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Mini's First Time
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The Village Voice
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July 12, 2006
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Mini's First Time
Written and directed by Nick Guthe
First Independent, opens July 14
Remember when the presence of Alec Baldwin and Jeff Goldblum was a decent guarantee of a pretty good movie? It's been a while. Here, they both play second fiddle to the omnipresent voiceover narration and bikini-clad bod of Thirteen's Nikki Reed, reprising her shtick as a dangerous delinquent, here determined to undertake as many different first-time experiences as possible, including murder. Reed's Mini is the latchkey kid of Hollywood failures, with a mom (Carrie-Anne Moss, ...
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