“Jack And Diane” (*1/2 out of four) was a muddled, oppressively obtuse melodrama about a young girl named Jack (Riley Keough) who meets a girl named Diane (Juno Temple) and they fall in love with one another but their relationship becomes progressively obsessive leading to both of them being in emotional hot water. Hazy and synthetic characters and script and directed with stilted aloofness by Bradley Rust Gray. Made in 2012 but being re-released now. Allegedly inspired by the classic John Mellencamp song but other Mellencamp song titles “Nothin’ Matters And What If It Did”, “The Full Catastrophe”, and “Down In The Bottom” are more apt descriptions of sitting through this.

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