrs. Bruckner

Roxanne Hart

Carla

Fran Brill

Mrs. Sloan

Gerry Bamman

Mr. Sloan

Anne Pitoniak

Katherine

CW

Charlie Willenger

Danny

MM

Michael Monetti

Mikey

MJ

Manny Jacobs

Jimmy

GB

Gina Battist

Marlene

Paul Butler

Security Guard

Judith Drake

Store Employee

PR

Primy Rivera

Spanish Boy

NK

Nance Kass

Shopper in Store

MS

Marisa Silver

Writer

Comments

10 Comments

Sho MadjoziOct 16, 2023

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Ajishir♥️Nov 16, 2022

Old Enough

Ayoub AjiadeeNov 16, 2022

This movie is such an underdog. It is such a great movie that will never be captured again. Innocence, growing, great acting for such young people. The eyes alone tell the story. I highly recommend this movie. And Danny Aiello Is great as usual. These are people that never went anywhere and should have. The director was 24 years old. It encompasses everything a naive young girl, or woman would see in the city being from a rich foundation. Her compadre is just as naive towards the rich. She doesn't even know what to do as far as opening or closing doors with a maid. Simply gratifying movie that has been left in the dust.

Tima MNov 16, 2022

Living in New York City at the time of this film, and doing more than a few performances there, around the corner from my apartment at 4th & LaFayette Streets, I often wonder how films like "Old Enough" get made. I mean, where do they start and how do they develop? I'm sure that this is a great 'coming of age' film, but where does the inspiration start and why doesn't IMDb have pictures of the lead character {they only seem to have pictures of A list people}. Strange, I don't remember any "Old Enough" before I wrote "Old Enough" which you can find under /Artists/TerryJames/Lyrics/OldEnough/OldEnough.html which John Hughes used in "Home Alone." Like IMDb, there seemed to be a lack of listing the song credits here too. But make it worth your while to go see this film, it's worth it. I just love "original" ideas!

Courtnaé PaulNov 16, 2022

Some people would watch this movie because it's the debut of Alyssa Milano, but those people have no idea who Rainbow Harvest is. Rainbow was in two made for TV movies, a few TV shows and a handful of movies, including Mirror, Mirror and then she disappeared. She's wonderful in this, a streetwise teenager who wins over Milano's rich little girl and teaches her the ways of the world. Danny Aiello plays her dad and instead of preaching, he beats her up repeatedly. This won the Grand Jury Prize at Sundance in 1984 and is probably the only movie ever reviewed on this site that has honor. So it has that going for it. I promise to make up for this veer into respectability by watching something morally abhorrent next.

SallNov 16, 2022

Enjoyable little film about friendship, the fun and pains of growing up, and incidently, growing up on the streets of New York; Though not for everybody, this is still engaging to watch. 4/5 stars.... Maybe we see on DVD one day, no?

jo'21Nov 16, 2022

This is a story of a friendship between an unlikely pair but kids don't care. One young girl comes from a well-bred upper class family and another girl is a street smart daughter of a New York apt. building super. They learn from one another about a different culture and the dialog is fantastic - extremely believable. I'm sorry the overall rating this movie received was so mediocre. The low scores were obviously given by persons out of touch with real life, especially from the perspective of a young girl.

Nancy IsimeNov 16, 2022

I was also surprised to see the low rating of this great little film. I saw it as a teen in the mid 80's on cable and, like so many others, was unable to stop watching this story through to its end. Even though it now looks so dated, I mean, no dot coms, facebook or cell phones here, the meat of the story holds true now, as it did in '84. The acting is fine and the issues are realistic. Speaking for myself, as a young teen-aged girl growing up in New Orleans, I could totally relate to the emotions expressed by the two lead characters, both New Yorkers, because the feelings were universal. If you're a female, you'll probably get it (and let me just say, I don't usually enjoy 'chick-flicks'). Like someone else has already posted, I, too, look forward to my own daughter viewing this film. It's still one of my all-time faves & whenever I catch it on TV, I still have to watch it, all these years later. I'd say it has stood the test of time.

Mahlet solomonNov 16, 2022

This movie has a very very special quality to it. Yes, I understand it's dated. You don't have to tell me the dialogue is totally basic nearly throughout. This is a classic 1980's movie. This movie touches on something. The ending scene very nearly spells it out, but it keeps its message veiled, and leaves it for you to figure it out, like all good movies should.

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