All the Real Girls

All the Real Girls This is possibly the most accurate film about coming of age in small town America. It does this two ways first as other reviewers have noted the cast in the film portrays a realistic group of... Full review

In a small town, Paul (Paul Schneider) and Tip (Shea Whigham) are best friends, and Paul is the great seducer, having shagged twenty-six girls in the town. When Tip's sister Noel (Zooey Deschanel) and Paul date and fall in love... Full review

... It captures perfectly the awkwardness of really loving somebody, but not being sure how to take it a stage further without destroying what's been built up. As a viewer, you'll most likely believe in the central relationship and not... Full review

Spoilers herein.Warning, if you watch this on DVD, avoid the commentary at all costs. This is a case where the creators are inarticulate nitwits, but what they have created has a particularly intelligent design.Superficially, this is the simple formula: boy... Full review

I knew that "All the Real Girls" was going to receive a pretty intense amount of backlash for its sparseness, but damn if there aren't some pretty hostile remarks here, (haha). Can't say that I blame people for dissing it... Full review

A perfect movie to watch if you're in the mood to just chill out and watch the sunset but it's already dark. It offers the meditative sensation of Baraka combined with a nearly pitch perfect portrayal of a small town... Full review

Low budget and low tech, director David Gordon Green's "All the Real Girls" first struck viewer nerves at Sundance and it will do so everywhere.Set in Appalachia with shots of the beautiful mountains juxtaposed with a town that never knew... Full review

"All the Real Girls" is a beautiful effort by writer/director David Gordon Green to visualize inarticulate people as they struggle with love.The scenic North Carolina landscape surrounds the characters as they seek, unsuccessfully, for comparable inner beauty with romance and... Full review

I went into this movie with absolutley no expectations, and it seems I was better off than a lot of people who reviewed it negatively. This is by far one of the best, most realistic romance films (or films in... Full review

World premiere at SUNDANCE 2003. Has a distributor (Sony) and will be in limited release on February 14OFFICIAL PLOT SUMMARY: Twenty-two-year-old Paul lives with his beloved mom and works as a grease monkey in a broken down North Carolina mill... Full review

And yet, in writer/director David Gordon Green's elegant film, they all have souls, too, ultimately capable of expressing great emotion even if the physical manifestion of it is punching out a car window. At the forefront is Paul and Noel's courtship, played with natural, sweet awkwardness by Schneider and Deschanel. ... Full Review

Now Green is back with All the Real Girls , and like most sophomore efforts after such a stunning debut, it disappoints slightly. But only because it cuts back in scale and tries to tell a much smaller, much more ordinary story. ... Full Review

Visually, the movie is interesting. The key actors -- primarily Schneider, Deschanel and Patricia Clarkson -- are uniformly excellent, selfless in their devotion to the nuances of their characters. ... Full Review

The movie is particularly effective at capturing how a relationship can change in opposition to the will of both parties. In the end, "All the Real Girls" is a small movie about big emotions, with Green capturing the rush of love and sting of heartbreak with great vividness. ... Full Review

ALL THE REAL GIRLS Rated:R For movie details, please click here . In a manner that recalls Terrence Malick, the lyrical cinematography brings art-house poetry to the depiction of a blue-collar world. ... Full Review

There are all kinds of reasons one decides to embark on a film career. For cinematographer Tim Orr, it was boredom: I spent my early 20s working boring jobs, playing music, writing, painting, taking photographs, getting my heart broken, trying... ... Full Article

Director David Gordon Green ("George Washington" and "All the Real Girls") has an eye for the junkyard South, its rural beauty pockmarked with broken sinks, shells of battered cars and graffiti-spattered tent cities in the swampy underbrush. He is also ... Full Article

However, the film really belongs to Zooey Deschanel, graduating to her first proper lead performance after notable support roles in things like Almost Famous and The Good Girl . Shes simply astonishing here achingly beautiful, with amazingly expressive eyes and... ... Full Article

IN HIS follow-up to the lyrical "George Washington," writer-director David Gordon Green proves he hasn't lost his poetic instincts. "All the Real Girls," co-written with lead performer Paul Schneider, doesn't outdo the first film. But it's a movie of deft ... Full Article

Starring Paul Schneider, Zooey Deschanel.Written and directed by David Gordon Green.(AA) 108 min.Opens Mar 21. The jury at this year's Sundance festival gave All the Real Girls a special prize for "artistic merit and emotional truth," a... ... Full Article