Bloomington

Plot synopsis:
Jackie Kirk (Sarah Stouffer), a 19-year-old former child actress begins attending college in Bloomington, Indiana to get away from the public spotlight of Hollywood. During her first week there at orientation, Jackie catches the eye of an infamous, womanizing lesbian teacher, named Catherine Stark (Allison McAtee). Catherine invites Jackie over to her house and before long, both are in bed making love.Catherine and Jackie begin a secret and scandalous affair that draws Jackie away from the college social life. Catherine and Jackie grow closer as they help each other discover more about themselves, when suddenly Jackie gets the chance to return to acting. Catherine becomes uncomfortable with their situation, seeing how it could seemingly never work out, with Jackie having to constantly visit Catherine under the guise of her just being a "friend", as it would be hazardous for both of them for should their romance ever got out.Catherine attempts to distance herself from Jackie by trying to declare they were never in a formal relationship, and that Jackie is not worth it in Catherine's eyes, while Jackie claims Catherine is worth it. The next day Jackie shows up at Catherine's doorstep... beat up after defending Catherine's reputation. Catherine sees paparazzi taking pictures and quickly drags Jackie into the house. While Catherine is taking care of Jackie, she notices Catherine is wearing a dress. When questioned about it, she reveals she is attending a party, Jackie asks if she is going alone, Catherine says no but will not reveal her date, and will not let Jackie replace her date, claiming she would just be attention starved. Jackie offends Catherine by insulting her for not being financed by her own means.Jackie stays on the couch at Catherine's house when Catherine returns from the party, acting passive-aggressive towards Jackie, she brings her date, a male closer to her age, into her room, causing Jackie to leave. Jackie goes to a party and hangs out with college friends.After leaving for L.A. to set up for the release of a new show Jackie's been cast in, Catherine loses her job due to her relationship with Jackie being partially exposed.Months later, Jackie and Catherine are shown sleeping together one last time. Saying their goodbyes as a formal end to their romance, Jackie leaves the next day for her new role back in California.

Tags: romantic

Review:
Like watching Mylie Cyrus and Sharon Stone fall in love.
Almost immediately she meets Professor Catherine Stark (McAtee), a sexy psychology professor with a reputation for bedding female undergrads.
After the requisite sex scenes and laughing and cooking together and reveling in all the fun they are having, they (you guessed it) fall in love.Watching lesbian movies is like having your girlfriend cook you dinner.
No matter what it tastes like you are going to love it because you know how much care and effort she put into it.
I watch them the whole time hoping I don't have to cover my eyes for another embarrassing round of boring plot lines, terrible acting and an endless loop of the one Ani Difranco song the producers could get the rights to.
Bloomington starts promisingly but too much of the film is hard to swallow, from the casual way it treats an ethically-questionable sexual relationship between student and teacher to its somewhat anti-climactic ending.It's not the worst lesbian film I've ever seen.
Good movie poor ending but great acting.
This movie was very well acted it could of been great if not for the plot and poor ending.
There were so many opportunities and different story lines luckily the actresses in the film were not only good looking but good actors.
Catherines character was acted so brilliantly and the young Jackie was quite good also.
I hope these actresses come to light again in more films just like this one..
I found myself watching the movie over and over because of the relationship and chemistry the two have.
I think there needs to be more lesbian love stories on TV and the inappropriate relationship in this movie would make for an extremely captivating show..
The relationship that started almost as soon as Catherine and Jackie met was hot, sure, but I didn't believe it.
They always contradict their actions with their words and vice versa.The characters were beautiful, and I thought they could have made a really good lesbian movie.
I won't be watching this movie again or recommending it to anyone..
What can I say about this movie, but feel the story is well told.
I love how both characters grew as people.The only reason I didn't give this movie a 10 was how Catherine says to a sleeping Jackie she loved her, but never says again.
I wish she did because maybe there wouldn't be so much friction When the two said good by left me heart broken because Catherine clearly loved Jackie so sad..
It's a simple story, it reminded me of the movie "High Art" in the way the two characters get involved.
There are several raccord issues, the photography it's not the best but I know they filmed in digital and with a reduced budget so I understand that.To sum up, when we watch a movie like "Bloomington" we have to identify it as a low budget movie with a team that is still learning, but they are in the right path.For all the team involved in this movie I just want to say: Your effort was worthwhile and ...
I wanted to like this movie.
It seems that creators wanted to put as much as possible into the movie and we get sloppy story like overcooked pasta.
Nothing fits, emotions are non-existent and the kid looks like female Haley Joel Osment.
There are many things that don't fit here and many scenes are just few seconds long without going deeper into emotions and the whole relation that should be built on..
I really wanted to like this film, but I saw no chemistry between the lead characters at all.
The character of Jackie exhibited no real emotional response to her professor, and the professor was totally casual throughout the film.
The characters looked like they were just going through the motions..
This movie is perfect in every sense, ending too.
It is hoped and speculated that the movie runs beyond the time frame and every single person should watch this movie because this film is all about love, and at the end a human, queer or homophobic, should want them back together, no matter how many more times they fall apart, and understanding that this falling apart in obvious in any relationship, and that only love is not enough for people to hold together.
