Babyteeth

A terminally ill teen upsets her parents when she falls in love with a small-time drug dealer.

Cast

Eliza Scanlen

as Milla

Toby Wallace

as Moses

Essie Davis

as Anna

Ben Mendelsohn

as Henry

Eugene Gilfedder

as Gidon

Emily Barclay

as Toby

Andrea Demetriades

as Jenny

Charles Grounds

as Dean

Priscilla Doueihy

as Kathy

Jack Yabsley

as Government Spokesperson

Reviews

SWITCH.

Stories of adolescence are some of the hardest to tell on screen in new and interesting ways, and the added complexities of terminal illness and a morally questionable teen romance that 'Babyteeth' adds to this makes the film feel like a miracle in how well it pulls almost every element off. Its cas...

CinemaSerf

Her parents (Ben Mendelssohn and Essie Davis) aren’t best pleased when their terminally ill daughter “Milla” (Eliza Scanlen) hooks up with deadbeat “Moses” (Toby Wallace). She is smitten with this older lad, but their concerns would seem to be borne out when he is caught trying to steal from this fa...

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