The Sishel Sisters' first film is a low-budget drama about a young lesbian (Alison Folland) coming of age and dealing with her unrequited crush on her heterosexual best friend (Tara Subkoff). Subkoff, meanwhile, is stuck in a monstrously self-destructive relationship with her thuggish, brutal, drug-dealing boyfriend. As they grow up on the mean streets of New York's Hell's Kitchen, they find themselves drifting apart, with Subkoff sinking into a life of drug abuse and Foland making the first awkward, tentative steps toward exploring her sexuality with a cute, extraordinarily patient punk guitarist played by Leisha Halley. There is a sub-plot involving Subkoff's boyfriend murdering Folland's androgynous, openly gay downstairs neighbor, but All Over Me's strengths lay not in its sketchy plot but in its powerfully bleak portrayal of the hell of adolescence. It does a marvelous job capturing the confusion, uncertainty and hopeless yearning that accompany the traumatic transformation from childhood to the terrifying first blushes of adult sexuality. Folland, who played a similar character in 1995's To Die For, gives a powerhouse performance in the lead role, giving her character's heartbreaking search for acceptance an almost visceral power. Intense, vibrant and subversive, All Over Me is one of the best films about female adolescence ever made.