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All the Real Girls
DVD cover
Directed byDavid Gordon Green
Screenplay byDavid Gordon Green
Story byDavid Gordon Green
Paul Schneider
Produced byJean Doumanian
Lisa Muskat
StarringPatricia Clarkson
Zooey Deschanel
Paul Schneider
CinematographyTim Orr
Edited byZene Baker
Steven Gonzales
Music byMichael Linnen
David Wingo
Distributed bySony Pictures Classics
Release dates
  • January 19, 2003 (2003-01-19) (Sundance)
  • February 14, 2003 (2003-02-14) (United States)
(limited)
Running time
108 minutes
CountryUnited States
LanguageEnglish
Budget$1 million (estimated)[1][2]
Box office$579,986[3]

All the Real Girls is a 2003 American romantic drama film written and directed by David Gordon Green and starring Paul Schneider, Zooey Deschanel, Shea Whigham and Patricia Clarkson. It is about the romance between a young, small-town womanizer and his best friend’s sexually inexperienced younger sister. The film premiered at the Sundance Film Festival on January 19, 2003. The film was well received by critics and was nominated for several film festival awards, with Green winning a Special Jury Prize at Sundance.

Plot

A young womanizer living in a small Southern town, Paul earns a living fixing cars for his uncle. He still lives with his mother, Elvira, who works as a clown cheering up children at the local hospital.

Paul spends most of his time hanging out with his best friend and self-proclaimed partner-in-crime, Tip, and their friends Bo and Bust-Ass. Among his friends, Paul has a reputation as a ladies' man, but is not at all known for being involved with long-term relationships; most of his romances last only a few weeks, and he's slept with nearly every girl in town.

Beginning to reach a point where he would like to lead a different life, this feeling becomes much clearer when Paul meets Noel. She is Tip's teenage sister, who has returned home after attending boarding school. Noel is more thoughtful and mature than the girls Paul is used to.

Paul and Noel soon fall in love, but for him this is a different sort of relationship than he's accustomed to — Noel is still a virgin, and her contemplative nature gives him a desire to be a better, stronger person,

Tip does not approve of Paul dating his younger sister, which leads to a rift between these longtime friends.

Cast

Reception

Box office

All the Real Girls was given a limited release on February 14, 2003. It played in six theaters, bringing in $39,714 in its opening weekend. It grossed $579,986 on a $1 million budget.[3]

Critical response

The film received positive reviews. On Rotten Tomatoes, it has an approval rating of 71%, based on 115 reviews, with an average rating of 6.9/10. The site's consensus states, "Has enough honest moments to warrant a look."[4] On Metacritic, it has a score of 71 out of 100, based on 36 critics, indicating "generally favorable reviews".[5]

Roger Ebert of the Chicago Sun Times said “Green is 27, old enough to be jaded, but he has the soul of a romantic poet. Wordsworth, after all, was 36 when he published, ‘The Rainbow comes and goes and lovely as the Rose.’ How many guys that age would have that kind of nerve today?” He gave the film a four out of four star rating.[6]

Awards and nominations

The film was nominated for awards at several different film festivals globally. Green was nominated for the Grand Jury Prize at the Sundance Film Festival, and ended up winning the Special Jury Prize as did Patricia Clarkson for Outstanding Performance.[1] Zooey Deschanel was nominated for Best Female Lead at the 2004 Independent Spirit Awards[7] and Best Actress at the 2004 Mar del Plata Film Festival.[8]

References

  1. ^ a b "WNC-Filmed "All the Real Girls" at Fine Arts Theater This Week". Asheville.com. Retrieved July 9, 2020.
  2. ^ "All the Real Girls (2003) - Financial info". The Numbers. Retrieved 8 October 2022.
  3. ^ a b "All the Real Girls (2003)". Box Office Mojo.
  4. ^ "All the Real Girls". Rotten Tomatoes.
  5. ^ "All the Real Girls Reviews". Metacritic.
  6. ^ Ebert, Roger (February 28, 2003). "All the Real Girls movie review (2003)". Rogerebert.com. Retrieved July 20, 2022.
  7. ^ Susman, Gary (December 3, 2003). "Here are the Independent Spirit Award nominees". Entertainment Weekly. Retrieved July 9, 2020.
  8. ^ Newberry, Charles (March 17, 2003). "'Valentin' stirs controversy at Mar del Plata". Variety. Retrieved July 9, 2020.
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