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2012
PG-13
Pantelion Films
1 h 33 m

2012
PG-13
Pantelion Films
1 h 33 m

Summary Grace is a single mom. She is too busy juggling work, bills, and the very married Dr. Harford, to give her daughter, Ansiedad the attention she desperately needs. When Ansiedad's English teacher, Ms. Armstrong, introduces her students to classic coming-of-age stories, Ansiedad is inspired to skip adolescence and jump-start her life witho...

Directed By: Patricia Riggen

Written By: Hiram Martinez

2012
PG-13
Pantelion Films
1 h 33 m

2012
PG-13
Pantelion Films
1 h 33 m

Girl in Progress

Metascore Mixed or Average Based on 17 Critic Reviews

45

User Score Mixed or Average Based on 8 User Ratings

5.9

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Summary Grace is a single mom. She is too busy juggling work, bills, and the very married Dr. Harford, to give her daughter, Ansiedad the attention she desperately needs. When Ansiedad's English teacher, Ms. Armstrong, introduces her students to classic coming-of-age stories, Ansiedad is inspired to skip adolescence and jump-start her life witho...

Directed By: Patricia Riggen

Written By: Hiram Martinez

Where to Watch

Critic Reviews

Metascore

Mixed or Average Based on 17 Critic Reviews

18% Positive
3 Reviews

59% Mixed
10 Reviews

24% Negative
4 Reviews

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Critic Reviews

Metascore

Mixed or Average Based on 17 Critic Reviews

18% Positive
3 Reviews

59% Mixed
10 Reviews

24% Negative
4 Reviews

All Reviews
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Mixed Reviews
Negative Reviews

The New York Times

May 10, 2012

The movie, by virtue of its self-conscious parody of the kind of movie it is, turns out to be an unusually smart and sensitive example of the genre.

By A.O. Scott FULL REVIEW

Los Angeles Times

May 10, 2012

Mendes is charismatic and likable as Grace - perhaps too likable. Conveying Grace's parental blind spots, she doesn't turn her character's single motherhood into an argument for sainthood. Yet she avoids any darker glimpses that would lend a more satisfying complexity to the mother-daughter tension and to the movie's too-neat ending.

User Reviews

User Score

Mixed or Average Based on 8 User Ratings

38% Positive
3 Ratings

50% Mixed
4 Ratings

13% Negative
1 Rating

User Reviews

User Score

Mixed or Average Based on 8 User Ratings

38% Positive
3 Ratings

50% Mixed
4 Ratings

13% Negative
1 Rating

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May 10, 2012

Girl in Progress feels a little trapped by its own conceits: It plays with the idea that all rebellion is in some sense performed and makes a caricature out of the immature, attention-hungry mother, but it never liberates its characters from their molds.

By Michelle Orange FULL REVIEW

May 10, 2012

Never finds its own groove, alternating between high-school dramedy and overworked-single-mom narratives without ever really becoming a mother-and-daughter story until the closing scenes.

May 8, 2012

Unconvincing, flawed matriarch Mendes and junior showboat Ramirez appear to be acting in entirely different movies.

By Melissa Anderson FULL REVIEW

Chicago Sun-Times

May 9, 2012

Ansiedad is a smart charmer, and well-played by Cierra Ramirez, she should really be above this sort of thing - above the whole movie, really.

By Roger Ebert FULL REVIEW

May 7, 2012

Girl in Progress operates like a training-wheels melodrama for genre-uneducated tweens.

By Nick Schager FULL REVIEW

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Details

Production Company Anxiety Productions, Latitude Entertainment, Pantelion Films

Release Date May 11, 2012

Duration 1 h 33 m

Rating PG-13

Genres

Tagline A tale of acting up, acting out, and acting your age.

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Awards

Imagen Foundation Awards

• 3 Wins & 5 Nominations

ALMA Awards

• 3 Wins & 4 Nominations

Guild of Music Supervisors Awards

• 1 Nomination

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