People may not like reality in movies, but sometime a reminder is essential..
It feels like some random scenes were added to fill up the rest of movie.
And we were like "WTF was that movie?!?!?!?!??!!?" Completely spoiled my lesbian teacher fantasy forever.
So, other thoughts...We really like lesbians, but this wasn't a good movie about lesbians.
At first i thought i was not going to like it one bit as i am more into action movies, but watched it from start to finish and found it to be quite good acting and also quite a good story.
I imagined there was going to be something sinister due to the fact that it is a story about a sexual, or lesbian relationship between -teacher and student and was expecting to see a teacher stalking a young student but that does not happen and Jackie (the student) accepts the first kiss in an isolated area of the school grounds quite willingly.From then on the movie evolves mainly focused on the romance that develops between the two of them.
Catherine,(the professor) reminded me somewhat of Sharron Stone when she acted in the movie-Basic instinct.I found this to be light hearted and romantic and the only drama was when Jackie decides to return Home and the relationship is threatened.There is no erotica or nude scenes as some would expect with our modern day films.
My thoughts were more like "Okay, where is this thing going?" Followed after a long while by "Waitthat's where it was going?" There are also several stray threads scattered through the story, making it appear as though these filmmakers were never able to take all the ideas in their heads and fully transfer them to the screen.
Such an amateurish quality to the storytelling prevents it from fully engaging the viewer, but the very appealing presence of Allison McAtee and an overall feeling of earnest goodwill also keeps it from ever being annoying.Jackie (Sarah Stouffer) is a former child star who's gone away to college.
She almost immediately hooks up with the scariest professor on campus, Catherine Stark (Allison McAtee).
Though she makes an imperious first impression, Stark turns out to be a solicitous lover and an almost motherly companion to Jackie and they blow through flirting to full blown relationship as quickly as The Flash dons the costume he keeps compressed in his ring.
Then Jackie gets an offer to be the lead in a movie version of her old series, which results in Stark turning into a rather large bitch.
Yeah, that's how it ends.I don't know if writer/director Fernanda Cordoso was unconsciously working out any mother issues with this script, but the way Jackie's relationships with Stark and with her mother flip from sweetness and light to nasty and dark neither fit nor are justified by what's going on in the film.
If that's the case, it comes off like it was all tossed in during a last minute rewrite.Bloomington also has an awful lot of makeout scenes without managing to have one legitimate sex scene.
I can't imagine anyone comes away from Bloomington caring more about Jackie than they do about Stark.
Like the straight stuff, though, after you've seen one of these you never really need to watch another..
Catherine stole the show, but Jackie was also a good character.
Unfortunately the story line of teacher and student just doesn't work out when love comes into play!
Loved the movie and I think I will try to catch anything that Allison McAtee is in!
This is a ho-hum movie, born out of a ho-hum script.Much has been said from the other reviewers who draw attention to the lack of realism in the characters, particularly their shifting from emotions so quickly and seemingly without justification to the lack of any chemistry between the leads, the lack of any erotic scenes, and the implausibility in the script.
I'm saying I agree.What I object to is not the fact that they are lesbians, or that there is an age difference, but that the entire relationship between teacher and student barely causes a ripple.
Sure we've seen those movies before and this isn't the focus of the film, but to not address it in some form is ridiculous.
Her daughter Jackie clearly has mother issues, yet this is not explored either, especially in her relationship with Catherine (who at one point cuts up some food for Jackie during dinner like a child).
You cannot make a film about a teacher having a relationship with a underage student and not address the moral dilemma's involved.
My girlfriend and I were in the mood to watch a cheesy lesbian movie, and bingo, we found it in Bloomington.
OK, here we go:So the movie starts out with this Haley Joel Osment look-a-like named Jackie, a former child star, who is going off to college.
In no time at all, Jackie meets Catherine, a psychology professor who is notorious for sleeping with her students, but is somehow still employed by the university.
Literally in the span of five minutes Jackie is helping Catherine carry a stack of books, and then ends up at her fancy house where they have sex, I think, I'm not sure, they don't show anything at all, ever.
Jackie and Catherine's relationship escalates so quickly it had us rolling with laughter.
At one point my girlfriend was literally mumbling, "No, no, no," during one of the "sex scenes" where Jackie is rattling off lines from the canceled Sci-fi show she starred in as a kid.
And, of course, as with most terrible lesbian movies, both women end up sleeping with dudes, because women crave dick no matter how relentlessly gay they are.
In my opinion the ending isn't so negative because Jackie mentions to Catherine that she has her number so they will probably meet or talk again to each other in the future.
In most lesbian movies the couple separate without any hope of seeing each other in the future.
I think that the good bye scene was the best of the movie because it was so artfully done.
Jackie looks down and asks Catherine what she will do in the future.
When Catherine answers Jackie looks up and has tears in her eyes which I found very moving.
However, she was the one who started the affair by kissing Jackie on the party just a few seconds after they met for the first time.
In my opinion, this is one of the best lesbian movies.
if you're into sweet things and romances, then I sincerely be happy that someone can appreciate this kind of film like I did.
