- Release Date: 2007
- Runtime: 85 min
- Genre: Drama, Mystery, Thriller
- Starring: Toni Collette, Piper Laurie, Don Smith, Michael Raysses ... see all
- Director: Karen Moncrieff
- Plot: In Los Angeles, a story about a dead girl, told in five chapters. A woman, miserable in her circumscribed life caring for her domineering mother, finds a body. Somehow, this... Read more
User Reviews
Horribly written and overacted
Feb 11, 2009
gloomyrival - yahoo.com
Feb 11, 2009gloomyrival - yahoo.com
Very amateurish movie. Lots of screaming, cursing, and grim dialogue that goes nowhere. Every performance in this film is way over the top...why speak your lines when you can shout them or throw in profanities every other word? Don't waste your... Full review
amazing
May 17, 2008
tfloyd85008 - yahoo.com
May 17, 2008tfloyd85008 - yahoo.com
this was excellent! the story is all tied together, though not so obviously. i'm definitely not a huge fan of brittany murphy but for the 15 minutes that she was in this movie she was AMAZING!... Full review
the dead movie
Apr 27, 2008
edgarsiordia - yahoo.com
Apr 27, 2008edgarsiordia - yahoo.com
this movie is a waste of time, i watched it and it was awful, i can't believe people make this kind of movies, this could have been a great story but i guess someone just decided to make it awful, to... Full review
One of the best movies this year.
Mar 03, 2008
smarieshore - yahoo.com
Mar 03, 2008smarieshore - yahoo.com
I'm pretty sure that without a doubt, The Dead Girl is by far one of the best movies of 2006. Following the different lives structure of Crash, Magnolia, and 21 Grams; this movie brilliantly brings all of these elements together, and... Full review
A Nutshell Review: The Dead Girl
Sep 30, 2007
DICK STEEL - imdb.com
Sep 30, 2007DICK STEEL - imdb.com
The story brought memories of an old television cult series called Twin Peaks. A dead, blonde girl's body is being discovered in the grasslands of an idyllic village, and this provides the catalyst for the movie as the plot unravels... Full review
very slow movie
Sep 30, 2007
germanshepherd13 - yahoo.com
Sep 30, 2007germanshepherd13 - yahoo.com
I found this to be very slow and making me wonder how this movie all ties together...The suspense of waiting to see how it ties to gether is normally OK of the pace of the movie moves but I found this... Full review
Loved The First 1Hr, Then Bore.
Sep 12, 2007
boice2 - yahoo.com
Sep 12, 2007boice2 - yahoo.com
Hard Candy Is Okay, Most Of The Movie Was Boring, It Started Out Great, The Ending Sukced. I Only Give The First 45 Minutes An A+, But The Rest Of The Movie Was Boring, No Suspense, No Gore Or Thrills. I... Full review
The plot is missing some stuff
Jul 28, 2007
staceymossel - yahoo.com
Jul 28, 2007staceymossel - yahoo.com
the cast was great i loved the cast, as well as the trailer for this movie. but right there is where it ends. you see bits of pieces of the story, like bable, and very well explained i just hated the... Full review
uneven
Jul 18, 2007
ajsmon - yahoo.com
Jul 18, 2007ajsmon - yahoo.com
This movie in the beginning is very dull and anticlimatic. Pieces of the film throughout are interesting but nothing worth the time spent watching it.... Full review
Interesting film, not bad
Jun 21, 2007
sunflowergirl1113 - yahoo.com
Jun 21, 2007sunflowergirl1113 - yahoo.com
This movie was okay. It was kinda confusing at times and infuriating as well. It brought emotion of so many kinds, that was the best part of it, and also at times the worst part. It did leave me in the... Full review
Critics Reviews
| Jan 18, 2009dearcinema.com
The realistic performances, dark grainy cinematography and the decaying landscapes are all a far cry from the traditional settings in Hollywood movies we are so accustomed to seeing.
Moncrieff eschews the trappings of a thriller, and instead takes us on a painful, but ultimately more rewarding journey of self discovery and worth.
... Full Review
| Nov 30, 2007PopMatters
WHY NOW: Spiridonov gives the year's best performance by a child.
This one passed me by in its short run as well, until I dug out the disc for this story.
Best movies of 2007 that (almost) nobody saw
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| Mar 28, 2007PopMatters
Still, for all the violence done to Rosetta (a prostitute who expects nothing good will come to her) or Melora (who now can only imagine what her daughter went through and blame herself), the film's most remarkable image belongs to "The Wife", Ruth (Mary Beth Hurt in a bravely irritating performance)..... ... Full Review
| Feb 23, 2007Houston Chronicle
Stark film riddled with desires -....And we get few scattered insights into the dead girl, who is less the star of the film than the single bleak excuse for it.....In this section and others, vehement acting and effective film craft buoy a screenplay that's riddled with holes..... ... Full Review
| Dec 29, 2006Cinematical
do little to mar the movie as a whole.....The film is not without its flaws:.... ... Full Review
News
LONDON -- The 10th Rio International Film Festival wrapped Thursday night with the top feature film prize going to Jose Eduardo Belmonte's droll thriller "Should Nothing Else Work Out" (Se Nada Mais der Certo) and its star Caroline Abras winning... ... Full Article
The Dead Girl (Film)
filmink.com.au –
2008-06-01
Film Worth: $12.00 When the gruesome remains of a dead runaway are discovered, several women's lives are spun into uncharted territory. Arden (Toni Collette), who finds the body, uses the shattering experience as a means of breaking free of her... ... Full Article
Cannes 08. Review orphans.
greencine.com –
2008-06-01
"Stage-bound dialogue lurches from one monologue to the other in thesper Matheus Nachtergaele 's helming debut The Dead Girl's Feast ," writes Jay Weissberg in Variety . "Set in a remote Amazonia community that's installed a young mystic as a ... Full Article
Dead Girl on DVD May 15th
moviesonline.ca –
2007-05-15
THE DEAD GIRL is coming to DVD on May 15, 2007. The ensemble film, a Lakeshore Entertainment/First Look Studios production in association with Pitbull Pictures, features a cast of award-winning actors including Academy Award nominee Toni Collette , Academy Award... ... Full Article
The Dead Girl: A Haunting Story About the Gruesome, Untimely Death of One Young Woman
associatedcontent.com –
2007-05-07
"The Dead Girl", written and directed by Karen Moncrieff, is a haunting story of how six women are affected by the gruesome, untimely death of one young woman. ... Full Article

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