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- 2015
- Not Rated
- Entertainment One
- 1 h 30 m
- 2015
- Not Rated
- Entertainment One
- 1 h 30 m
Summary A failed Lower East Side DJ struggling to keep his life together becomes entangled in a murder mystery involving a desperate woman, a missing drug dealer, and the scion of a powerful investment firm.
Directed By: Julius Onah
Written By: Mayuran Tiruchelvam, Julius Onah
- 2015
- Not Rated
- Entertainment One
- 1 h 30 m
- 2015
- Not Rated
- Entertainment One
- 1 h 30 m
The Girl Is in Trouble
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Summary A failed Lower East Side DJ struggling to keep his life together becomes entangled in a murder mystery involving a desperate woman, a missing drug dealer, and the scion of a powerful investment firm.
Directed By: Julius Onah
Written By: Mayuran Tiruchelvam, Julius Onah
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Metascore
Mixed or Average
Based on 9 Critic Reviews
55
44% Positive
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4 Reviews
56% Mixed
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Sampled old newsreel and security-camera footage flesh out the narrative, and the film's visually arresting, but it's the performances that hold it all together.
It’s tightly directed and well-performed, particularly by Columbus Short and a career-redefining turn from Wilmer Valderrama. If anything — and trust me when I tell you this is the opposite of most independently produced noirs from debut directors — there’s an overabundance of ideas in The Girl is in Trouble, sometimes to a distracting degree.
Wilmer Valderrama utterly reinvents himself here as Angel.
Though the film gets more banal as it reaches its climax—most viewers will have seen it all before—Onah creates refreshing space around these familiar stories and themes. He has a wonderful sense of style and movement, and he isn’t afraid of a story’s personal elements. He goes after them.
The story has plenty of possibilities, though Onah rarely manages to put his own stamp on things.
A modern-day noir weighed down by redundant narration and a forced plot, The Girl Is in Trouble feels like a tug of war between the actors, who understand the need for lightness, and dialogue that emerges in expository clots.
Unfortunately, despite displaying an admirable stylistic ambitiousness and excellent use of its NYC Lower East Side locations The Girl is in Trouble never manages to feel like more than a strained, modern-day pastiche.
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