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David Gordon Green makes a stunning directorial debut with GEORGE WASHINGTON, a highly poetic drama that tells the story of the inhabitants of a small, impoverished southern American town. Focusing on a group of five adolescent friends--George (Donald Holden), Nasia (Candace Evanofski), Buddy (Curtis Cotton III), Vernon (Damian .. Read more

Starring	Curtis Cotton III, Candace Evanofski, Rachael Handy, Donald Holden
Director	David Gordon Green
Genres	Drama

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- "...The picture [is] bursting with talent from its young cast....Mr. Green has found a style that's defiantly his own....This may be the best-photographed film of the year..."
- 10249
- - New York Times
  - 11 Mar 2005 at 12:59
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  Heroes and villains
  
  This debut film from David Gordon Green is a slow, impressionistic one, with reverential – or fetishist - attention paid to the physical aspects of colour ... read more »
  
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  - 8 reviews
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  - 05 May 2004 at 23:16
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  Be kind re Washington
  
  Indie flick. Nice photography and an almost be kind rewind like vibe to it.
  
  Memorable cast and locations showing post industrial America and the ... read more »
  
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  - sassybadger
  - 7 reviews
  - 20 Sep 2011 at 21:39
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  george washington
  
  A good film, just like a good book, has to take me in very quickly. Time scale for a book is 30 pages. A film is 30 minutes. This film gave fantastic reviews... read more »
  
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  - scotland
  - 05 Feb 2010 at 20:07
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  best animated in the last ten years
  
  breathtaking in both scope and storytelling. a good story from beginning to end. Suitable for both kids and adults.
  
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  - 22 Jan 2010 at 14:53
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  George Washington
  
  yes not for everyone but a good cast and well worth taling a look at a good film.
  
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- - Declan6107
  - 138 reviews
  - Glasgow
  - 18 Jan 2010 at 20:53
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  A bit solemn
  
  This film may have looked good in a hushed art house cinema but it failed to rouse much interest in my living room. The acting looked contrived, in fact the ... read more »
  
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- - Zamy
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  - 23 Feb 2009 at 15:35
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  Good
  
  Movie with some thought
  
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  - 09 Nov 2008 at 21:35
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  An incredible debut
  
  Green's career subsequent to this film has been a little hit-and-miss, but, even if 'George Washington' were the only thing he were ever to have ... read more »
  
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- - Savage
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  - 18 Aug 2008 at 11:49
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  A sweet and well-acted tale
  
  This is a very well done film. There's nothing much to the story, so don't expect anything too groundbreaking; just enjoy it for what it is - a ... read more »
  
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- - TristanWhite
  - 307 reviews
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  - 07 Jan 2008 at 00:43
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  Stand By Me on Acid
  
  A slight premise is expanded into 85 minutes of beautifully-lit homespun philosophy, set against a backdrop of poverty and decay. The prosaic is made poetic in... read more »
  
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- - Simon Cockle
  - Biggleswade, Bedfordshire, England
  - 19 Apr 2006 at 23:08
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  George Washington (2000)
  
  A bit of a creepy film. Disturbing in the fact that all 3 kids were not found out and dealt with appropriately by the law.
  
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- - 9
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  Heroes and villains
  
  This debut film from David Gordon Green is a slow, impressionistic one, with reverential – or fetishist - attention paid to the physical aspects of colour ... read more »
  
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  - Mint400
  - 8 reviews
  - London
  - 05 May 2004 at 23:16
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  Nearly very good
  
  The story centres around a fragment of the life of an introspective 13 year old boy, George, and his involvement in the accidental death of one of his friends. ... read more »
  
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- - Jegsy
  - 15 reviews
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  - 16 Aug 2004 at 22:36
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  Not for everyone
  
  The lack of a distinct narrative and the improvised style of dialogue will not be too everybody's tastes. Whilst there is lack of a plot as such it's ... read more »
  
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  - 11 Sep 2004 at 09:26
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  Nice film
  
  If you like slow moody stuff with ever so subtle humour with a sprinkling of ambiguity, you'll like this.
  
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- - dadada
  - 14 reviews
  - scotland
  - 12 Feb 2005 at 20:51
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  Stand By Me on Acid
  
  A slight premise is expanded into 85 minutes of beautifully-lit homespun philosophy, set against a backdrop of poverty and decay. The prosaic is made poetic in... read more »
  
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- - Simon Cockle
  - Biggleswade, Bedfordshire, England
  - 19 Apr 2006 at 23:08
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  Sweltering
  
  George Washington is about several kids in their early teens, one summer in Carolina.
  
  It doesn't have that much of a linear story line, ... read more »
  
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- - EleanorS
  - Midlothian
  - 28 Apr 2004 at 19:37
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  - 4
  I cannot tell a lie...
  
  After being bowled over by All the Real Girls, I felt compelled to give David Gordon Green's first feature another try. I remembered disliking it, but the ... read more »
  
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- - Cunno
  - London
  - 28 Apr 2004 at 21:27
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  Beautiful
  
  I was a big fan of 'All The Real Girls', Green's first feature. He has a special talent for finding beauty and poetry in the mundane.
  
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- - Ricky2
  - Antrim
  - 26 Aug 2004 at 12:39
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  A sweet and well-acted tale
  
  This is a very well done film. There's nothing much to the story, so don't expect anything too groundbreaking; just enjoy it for what it is - a ... read more »
  
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- - TristanWhite
  - 307 reviews
  - London, UK
  - 07 Jan 2008 at 00:43
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  An incredible debut
  
  Green's career subsequent to this film has been a little hit-and-miss, but, even if 'George Washington' were the only thing he were ever to have ... read more »
  
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- - Savage
  - 632 reviews
  - London, England
  - 18 Aug 2008 at 11:49

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Critics' reviews
- "...The picture [is] bursting with talent from its young cast....Mr. Green has found a style that's defiantly his own....This may be the best-photographed film of the year..."
- 10249
- - New York Times
  - 11 Mar 2005 at 12:59
- A little like Gummo re-imagined by Terrence Malick, Green's extraordinary debut feature is a film without a centre.... read more on Time Out
- 44855
- - Time Out
  - 04 Nov 2008 at 00:15
- "...As poetry is to prose, so is this movie to most other current offerings..."
- 10247
- - Box Office
  - 11 Mar 2005 at 12:59
- "...Beautifully filmed....Green is feeling his way into tender territory..."
- 10248
- - Film Comment
  - 11 Mar 2005 at 12:59
- "...Fresh, poetic, tender, utterly individual and richly atmospheric..."
- 10250
- - Sight and Sound
  - 11 Mar 2005 at 12:59

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  David Gordon Green makes a stunning directorial debut with GEORGE WASHINGTON, a highly poetic drama that tells the story of the inhabitants of a small, impoverished southern American town. Focusing on a group of five adolescent friends--George (Donald Holden), Nasia (Candace Evanofski), Buddy (...