Carrie Pilby

Name: Carrie Pilby
Genre: Drama, Comedy
Released: March 31, 2017
Duration: 98 min
Rating: 52

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| Release Date: March 31, 2017

Summary: Carrie (Bel Powley), a gifted woman who graduated from Harvard at 19, struggles to make sense of the world as it relates to morality, relationships, sex and leaving her New York apartment. Without a job and friends because of her unreasonably high standards, Carrie is told by her therapist to create a five-point plan to get herself on track.

Director: Susan Johnson

Genre(s): Drama, Comedy

Runtime: 98 min

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The Guardian Jordan Hoffman

Sep 16, 2016

Carrie Pilby the film is 100% Carrie Pilby the character, a living quirk machine that in a lesser actor’s hands might be insufferable. Read full review

The Film Stage Jared Mobarak

Sep 18, 2016

Thankfully Johnson got someone like Powley to take on the central role because it’s through her honesty that we allow the rest to be somewhat two-dimensional. Read full review

RogerEbert.com Christy Lemire

Mar 31, 2017

Johnson keeps it all moving at a decent clip, though, with the help of Michael Penn’s score. And she photographs Powley and her mesmerizing blue eyes so lovingly that it’s hard not to find her adorable—even when she’s being awful. Read full review

Katie Walsh

Mar 30, 2017

Carrie Pilby is a studiously quirky affair, but only the natural charm of Powley salvages that tone. The film swings wildly from melancholy to wacky, never truly melding the two; it somehow also lacks verve and energy. Read full review

Rex Reed

Mar 31, 2017

In the title role of the sometimes clever but mostly contrived Carrie Pilby, she (Bel Powley) taxes the boundaries of both. Read full review

Ben Kenigsberg

Mar 30, 2017

In 2015, Bel Powley stole Sundance with her performance in “The Diary of a Teenage Girl.” Carrie Pilby poses a tougher test. Might she single-handedly redeem 90 minutes of contrived nonsense? Read full review

Diego Semerene

Mar 29, 2017

The film is essentially an exercise in forcing a female genius back into her proper place of dependence on both the father figure and the Prince Charming. Read full review

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DawdlingPoet

Nov 25, 2021

I enjoyed this film - its a bit predictable perhaps but I felt I could relate to the main, titular character. I liked the characters and I liked how Carrie dealt with situations and the suggestions of her therapist. Its not exactly an amazing film but its a quietly decent film, as coming ofI enjoyed this film - its a bit predictable perhaps but I felt I could relate to the main, titular character. I liked the characters and I liked how Carrie dealt with situations and the suggestions of her therapist. Its not exactly an amazing film but its a quietly decent film, as coming of age films about introverts are concerned. Its not especially memorable as such perhaps but I enjoyed it and I particularly liked the father daughter relationship with Carrie (played well by Bel Powley) and her dad, only known as Mr. Pilby, played by Gabriel Byrne.… Expand

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LeZee

Aug 18, 2017

Life happens and we just've to flow with it, making better choices!

A better film than I thought. What I thought was seeing how it was received. It was based on the book of the same name, directed by a newcomer. A coming-of-age film, about a 19 year old smart girl, but struggling in theLife happens and we just've to flow with it, making better choices!

A better film than I thought. What I thought was seeing how it was received. It was based on the book of the same name, directed by a newcomer. A coming-of-age film, about a 19 year old smart girl, but struggling in the real world since finished her education. Particularly, she's having a trouble with her father in communicating. Not that she's incapable of blend in with the rest of the world, but she's preoccupied with what she's interested in. Now her therapist hints to make a list to accomplish things than the dull life according to him she's presently living on. During her attempt, what are all things she go through was told in the remaining narration.

Bel Powley was brilliant in the title role. It was more like a sequel to her previous film 'The Diary of a Teenage Girl'. Like it was the next stage of her story. Between adulthood and teenhood, at the edge of teenage. Apart from her, the rest of the cast was decent. I usually like this kind of films, but they are all same. Developed from the basic storyline that we are very familiar with. In that perspective, this is not an impressive film, especially if you have seen plenty. Even though not bad for watching it once. Since the characters, cast and settings differ, besides the presentation was good, it surely a nice film to watch alone in a lazy weekend. Probably under- appreciated, but definitely an under- noticed film of the year.

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JLuis_001

Sep 6, 2017

Well directed for most of its time but eventually it gets lost within its own insubstantiality and ends up being a comedy that fails to advance more or to become something bigger.

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Flipje

May 25, 2021

This review contains spoilers, click expand to view. This is a perfectly okay movie. Okay. A precocious young British woman living in New York with a fairly nice apartment and a musician for a neighbour. The musician is attractive and surprise, surprise, when Carrie opens her heart and gives him the time of day (instead of pride and prejudicing him) she discovers him to be a classical musician (and she loves her Edvard Grieg). Otherwise, weird characters (her colleagues at her new job) are weird and the bad guy (her former lit professor) is a villain, a chauvinist who happens to deserve the well-delivered punch in the face towards the film's close. As for Carrie going on a blind-date via the classifieds, this felt dated and not in keeping with the film's modern setting. Still, the brief interaction with the soon-to-be-married man was a momentary highlight and could have been more intriguing. Again, an okay film. It is digestible, the character veers occasionally into know-it-all territory yet you feel for her. Fine. Okay.… