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.
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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...
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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 ...
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I didn't really know what to expect from this film but found it unexpectedly engaging and worth watching twice and then again with the director's ...
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A quote from Cars best describes how I felt watching this film
'I'm in Hillbilly Hell, and my IQ is dropping by the second'
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This film clearly isn't for everyone but I saw it at the cinema on release and was captivated. Seeing it again 6 years on it was just as astonishingly good ...
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