[It] captures contemporary teenage life with an observance rarely seen in movies, but its director Luke Greenfield doesn’t know where to take that sincerity.
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The Girl Next Door (2004)
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Reviews Counted:152
Fresh:84
Rotten:68
Average Rating:5.5/10
Consensus: The movie borrows heavily from Risky Business, though Hirsch and Cuthbert are appealing leads.
Theatrical Release:Apr 9, 2004 Wide
Box Office: $14,544,008
Synopsis: In the tradition of RISKY BUSINESS and AMERICAN PIE comes THE GIRL NEXT DOOR, a sex-soaked teen comedy that actually has a heart. High school graduation is nearing for senior class president Matt... [More]
Starring: Emile Hirsch, Elisha Cuthbert, Timothy Olyphant, James Remar
Director: Luke Greenfield
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Reviews for The Girl Next Door
Where the adults are consistently inept, ignorant, or dishonest, the kids are canny entrepreneurs.
04/08/04
Despite the cynical cleverness and slick direction by Luke Greenfield, (it) favors giggly juvenile humor over inspired satire and ends up not with a moral, but a moral vacuum.
04/08/04
Risky Business holds truer a little more each year and needs no facelift. The Girl Next Door is a damn good makeup job though.
04/08/04
If you're going to ripoff another film, make sure it's one that the public liked...like Risky Business or Sixteen Candles.
04/08/04
If you think the idea of taking a porn star to your prom is funny (and I plead guilty), here's your movie.
04/08/04
Top CriticEmile Hirsch has the perfect stricken alertness, and Greenfield has a marvelous joker up his sleeve in Timothy Olyphant as Kelly, Danielle's quasi-pimp.
04/08/04
Endearing, funny and surprisingly satisfying, at least until it begins to self-destruct toward the end.
04/08/04
What is disturbing and frankly distasteful about The Girl Next Door is how slick and shameless it is in its eagerness to blur boundaries, to squeeze as much transgressive material as it can into a nominally bland and innocent form.
04/08/04
Top CriticWe're a world away here from the crass (if not unenjoyable) slapstick antics of the American Pie series and closer to a sensitivity and nostalgia for all things awkwardly adolescent reminiscent of Cameron Crowe.
04/08/04
an unexpected surprise, a teen sex comedy that turns out to have heart and smarts
04/08/04
A lumpy blend of sweet teen romance and naughty, R-rated prurience, this comedy follows the improbable relationship between a high school senior and a former porn star.
04/08/04
Top CriticIt says a lot that while I spent the entire running time staring at Elisha Cuthbert, I still noticed an amazing performance by Emile Hirsch.
04/08/04
In the most cynical manner, this movie smugly attempts to have it both ways. The ultimate conclusion is all the more smarmy for trying not to be.
04/08/04
The plot is carelessly cobbled from dozens of previous teen flicks, with needless episodes added as space fillers.
04/08/04
Top CriticThe whole thing is cheerfully engaging, thanks to inspired direction by Luke Greenfield.
04/08/04
Top CriticGimmicky and predictable.
04/08/04
The Girl Next Door is to Risky Business what near-beer is to beer.
04/08/04
As horny and undisciplined as a 16-year-old, and it's as formulaic as geometry, but it's entertaining anyway because it takes that formula and executes it about as well as it can be executed.
04/08/04
So, could we have a new generation of teen comedy Brat Packers? Sure. But writing and directing a la Hughes (or even Risky Business) is nowhere in sight.
04/08/04
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