Ripe explores coming of age in a stark military setting
Mo Ogrodnik's feature Ripe examines the sexual awakening of two fourteen year old twins Violet and Rosie on a rundown Army base. Monica Keena and Daisy Eagan deliver brave performances as they navigate thrill and fear, allure and revulsion amid a male dominated world.
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Mo Ogrodnik
Ms. Ogrodnik
Monica Keena
Daisy Eagan
Violet
Keena
Rosie
Eagan
Fee
Fie
Thelma and Louise
Pete
Gordon Currie
Fring Range
Ron Brice
Ripe film shot in Aiken County in 1995
The independent movie Ripe filmed mainly at the former Aiken Youth Correctional Center on US 1 North in August and September 1995. Principal photography occurred within a 30 minute radius of Aiken. Produced by Ripe Productions, a unit of C&P Productions, the project was described as very low-budget.
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Ripe
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Aiken
US. 1 North
Ripe Productions
C&p Productions
Li l Mama's Rules author crafts breakaway fiction
Sheneska Jackson quits a California medical center secretarial post after six weeks of drafting her first novel. Now 27, she publishes Li'l Mama's Rules about Madison McGuire, a teacher at an all-black prep school in Los Angeles. Jackson found inspiration from Terry McMillan and embraced fiction as a path out of dead end work.
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California
Jackson
TV Journalism
Simon & Schuster
Madison McGuire
Los Angeles
Serena
Madison
Terry McMillan
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