Dirty Girl (2011)
Average Rating: 4.9/10
Reviews Counted: 37
Fresh: 10 | Rotten: 27
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Average Rating: 4.6/10
Critic Reviews: 18
Fresh: 2 | Rotten: 16
No consensus yet.
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Average Rating: 3.3/5
User Ratings: 8,060
Movie Info
Dirty Girl is the story of Danielle (Juno Temple), the dirty girl of Norman High School in Norman, Oklahoma, circa 1987. When Danielle's misbehavior gets her banished to a remedial class, she is paired on a parenting project with Clarke (Jeremy Dozier), an innocent closet-case with no friends. Danielle is determined to get to California to find the father she's never met, and Clarke is desperate to escape being sent to military school by his homophobic dad. Together, the mismatched misfits light
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Cast
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Juno Temple
Danielle -
Jeremy Dozier
Clarke -
Milla Jovovich
Sue-Ann -
William H. Macy
Ray -
Mary Steenburgen
Peggy -
Dwight Yoakam
Joseph -
Zach Lasry
Brad -
Marcella Lentz-Pope
Tonya -
William Horwich
Tim -
Natalie Amenula
Benita -
David Petruzzi
Bobby -
Vivian Smallwood
Shellie the Neighbor -
Reiley McClendon
Mike -
Nicholas D'Agosto
Joel -
Nate Hartley
Charlie -
Tim McGraw
Danny, Danny Briggs -
Jack Kehler
Dr. Shelby -
Madison Meyer
Mindy -
Deborah Theaker
Mrs. Hatcher -
Rob Boltin
Peter -
Brent Briscoe
Officer Perry -
Jonathan Slavin
Mr. Potter -
Brian Baumgartner
Concierge -
Jim Cody Williams
Big Biker Dude -
Gary Grubbs
Principal Mulray -
Pat Healy
Billy -
Frank Clem
Gas Station Attendant -
Grady Lee Richmond
Strip Club Manager -
Andrew Ableson
Jade -
Jernard Burks
Bus Driver -
P.D. Mani
Taxi Driver -
Maeve Quinlan
Janet -
Elsie Fisher
Tiffany -
Juliane Godfrey
Perpetual Motion -
Alexandra Harding
Perpetual Motion -
Miriam McSpadden
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Alexandra Nicandros
Perpetual Motion -
Carolyn Oler
Perpetual Motion -
Brittni Ping
Perpetual Motion -
Marylin Sohlberg
Perpetual Motion -
Katrina Williams
Perpetual Motion -
Melissa Manchester
Piano Playing Teacher -
Sandy Holt
Additional Voice -
Chris Compton
Additional Voice -
John Gidcomb
Additional Voice -
Nicholas Rutherford
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Mark Sussman
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Talula Holt
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Hope Levy
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Susan Leslie
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All Critics (37) | Top Critics (18) | Fresh (10) | Rotten (27) | DVD (5)
Dirty Girl isn't. Sorry, but it's just faux grime, a thin layer of bad behaviour that wipes clean with a two-ply tissue to reveal the real movie beneath - all shiny sentimentality.
Top CriticDirty Girl broadcasts its intent to be edgy and subversive - poking fun throughout at small-town, conservative attitudes toward sex and morality - without ever achieving subversion.
The movie is all over the place, searching for an identity that proves almost entirely elusive.
If your sensibility is pure trashy camp, don't expect anyone not to laugh when you try to be earnest.
One can appreciate an artistic effort without actually endorsing it, which may be the most generous approach to Abe Sylvia's frustratingly uneven debut.
Undoubtedly this movie means something to its director and screenwriter - a former dancer making his feature-film debut. So why didn't he put more care into the period?
Dirty Girl is an off beat gem that's well worth the bidding war it inspired at the 2010 Toronto International Film Festival.
...l feels like a Hollywood vision of the way the ignorant and unwashed comport themselves. It feels ugly and it made me sad.
A funny, poignant if slightly uneven coming-of-age story.
The film rolls downhill to Serious Town when Danielle finds her father, and although the performers are equipped to handle it, it gets more heavy-handed as it winds to a close.
if you can't quite get behind a defiant diva and her queer companion, you'll find every moment of this motion picture a chore
[VIDEO] "Dirty Girl" is such an inept attempt at abstinence propaganda that it should have the opposite effect on teen girls chomping at the bit.
Enjoyable to a fault, Dirty Girl struggles at times with tone, unable to find an effective balance between scenes that border on farce and those with weightier themes.
It'd be hard to conceive of a movie more painstakingly comprised of dramatic filler.
There's one scene in the film, keyed to the heartbreak anthem "Don't Cry Out Loud," that struck me as rocketing over the top and into the glitter stratosphere. I got over it, though.
Dirty Girl is much more fun when Danielle is behaving badly. Unfortunately, that only lasts about 20 minutes, and as soon as she befriends Clarke -- an unlikely situation in itself -- the fun ends.
This is an undeniably clumsy film, but a good heart beats inside its chest and that counts for something.
With luck, Temple will be able to get this movie expunged from her filmography, like a juvenile offense that is wiped from one's record when she comes of age.
Audience Reviews for Dirty Girl
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- Danielle: Remember: nobody likes a dirty girl.
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- Danielle: Don't worry about being nice to my mom. She's a total poon.
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- Danielle: Dear diary, daddy had to leave as daddy's sometimes do, he left so the dreams of our families could come true, but mommy will soldier on, cause thats what mommy's do.
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- Ray: We don't want you cast into outer darkness.
- Danielle: How's that different from any other day?
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- Danielle: Sometimes you gotta accept what life throws at you, to find out what your made of.
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- Danielle: If it's a man's world? God wouldn't have made me.
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About every road trip cliche is combined with every gay best friend cliche is combined with every estranged teenager cliche. There's nothing original about this film's plot or execution. As tepid as it is, it doesn't offend one's sensibilities with cliche-piling, but that's about the best that can be said of it.
Juno Temple is charming and sometimes funny (even if her accent is nothing like what I heard in Norman), and Jeremy Dozier gives a strong performance in his film debut.
Overall, Dirty Girl is pretty boring, but it's pro-gay, post-sexual revolution sensibilities made me not mind it as much as I should have.