Review of I Think We're Alone Now (2008) by Spencer S — 12 Mar 2013

Very under-budgeted and certainly not big enough to be a full documentary, Sean Donnelly's efforts only reveal the first of many layers to two intricate stories. The film is promoted to be about 80s pop star Tiffany, who had two minor hits while playing for packed malls, one of which was Tommy James and the Shondells' "I Think We're Alone Now.

" Using this song title as a gratuitous first step, the film follows two of Tiffany's biggest fans, a fiftysomething Asperger's patient named Jeff, and an intersexed individual named Kelly.

The film doesn't focus on the timeline of Tiffany nor Tiffany herself, and even more impressively doesn't speak much about her fan base. What you do get are two stories about two obviously delusional individuals.

Jeff knows his behavior is off-putting and at times illegal, but he simply smiles it away like it's an offensive joke. Kelly is beyond confused about so much in her life and her devotion to the pop idol is somewhere between attraction and god worship.

Kelly is the most delusional because she talks herself into a grand romance with Tiffany without having ever met her, and yet when she does she can't handle Jeff's equally ambitious and haphazard love for Tiffany either.

It doesn't flow correctly, doesn't mesh the storylines in a cohesive blend, rather pushing the pair together without much thought. The entire film reads like a long episode of a TLC reality show and that's probably what this truly deserved to be.