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All the Real Girls (2003)

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Reviews Counted:28

Fresh:22

Rotten:6

Average Rating:6.8/10

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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Much of the film, which so much wants to seem natural and unforced, comes off as contrived and slightly precious.

Full Review Source: Atlanta Journal-Constitution | comment Comment
04/10/03
Eleanor Ringel Gillespie
Eleanor Ringel Gillespie
Atlanta Journal-Constitution
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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.

Full Review Source: Denver Rocky Mountain News | comment Comment
04/04/03
Robert Denerstein
Robert Denerstein
Denver Rocky Mountain News
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A love story for those who cannot tolerate the phoniness of Hollywood romance movies, one that deftly avoids melodrama and manipulation in favor of raw emotion.

Full Review Source: Dallas Morning News | comment Comment
04/03/03
Gary Dowell
Gary Dowell
Dallas Morning News
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It's about people who have no idea what to say, how to say it, what it means, where it leads: They just blunder through, clumsy and hopeful and tongue-tied and so human it breaks your heart.

Full Review Source: Washington Post | comment Comment
03/28/03
Stephen Hunter
Stephen Hunter
Washington Post
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After a while, you feel like you're watching natural interactions rather than a scripted performance.

Full Review Source: Arizona Republic | comment Comment
03/28/03
Bill Muller
Bill Muller
Arizona Republic
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It's a movie of deft impressions and telling human moments.

Full Review Source: Washington Post | comment Comment
03/28/03
Desson Thomson
Desson Thomson
Washington Post
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It's a beautifully realized and assured work packed with the kind of raw emotions that rarely make it to the screen.

Full Review Source: Detroit Free Press | comment Comment
03/27/03
John Monaghan
John Monaghan
Detroit Free Press
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A smartly acted, achingly simple love story.

Full Review Source: Philadelphia Inquirer | comment Comment
03/27/03
Steven Rea
Steven Rea
Philadelphia Inquirer
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An anti-Hollywood romance; a tonic for all those weary of the usual cinematic overglamorization of love.

Full Review Source: ReelViews | comment Comment
03/23/03
James Berardinelli
James Berardinelli
ReelViews
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Green confirms his status as the most atmospherically distinctive American movie director since Paul Thomas Anderson.

Full Review Source: Toronto Star | comment Comment
03/21/03
Geoff Pevere
Geoff Pevere
Toronto Star
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It's a love story stripped of trite narrative conventions and made to feel searingly honest.

Full Review Source: Globe and Mail | comment Comment
03/21/03
Rick Groen
Rick Groen
Globe and Mail
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Green recycles hoary clichés by poeticizing them and setting them in a kind of timeless present.

Full Review Source: New York Magazine | comment Comment
03/02/03
Peter Rainer
Peter Rainer
New York Magazine
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A movie that eliminates Hollywood gloss and pop cliches -- and in their place offers an honest look at young love and its pitfalls.

Full Review Source: San Francisco Chronicle | comment Comment
02/28/03
Edward Guthmann
Edward Guthmann
San Francisco Chronicle
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Miraculously, Deschanel makes Noel the real girl that both Paul and the movie very much need.

Full Review Source: Boston Globe | comment Comment
02/28/03
Ty Burr
Ty Burr
Boston Globe
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Green is 27, old enough to be jaded, but he has the soul of a romantic poet.

Full Review Source: Chicago Sun-Times | comment Comment
02/28/03
Roger Ebert
Roger Ebert
Chicago Sun-Times
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A small movie about big emotions, with Green capturing the rush of love and sting of heartbreak with great vividness.

Full Review Source: Chicago Tribune | comment Comment
02/27/03
Mark Caro
Mark Caro
Chicago Tribune
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Green seems more in love with his perceived unconventionality than he does with his characters.

Full Review Source: Salon.com | comment Comment
02/21/03
Stephanie Zacharek
Stephanie Zacharek
Salon.com
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Girls isn't fabulous, but you do feel its characters really have connected.

Full Review Source: USA Today | comment Comment
02/14/03
Mike Clark
Mike Clark
USA Today
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Paul Schneider, a buoyant young newcomer from North Carolina, is the No. 1 reason to see David Gordon Green's All the Real Girls.

Full Review Source: Newsday | comment Comment
02/14/03
Jan Stuart
Jan Stuart
Newsday
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One of the few films to honestly nail the awkwardness and ardor of young romance.

Full Review Source: New York Post | comment Comment
02/14/03
Megan Lehmann
Megan Lehmann
New York Post
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