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Critics rate it 14 points higher than audiences do.
Synopsis
Natasha takes place over the course of one summer. It is the story of Mark Berman, 16, the son of Russian-Jewish immigrants living in the suburbs north of Toronto. When his uncle enters into an arranged marriage with woman from Moscow, the woman arrives in Canada with her fourteen year-old daughter, Natasha. Mark, a slacker, is conscripted by his parents to take responsibility for the strange girl. He learns that, in Moscow, she’d led a troubled and promiscuous life. A secret and forbidden romance begins between the two of them that has bizarre and tragic consequences for everyone involved.
Ratings
IMDb6.2/10
Rotten Tomatoes100%
Metacritic76/100
Critics rate it 14 points higher than audiences do.
30 audience votes
Key crew
- David BezmozgisDirector
- David BezmozgisWriter
Cast
- Alex Ozerov-MeyerMark
- Sasha K. GordonNatasha
- Deanna DezmariBella
- Genadijs DolganovsRoman
- Igor OvadisFima
- Aidan ShipleyRufus
- Aya-Tatyana StolnitsZina
- Pavel TsitrinelMeyer
- Mila KanevDora
- Lola TashZhana
- Alla KadyshFaina
- Sergiy KotelenetsGena
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Themes
toronto, canadaforbidden lovesummersuburbcousin relationshipmatter of factaimless youth