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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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An engaging and marvelously acted romantic drama that is wonderfully unhurried and at peace with the incompleteness of our understandings of love and life.

Full Review Source: Spirituality and Practice | comment Comment
02/14/03
Frederic and Mary Ann Brussat
Frederic and Mary Ann Brussat
Spirituality and Practice

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

Mr. Green, with unabashed sincerity and exquisite tenderness, captures both the world-stopping intensity and the delicate absurdity of youthful longing.

Full Review Source: New York Times | comment Comment
02/13/03
A.O. Scott
A.O. Scott
New York Times
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Like the confused young people whose tumultuous emotions it details, David Gordon Green's All the Real Girls is exhilarating as well as a little bit frustrating to spend time with.

Full Review Source: Los Angeles Times | comment Comment
02/13/03
Kenneth Turan
Kenneth Turan
Los Angeles Times
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A sweet glimpse into young romance, delivered with...style, but, in the end, unsatisfyingly skimming the surface

Full Review Source: culturevulture.net | comment Comment
02/13/03
Arthur Lazere
Arthur Lazere
culturevulture.net

A revelation in its ability to capture how love really feels.

Full Review Source: Entertainment Weekly | comment Comment
02/12/03
Lisa Schwarzbaum
Lisa Schwarzbaum
Entertainment Weekly
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From a Southern perspective, the movie's a true breath of fresh air. For once, we're treated to Southern characters who aren't gun-totin' rednecks with exaggerated accents.

Full Review Source: Mountain Xpress (Asheville, NC) | comment Comment
02/12/03
Ken Hanke
Ken Hanke
Mountain Xpress (Asheville, NC)

This earnest love story is borderline insufferable, and yet there are moments that, in their bold incoherence, have a startling emotional truth.

Full Review Source: Village Voice | comment Comment
02/11/03
J. Hoberman
J. Hoberman
Village Voice
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A realistic portrayal of how first love resonates on its lucky people in a small southern town.

Full Review Source: Compuserve | comment Comment
02/10/03
Harvey S. Karten
Harvey S. Karten
Compuserve

You really feel like you're dropping in on these characters' lives.

Full Review Source: Ebert & Roeper | comment Comment
02/10/03
Richard Roeper
Richard Roeper
Ebert & Roeper
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Broadens the director’s rural visual beauty but also benefits from a sharper placement of his narrative shrapnel and his characters’ acute internal dilemmas.

Full Review Source: Slant Magazine | comment Comment
02/09/03
Chuck Rudolph
Chuck Rudolph
Slant Magazine

This then is David Gordon Green's cinema - messy, frustrating, and fascinating, an ever-growing process towards something unknown.

Full Review Source: ToxicUniverse.com | comment Comment
02/07/03
Keith Uhlich
Keith Uhlich
ToxicUniverse.com

A timeless portrait of two individuals' awkward, euphoric first encounter with love.

Full Review Source: Filmcritic.com | comment Comment
02/02/03
Nick Schager
Nick Schager
Filmcritic.com

The film brings you into its world and into the lives of its characters in such a way that spending time there a pleasure.

Full Review Source: EricDSnider.com | comment Comment
02/01/03
Eric D. Snider
Eric D. Snider
EricDSnider.com

An uneven work with a resonant central core.

Full Review Source: Variety | comment Comment
01/31/03
Todd McCarthy
Todd McCarthy
Variety
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His theme is first love -- a director-slayer if ever there was one -- yet Green makes it fresh, funny and infinitely sad as he uses this theme to open up characters to undiscovered realms within themselves.

Full Review Source: Hollywood Reporter | comment Comment
01/30/03
Kirk Honeycutt
Kirk Honeycutt
Hollywood Reporter
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Rather than tying together into a satisfying whole, the fragments seem to fly off in any number of directions, and a sweet, simple tale of young love dissolves into a mishmash.

Full Review Source: Film Threat | comment Comment
01/21/03
Tim Merrill
Tim Merrill
Film Threat
 
 
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