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All the Real Girls (2003)

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Reviews Counted: 110

Fresh: 78

Rotten:32

Average Rating: 6.9/10

Consensus: Has enough honest moments to warrant a look.

Rated: R [See Full Rating] for language and some sexuality

Runtime: 1 hr 48 mins

Genre: Dramas

Theatrical Release:Feb 14, 2003 Limited

Box Office: $141,311

Synopsis: ALL THE REAL GIRLS is set in a small mill town that gets smaller and more run down with each passing year. Paul (Paul Schneider) has lived here all his life, never been out of the county. It's... ALL THE REAL GIRLS is set in a small mill town that gets smaller and more run down with each passing year. Paul (Paul Schneider) has lived here all his life, never been out of the county. It's never really occurred to him. He lives a cozy, affectionate life with his mom, Elvira (Patricia Clarkson) and he works as a grease monkey for his uncle Leland (Benjamin Mouton). Charming in his way, he has a devoted circle of rowdy friends that he's known for ever -- Tip (Shea Whigham), the richest and most lawless of the bunch; Bo (Maurice Compte), a philosopher not interested in wasting his precious seed on the local girls; and Bust-Ass (Danny McBride), a goofball who is not the sharpest tool in the shed. It's a place of rednecks, mill hands, beer-slugging pontificators and fallen southern belles. Paul's life changes when he finds Tip's younger sister Noel, (Zooey Deschanel), who has just graduated from boarding school and returned to town. She catches the eye of Paul, who has never met anyone like her. And she's never met anyone quite like him -- funny and quirky and unpretentious. They fall in love -- a scary, uncomfortable love, with no precedents for either of them. Although he's had more than his share of romantic experiences, he has never felt anything like this. He's elated and terrified at the same time. And for Noel, this seems like the real thing, not that she knows what she's supposed to do next. For all her worldliness, and his previous conquests, they sometimes act like two kids playing at grown-up love. As the Winter progresses, things go very right, and sometimes wrong. -- © Sony Pictures Classics [More]

Starring: Paul Schneider, Zooey Deschanel, Patricia Clarkson, Shea Whigham

Starring: Paul Schneider, Zooey Deschanel, Patricia Clarkson, Shea Whigham, Danny McBride, Benjamin Mouton

Director: David Gordon Green

Director: David Gordon Green
Screenwriter: David Gordon Green
Story: Paul Schneider, David Gordon Green
Producer: Jean Doumanain, Lisa Muskat
Composer: David Wingo, Michael Linnen
Studio: Sony Pictures Classics

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08/07/08
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12/30/06
Empire Magazine

All Gordon Green can manage are...dreamy images, blunt-edged characters and dialogue, splattered like so-much Cheese Whiz over a shapeless mess of a pseudo-poetic narrative.

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08/18/06
Jay Antani
Cinema Writer

Love can be a good thing. It can just as easily be horrible. David Gordon Green's poetic All the Real Girls captures both senses of love - and beautifully to boot.

Full Review Source: Movie Views | comment Comment
07/24/06
Ryan Cracknell
Movie Views
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06/24/06
Geoff Andrew
Time Out

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12/06/05
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Full Review Source: Apollo Guide | comment Comment
03/16/04
Apollo Guide

Captures the almost narcotic sensation of new love...

Full Review Source: Commercial Appeal (Memphis, TN) | comment Comment
12/05/03
John Beifuss
Commercial Appeal (Memphis, TN)

Obriga o público a passar duas horas ao lado de pessoas absolutamente desinteressantes.

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11/01/03
Pablo Villaca
Cinema em Cena

The performances are convincing, and sufficiently nuanced to elevate the characters beyond mere cliché.

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10/28/03
Anton Bitel
Movie Gazette

Zooey Deschanel, in her first starring role, barely saves this film from the murky bogs of independent dreck.

Full Review Source: About.com | comment Comment
10/14/03
Marcy Dermansky
About.com

“All the Real Girls” captures young love as well as any movie ever has.

Full Review Source: Reno Gazette-Journal | comment Comment
09/18/03
Mark Robison
Reno Gazette-Journal

Its sensibility is almost anachronistic; I'm not sure there's a cynical moment in its 108-minute running time.

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09/14/03
Bryant Frazer
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09/03/03
Sight and Sound
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Full Review Source: Guardian [UK] | comment Comment
08/05/03
Guardian [UK]

There are several moments so sublime, so ineffably and serenely beautiful, that you might be convinced that this sort of relationship could only happen in a dream.

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08/05/03
Dan Jardine
Apollo Guide

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07/30/03
Matthew Turner
ViewLondon

A lot of the dialogue is funny and dumb and sometimes insightful, but there are also moments when something rings so false it feels you're watching an artfully directed episode of Dawson's Creek.

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07/25/03
Jeffrey Bruner
Des Moines Register

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07/16/03
Nev Pierce
BBC

The story takes place in the real world, but the real world as it feels when you’re in love or when you watch a great film like, say, this one.

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06/10/03
Kevin N. Laforest
Montreal Film Journal
 
 
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