Mask

Directed with great sensitivity by Peter Bogdanovich, Cher portrays Rusty with an almost sweet vulnerability.

Complex, moving story most appropriate for teens.

The film's undeniable impact comes from Bogdanovich's willingness to go too far with practically every emotional moment, while maintaining a distant, classical visual style that gives the film a surface dignity and reserve.

Bogdanovich invests the story with warmth, generosity and considerable power.

Movies don't often grab us as quickly as Mask does... This isn't the story of a disease, but the story of some people.

One of those movies that try so hard to get their supposedly universal message across that they are likely to put your teeth on edge more often than they bring one little, lonely teardrop to the eye.

With this rather hazy material, Cher works wonders. Around the vagueness of the story, she weaves her own personal mystery.

There was so much I loved about Mask. Eric Stoltz's excellent performance as the real-life Rocky Dennis, a funny and kind sixteen-year-old with craniodiaphyseal dysplasia...

Exremely well acted family melodrama about a disfigured boy that in the hands of another director could have been a schmaltzy TV Movie of the Week

unforgettable.