All the Real Girls (2003)
Average Rating: 6.9/10
Reviews Counted: 110
Fresh: 78 | Rotten: 32
Has enough honest moments to warrant a look.
Average Rating: 6.8/10
Critic Reviews: 31
Fresh: 24 | Rotten: 7
Has enough honest moments to warrant a look.
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Average Rating: 3.8/5
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David Gordon Green, who in 2000 made a splash on the festival circuit with his independent debut feature, George Washington, directed this drama about two people entering into a mature romantic relationship -- the sort that neither has been accustomed to. Paul (Paul Schneider) is a guy in his mid-'20s who lives in a small Southern town, where he earn a living fixing cars for his uncle. A man with little in the way of ambition, Paul still lives with his mother, Elvira (Patricia Clarkson), and
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Paul Schneider
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Zooey Deschanel
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Shea Whigham
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Patricia Clarkson
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All Critics (119) | Top Critics (32) | Fresh (80) | Rotten (32) | DVD (14)
Undisciplined, unfocused, overimprovised and unevenly acted.
Top CriticThe characters just sit there and talk, and you start to feel you're trapped not at a movie but in a tiny diner somewhere, eavesdropping on a lot of uninteresting conversations.
A wise, delicate and immensely touching romance.
Much of the film, which so much wants to seem natural and unforced, comes off as contrived and slightly precious.
The characters in All the Real Girls can seem a little thin ... but the emotions always feel genuine.
There's something missing from this slowly paced story of young love, like a painting that's still waiting for its subject to be dropped in.
A poetic, powerful work.
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.
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.
Captures the almost narcotic sensation of new love...
Obriga o público a passar duas horas ao lado de pessoas absolutamente desinteressantes.
The performances are convincing, and sufficiently nuanced to elevate the characters beyond mere cliché.
Zooey Deschanel, in her first starring role, barely saves this film from the murky bogs of independent dreck.
"All the Real Girls" captures young love as well as any movie ever has.
Its sensibility is almost anachronistic; I'm not sure there's a cynical moment in its 108-minute running time.
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.
Audience Reviews for All the Real Girls
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- Noel: I wish I didn't hurt with every thought of you.
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- Noel: Last night, I had a dream that you planted a garden on a trampoline and I was so happy that I invented peanut butter.
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Paul Schneider delivers a sensitive portrayal of Paul, and his romantic scenes with Zooey Deschanel are quite charming. What I liked about the film was how relateable that relationship was.
Typical of indie films, All the Real Girls is filled with long pauses and understated scenes that fail to state much. I also have several plot questions. I have no idea why Noel chooses the person she chooses in the third act, and because we never see Paul being a rake and he never goes back to his old behavior, it's hard to believe all the rumors about his character flaws.
Overall, I think I like this film more than it deserves mainly because the two leads seemed like people I know or could know.