Tracey's frantic speech, repetitive yet evasive, sometimes appears in capital letters other times she manages a dry, deadpan voice, like when she's talking about her psychiatrist. The film was shot on digital video and so it lacks the fine detail of a better film transfer but for the most part the image is strong throughout. Medved skillfully blends Tracey's frenzied facts and fictions into a cohesive portrait of a teenager on the verge of imploding. The Tracey Fragments looks pretty good in the 1.78.1 anamorphic widescreen transfer on this DVD from Image Entertainment (which is unfortunately interlaced). In fragmented prose mirroring Tracey's splintered identity, Medved gradually reveals her protagonist's devastating reality (that Billy Speed raped her) as well as her sources of hope, her 10-year-old vanished brother, Sonny, who thinks he's a dog, and the distorted memory of her grandmother. The flip side of her psychic dislocation is that she vividly dreams of killing her family, strangers and herself. In her utter isolation Tracey often escapes into a fantasy world where a gorgeous boy, Billy Speed, loves her. Yelled, `It's coming.' Tracey's life at her 'scary monster house' is no better, her parents alternately catatonically miserable and ruthlessly cruel they warn Tracy that she'll wind up like her mentally unstable grandmother, who apparently walked the streets in search of abusive men. When It crept against school walls, people held their breath. From the back seat she tells her story in a layered narration that shifts from first- to third-person, when Tracey talks about herself as 'It,' a girl tormented by her classmates and neglected by her parents: 'When It went anywhere, It went alone. Fifteen-year-old Tracey Berkowitz has been riding on a bus through a blizzard for two days, searching for her younger brother and wearing only a shower curtain. The official and FINAL trailer for a new independent feature film - THE TRACEY FRAGMENTS - starring Ellen Page (Hard Candy, X Men 3, American Crime) and dire. Released in United States 2007 (Shown at Vancouver International Film Festival (Canadian Images) September 27-October 12, 2007. Released in United States Spring (NY) Released in United States on Video July 8, 2008. Based on Medved's 1998 novel of the same name, it stars Elliot Page a as Tracey Berkowitz exploring the city in search of her missing brother, presented in a nonlinear narrative and split screen format. Based on the novel 'The Tracey Fragments' by Maureen Medved published by House Of Anansi May 28, 1998.

Now naked and desperate in the middle of a labyrinthine metropolitan nightmare, Tracey makes it her mission to find Sonny no matter how harrowing her quest may become.Another oddly timely book (see above) that comes on the heels of recent headlines of teen violence, Canadian author Medved's debut novel provides an eerie glimpse of a raging adolescent psyche. The Tracey Fragments is a 2007 Canadian psychological drama film directed by Bruce McDonald and written by Maureen Medved. While at first it appears that benevolent rent boy Lance ( Maxwell McCabe-Lokos) may be her guiding light through the darkened city streets, Tracey quickly learns that to trust is to place your life in the hands of someone who may sell you out at a moment's notice. Later, when Sonny disappears, Tracey takes it upon herself to locate her missing sibling and make sure that he finds his way back home. Tormented by her classmates and lost in fantasies about her boyfriend and rock & roll savior Billy Zero ( Slim Twig), the emotionally complex young woman has become enamored with a new student at school who doesn't even realize she exists.

Upon discovering that a botched hypnosis experiment between Tracey and her younger brother, Sonny, has left the young boy emotionally transformed into a canine, the decision is made to send Tracey to a psychiatrist. Tracey is the broken product of an unstable home her father ( Ari Cohen) regards his children as 'accidents,' and her catatonic mother ( Erin McMurtry) only pauses from watching television long enough to light up another cigarette. When the viewer first meets Tracey ( Juno's Ellen Page), she is sitting naked in the back of a bus with only a flimsy shower curtain to guard her from the elements. A 15-year-old girl navigates a dangerous urban landscape in search of the brother whom she has hypnotized into believing he is a dog in director Bruce McDonald's pop-infused, 21st century variation on The Catcher in the Rye.

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