Poison Ivy Summary
MPAA Rating: R
Director: Andy Ruben, Katt Shea Ruben
Genres: Drama
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The always challenging transition from adorable child performer to sexy adult star was achieved flamboyantly by actress Drew_Barrymore with this erotic drama that unfolds like a paranoia-drenched Lolita (1962). Sylvie Cooper (Sara_Gilbert) is a misanthropic student at a private high school for children of the privileged. While calling in a phony bomb threat to the TV station where her father, Darryl (Tom_Skerritt) is a producer, Sylvia attracts the attention of Ivy (Drew_Barrymore). Ivy is an orphan from a poor family, attending the school on a scholarship. She and Sylvia quickly become best friends, and Ivy eventually moves out of her aunt's home and into the Cooper household. Ivy covets the Coopers' lavish lifestyle and luxuries, so she begins plotting to kill Sylvie's ailing mother Georgie (Cheryl_Ladd), then seduce the alcoholic Darryl and frame Sylvie for the crime, thus taking over the Cooper house. Director Katt_Shea_Ruben and her co-writer husband Andy_Ruben were veterans of the Roger_Corman school of filmmaking. The success of Poison Ivy (1992) on video and cable television inspired a pair of sequels, Poison_Ivy_2:_Lily (1996) and Poison_Ivy:_The_New_Seduction (1997). Karl Williams, Rovi
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