Electrick Children was a very entertaining movie with a great cast. This story line was very creative. The movie was very symbolic. Although at some points within the movie, it was a bit hard to follow. My favorite part of the movie was when the mother had a connection with Rachel as she gave her the keys to the car late at night.

The first two-thirds of ELECTRIK CHILDREN has a spacey, ethereal beauty. The setting is the awesomely majestic landscape of the Utah high country though soon contrasted with the grit of Las Vegas. Though the children of each venue would seem similarly disparate, they bond remarkably well - so much better than adults would in a similar situation. The review blurb tells you 'Fundamentalist Mormon girl believes she's impregnated by music and travels to Las Vegas to find the father..." suggesting a comedy or calamity. Surprise, such is sincerely introduced and rendered entirely believable. The out-of-element Mormon kids could appear as exploitable prey to the stoner/skateboard punks. Surprise, the two teen cultures treat one another as fellow travelers in the anxious world of growing up. ELECTRIK CHILDREN would have done well to have simply ended with the ambiguity learned by coming-of-age experience. Unfortunately, the film gets too busy in it's last third, introducing characters, plot devises and unnecessary resolution. Notwithstanding, the film's tone and touches offer a sincerity and sweetness sorely lacking in movies today. I very much applaud this indie effort and recommend it without reservation.

Apparently rebellious Mormon teenage girl runs away. She's just found out she's pregnant because she was raped but she can't remember the rape though it was no more than a couple months earlier. She's never even seen a tape recorder but she can identify a vintage Mustang in the middle of the night as it drives through what looks like a quiet middle class residential neighborhood.Rock dudes take her and her brother with them indefinitely. They guess she's pregnant because of no logical reason whatsoever and dude says girl's damaged goods because she's pregnant. One rocker dude falls in love with pregnant girl, apparently, and out of nowhere, and says he'll marry her. Then red Mustang drives up to the church to interrupt wedding, which was arranged 2 seconds earlier. And long-gone dad just what, gives the happy couple his Mustang.What a strangled attempt at creating an epic, tried just too hard guys. This movie seems like an attempt to make an indie/hipster epic but it failed. What a desperate attempt at being oh-so- rebellious. Let's see, uhm, a little too weak.

'Electrick Children' follows the story of a pregnant, 15 year old Rachel living in a Mormon society in present day. She claims that the father of her unborn child is the voice of a singer on a rock cassette she listened to, insisting that 'God got her pregnant through the tape'. When being forced to confess to her parents that she has sinned, frustrated that they won't believe her miracle and are persistent in arranging a marriage for her the next day, Rachel steals her father's truck and journey's into Las Vegas in order to find the singer on the tape. This 'coming of age' story is the first feature film of director Rebecca Thomas and stars actress Julia Garner, who is very convincing in her performance of the naïve, 'fish-out-the water' teenager alongside our skater/stoner character that happens to take a shine to her when they meet in Las Vegas. Clyde, played by Rory Culkin, does a great job in capturing the emotions of his character and is beginning to step out of his brothers' shadows in becoming a star in his own right. The film is enticing up until the last half hour when a charge of events and little time for the audience to comprehend them leads the ending to seem quite messy. Regardless, this film is successful in capturing teenage emotion and I have nothing but praise for Julia Garner and Rory Culkin who performed their roles wonderfully.