I based it on likeness, enjoyment and the after-effects of watching the film.
well, maybe i'm into les or bi kind of film at this moment and i liked Catherine so much(I never knew there is Allison Mcatee in Hollywood, never heard or seen her before) but i also liked the scripts and the acting.
Anyone else see character resemblance between Allison McAtee's 'Catherine Stark' and Sharon Stone's 'Catherine Trammell' in the 1992 sex thriller 'Basic Instinct?' Certainly the two actresses share a physical likeness, but if you ask me, Fernanda Cardoso conjured her Catherine from one of those gauzy sex dreams where you wake up feeling frisky but you can't quite put your finger on why.
As Catherine begins to fall for Jackie, she becomes more nurturing, less dominating, more vulnerable, thus the bathing scene/food-cutting/jealousy arc.
As time goes on, you see Catherine's emotional limits begin to crumble as Jackie begins to step back into the Hollywood world where she has the power.
The actresses had good chemistry and their scenes together are the strongest but left too much to the viewer's own interpretation.
The typical 'dyke drama' as revealed in a number scenes, e.g., both of them sleeping with men, Catherine's denial of it being a relationship, their mutual unwillingness to be a public couple, is all rather standard lesbian relationship fare.
the storyline is simple enough; a former child star,jackie who was on a hit sci-fi TV series grows up and decides to leave the show business and pursue an education at a local college where she starts mixing with her peers and getting to live life away from TV sets and other fellow actors.
she clearly wants to live a regular life and start doing things on her own terms but gains un-wanted interest, admiration or jealousy of being famous by her her peers.while at a department mixer, she meets and is instantly attracted to psychology professor catherine stark who has a reputation of seducing her students.
the two lead actresses had great chemistry and enough sexual tension between them for a believable relationship.while controversial student and teacher relationship have been portrayed on screen before ie.
jackie is an adult who has made up her mind to further her education and start living in the real world.i had read reviews where people were disappointed with how the storyline ended since both characters did not end up together.
she is hesitant and un-sure if she is ready to make that step back into the show business as it would clearly change the course of her life and relationship with catherine which at that point is flourishing.i felt the ending to the film was left on a positive note and was realistic.
since jackie hasn't identified her sexuality she isn't ready to go public with her relationship with catherine as it could possibly jeopardize and end her future career.
I liked this movie.
At first I thought Catherine was very predatory but as the movie progressed I fell in love with her.
I have never seen Allison McAtee before, never heard of her, but am very impressed with how she developed this character.
There is really no way these two could be together at the end, but I really wanted Catherine to have found the "love of her life".
I liked Jackie in this movie but I think this movie belongs to Catherine..
I really felt their emotions as they play their part perfectly...At first, I really thought it would be boring and they don't look good together but as I continued watching the movie, it's totally perfect!!I just didn't like the ending very well..
I felt sorry for Catherine 'cause it seems like she's the one who loved more (surprisingly) 'cause I really thought Jackie will be the one who will fall head over heels over her sophisticated beautiful professor and Catherine lost her job for her, but Jackie gets to leave and have a beautiful career.I know it might be impossible but I sure hope there'll be a sequel, but this time, they will have a happy ending..Thumbs up!!!
If you are looking forward something romantic even the ending is not really " happy-ending " at all, you will fall in love with this movie..
It's not like other bad lesbian movies where one of the girls is tormented by her sexually or is surrounded by horrible people.
The main character is a bland college girl who falls in love with her sexually active female professor.
It feels like there are many little parts missing in this movie.While the set up of a Student - Teacher relationship is nothing new, it still kinda works in this movie.
While also adding the angle of exposure for the Student and not only the Teacher.-all the spoilers now-But that also makes the movie weird and questionable.
The Drama between Jackie and her mother seems unnecessary, it doesn't really add to Jackie and Catherine meeting (beside that one scene where Catherine picked Jackie up for her family), it has nothing to do with the Problem (which would be Jackie going back to making movies), and nothing with them getting over it.
Or maybe to explain why they wanted to film in a nice big house?Then there is their whole relationship.
The first Kiss from Catherine comes way to early and before I could feel any kind of connection growing.
Only to then lead to the first sex scene like 10 seconds later.
The viewer (or I at least) couldn't see them bounding, but rather just got told, that its the next stage now.And just like the whole relationship feels like there are parts missing to make the story connect, there are single scenes being cut weirdly.
Just because Jackie would have to film a little, there is no reason why the relationship between them would be in danger.
Though, a Filmstar and a Professor are probably not that common and maybe not that easy for the viewer to put oneself into.But then the Film ended.
Catherine emptying her office may points to her quitting her job so she can be with Jackie?
Not an open ending, for the viewer to decide what happened, but just abrupt.So overall I did like the story (or maybe I just like this kind of story) and the scenes that worked, were nice, but with all the bumpiness in between, the movie just doesn't feels that good and is kinda strange.
Strange enough to make me write my first review on here, since I felt like I had to somehow/somewhere point out why this movie isn't that good..
For anyone who did not see that movie I found it very good and worth a second watch.
I just could not get past the student teacher relationship.
The student had mother issues and I believe they transfered into her relationship with the teacher.