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  • 2007
  • R
  • Regent Releasing
  • 1 h 22 m
  • 2007
  • R
  • Regent Releasing
  • 1 h 22 m

Summary Armed with biting humor and quirky sensibility, Rodney and his Rubenesque friend Sabrina are valiantly suffering through the indignity known as high school. Both are outcasts; he’s gay and she’s overweight. Trapped in a small Texas town and having come to accept his “fat girl” within, Rodney is an aspiring Broadway star who musters up t...

Directed By: Ash Christian

Written By: Ash Christian

  • 2007
  • R
  • Regent Releasing
  • 1 h 22 m
  • 2007
  • R
  • Regent Releasing
  • 1 h 22 m

Fat Girls

Metascore Mixed or Average Based on 8 Critic Reviews
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Summary Armed with biting humor and quirky sensibility, Rodney and his Rubenesque friend Sabrina are valiantly suffering through the indignity known as high school. Both are outcasts; he’s gay and she’s overweight. Trapped in a small Texas town and having come to accept his “fat girl” within, Rodney is an aspiring Broadway star who musters up t...

Directed By: Ash Christian

Written By: Ash Christian

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Metascore
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47
25% Positive
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75% Mixed
6 Reviews
0% Negative
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Mixed or Average Based on 8 Critic Reviews
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75
Big-Hearted and often quite funny if crudely made, Fat Girls cleverly subverts the clichés of high school comedies to serve an autobiographical story about an overweight gay teen in a small Texas town.
By Lou Lumenick FULL REVIEW
63
Christian infuses this familiar story with gentle empathy, which goes a long way in balancing out the more amateurish choices.
By Elizabeth Weitzman FULL REVIEW
50
Without insight, memorable dialogue or interesting characters, Fat Girls quickly wears thin.
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50
This film goes to some lengths not to be another high-school movie, which means prom stinks and no one can sing. Given Fat Girls' honesty, and its delicately drawn examples of social hopelessness, the sudden, sugary, puzzling finale feels out of character. It's as though the film forgot how to talk to us.
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50
Wins no points for delicacy. Still, it does score some laughs.
By Dennis Harvey FULL REVIEW
42
In the words of his own character, this young filmmaker hasn't found his "inner fat girl."
By Noel Murray FULL REVIEW
40
Ends up stranded between two concepts, either of which might have yielded a more satisfying film.
By Stephen Holden FULL REVIEW

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Production Company Cranium Entertainment, Hear No Evil Films, Kelli Lerner Casting, Mattie Films, joshipop
Release Date Nov 2, 2007
Duration 1 h 22 m
Rating R
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Awards

L.A. Outfest
• 1 Win & 1 Nomination
Casting Society of America, USA
• 1 Nomination

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