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All The Real Girls Details

2003 Certificate 15
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David Gordon Green directs ALL THE REAL GIRLS, an achingly sincere drama that captures the complexities of first love--and loss--with breathtaking honesty. Paul (Paul Schneider), a small town charmer, has spent his life living it up with his buddies Tip (Shea Whigham), Bo (Maurice Compte), and Bust-Ass (a scene-stealing Danny .. Read more

Starring Patricia Clarkson, Zooey Deschanel, Paul Schneider
Director David Gordon Green
Genres Drama, Romance

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All The Real Girls

David Gordon Green directs ALL THE REAL GIRLS, an achingly sincere drama that captures the complexities of first love--and loss--with breathtaking honesty. Paul (Paul Schneider), a small town charmer, has spent his life living it up with his buddies Tip (Shea Whigham), Bo (Maurice Compte), and Bust-Ass (a scene-stealing Danny McBride), in addition to sleeping with every girl in town. But when Tip's virginal younger sister, Noel (Zooey Deschanel), returns from boarding school, Paul's priorities change completely. Discovering love for the first time, Paul spurns his lecherous past and declares himself a new man. No more booze, no more two-timing. But just when he thinks he's found redemption, something happens that shatters him to his core.
Like his celebrated debut, GEORGE WASHINGTON, Green's second film unfolds like a nostalgic dream. Haunting, tender, and beautifully photographed by Tim Orr, ALL THE REAL GIRLS is destined to become a classic in the romantic genre. Its success is due in large part to leads Schneider and Deschanel, who deliver performances that are chilling in their nakedness.

Starring Patricia Clarkson, Zooey Deschanel, Paul Schneider
Director David Gordon Green
Studio SONY PICTURES HOME ENTERTAINMENT
Run time DVD: 1 hr 30 mins
Certificate Certificate 15
Genres Drama, Romance
Language DVD: English
Subtitles DVD: French, Portuguese, Spanish
Released DVD: 16 Feb 2004
Production year: 2003
Format DVD
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  • 3 stars out of 5

    A thoughtful, well acted movie carried along by emotions rather than plot (in other words, nothing much happens), this small-town study of love and friendship has the potential to either beguile or bore audiences. Writer/director David Gordon Green (whose first film was the accomplished drama George Washington) certainly captures the awkwardness and insecurity of a fledgeling romance, gaining naturalistic honesty from local stud Paul Schneider and his friend's virginal young sister, Zooey Deschanel. Green is adept at writing dialogue that seems to spring from their hearts, but there's a significant twist in their relationship that feels out of character and contrived mainly for emotional upheaval. The film certainly has mood, courtesy of some lyrical North Carolina landscape photography and an evocative soundtrack, yet the impression lingers of a movie that thinks a little too highly of itself.

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  • Paul (Schneider) is quite the ladies' man, except that he's running out of ladies in the small North Carolina milltown... read more on Time Out

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  • 25 out of 27 people found this review helpful

    Rated - 5 stars

    all the real relationships

    This is a film for anyone who's ever been in love. Really in love, in real life. It's not romamtic, it's not soppy, it's the real deal, how it actually is. There is a boy-girl relationship as the central theme, but there are 'cameo-relationships' as well; mother-son, widowed father-daughter, guy best friends, and they are all wonderfully fresh, moving and realistic. This film made me realise how extraordinary ordinary people are. It's great!

      • A customer from Wales
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  • 2 out of 2 people found this review helpful

    Rated - 5 stars

    Stick With It

    Beautiful film, I can't recommend this highly enough. The pace is slow but I became so involved with the flawed but likeable characters my attention never woundered and by the end felt rewarded. If you liked Independence Day don't bother.

      • A customer from Exeter
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