There is no real plot, focus, direction or point. The reviewer for wrote that "The end really isn't an ending. The reviewer for PopMatters wrote that " Tart is another in a long line of unoriginal attempts to explore one girl’s desire to fit in." The reviewer for AllMovie wrote that " Tart is a straightforward depiction of self-possessed, spoiled teens, is the best argument yet for getting an after-school job in the late high school years". The film ends with Cat and her mother resolving their own familial conflict and her mother apologizing to her in Central Park. After school that afternoon, the paparazzi and reporters interview the students with questions about Delilah, and they all deem her "reckless" and have little to say of her. The following morning, after searching for Delilah, Cat discovers that Delilah's body has been found and William arrested. Delilah screams at him and threatens to press charges, and, in a panic, he beats her to death. He pushes her, causing her to hit her head on a rock. William chases after Delilah and confronts her in the woods on her way back to the beach, and the two get into an argument. While there, she stumbles upon William receiving oral sex from a male drug dealer. Delilah walks to a nearby gay bar operated by Kenny, where she tries to find a ride back to the city for her and Cat. There, she confronts Delilah, and the two argue about Cat abandoning her, but make up. Hearing about a party hosted by Delilah on the beach in The Hamptons, Cat goes to stay the night with Eloise at her house, using it as an opportunity to attend the party. After some of Cat's anti-semitic friends find out her father is Jewish, she is ostracized, and only accepted by the prim Eloise, who befriends her. William and Cat pursue a brief relationship, which he ends, leaving Cat distraught. Cat surrounds herself with some of the school's most popular students, befriending Grace, an English exchange student, and attending holiday parties held by Peg which are often frequented by Kenny, an ephebophile who supplies cocaine to the teenagers and tries to have sex with the young men.Īmidst struggles at home between her divorced parents, Cat becomes attracted to William Sellers, a delinquent who comes from an abusive household, and who also is significantly less wealthy than his peers. Cat begins to fall in with the popular crowd at her prep school, abandoning her rebellious longtime friend, Delilah, who is expelled from the school. Cat Storm is a teenager attending an elite preparatory school in 1980s Manhattan.
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