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If you believe films like Heathers and Mean Girls, there’s nothing nastier than a female clique. Adding to the myth of feral femmes is the sinister drama Cracks, the debut film of Jordan Scott (daughter of Ridley). Set in the ’30s at the spooky, all-girl St. Mathilda’s School, it centers on an elite swim team and its affable coach, Miss G. With the arrival of Fiamma, a new girl with enviable diving skills, the team’s social hierarchy is shaken, and Miss G becomes unhealthily obsessed with the recent addition. Fiamma, having not drunk the St. Mathilda Kool-Aid, is disturbed by Miss G’s fawning and sees the psychosis boiling underneath the coach’s polished appearance. The rest of the team rushes to defend the increasingly delusional coach and get rid of the new girl messing everything up, proving once again you should never mess with a gaggle of girls trying to maintain their social status. Cracks was released in the UK in 2009, and it makes its South Florida theatrical debut this Friday at Coral Gables Art Cinema, with screenings through June 16. Tickets cost $9. In tandem with the Out in the Tropics festival, a women’s reception will precede the 8 p.m. screening this Sunday. Tickets cost $20.
Fri., June 10, 7:15 p.m., 2011
