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- 2012
- PG-13
- Film Collective
- 1 h 35 m
- 2012
- PG-13
- Film Collective
- 1 h 35 m
Summary A young Texas mother who loses her child to foster care begins smuggling Mexicans across the border with her father.
Directed By: David Riker
Written By: David Riker
- 2012
- PG-13
- Film Collective
- 1 h 35 m
- 2012
- PG-13
- Film Collective
- 1 h 35 m
The Girl
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Summary A young Texas mother who loses her child to foster care begins smuggling Mexicans across the border with her father.
Directed By: David Riker
Written By: David Riker
Where to Watch
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Metascore
Mixed or Average
Based on 12 Critic Reviews
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42% Positive
5 Reviews
5 Reviews
50% Mixed
6 Reviews
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8% Negative
1 Review
1 Review
Metascore
Mixed or Average
Based on 12 Critic Reviews
54
42% Positive
5 Reviews
5 Reviews
50% Mixed
6 Reviews
6 Reviews
8% Negative
1 Review
1 Review
Written and directed by David Riker, who built his 1998 drama "La Ciudad" around immigrants in New York City, The Girl is stingy with backstory but rich with visual clues.
Anyone who finds this conclusion a humanistic or socially reprehensible dealbreaker can hardly be faulted. Before these questionable issues come to a head and then falter in the finale, there is a lot of value in The Girl.
Uses the perils of immigrating to this country without papers as a backdrop for a poor white American woman's bumpy path to enlightenment.
Writer-director David Riker's film is tough going, but worth it.
Writer-director David Riker, who previously made the accomplished 1998 Paisan homage The City (La Ciudad), has a great eye for detail: He sketches the narrow boundaries of Cornish’s sad life in Austin expertly while bringing a village square across the border to vivid life. He also gets another fine performance out of Cornish.
What at first came across as a tale of dawning conscience increasingly starts to feel rigged.
If the poor really interested such filmmakers, these movies would have something to offer other than lugubriousness masquerading as seriousness, and clichés presented as hard truths.
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Production Company
Journeyman Pictures,
Axiom Films,
Goldcrest Pictures,
Bonita Films,
Lulu Producciones,
Sin Sentido Films
Release Date Dec 14, 2012
Duration 1 h 35 m
Rating PG-13
Tagline The journey will change her forever
Awards
San Antonio CineFestival
• 1 Win & 1 Nomination
Mannheim-Heidelberg International Filmfestival
• 1 Win & 1 Nomination
Tribeca Film Festival
• 1 Nomination
