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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.
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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Reviews for All the Real Girls
The performances are convincing, and sufficiently nuanced to elevate the characters beyond mere cliché.
A sweet glimpse into young romance, delivered with...style, but, in the end, unsatisfyingly skimming the surface
A letdown for those who were hoping for so much after George Washington.
Girls has small and simple charms, but the movie succumbs to the combined weight of its preoccupations with non-hurried, 'honest' interactions and general open-endedness.
Director David Gordon Green knows more about how to capture a striking image on screen than telling a compelling story.
The main characters are unremarkable, and most of the acting is dull.
Much of the film, which so much wants to seem natural and unforced, comes off as contrived and slightly precious.
A picture of fits and starts, sometimes touching and occasionally insightful, but overall quite artificial and affected.
I like quiet lyricism as much as the next guy, but All the Real Girls gives it a bad name.
This earnest love story is borderline insufferable, and yet there are moments that, in their bold incoherence, have a startling emotional truth.
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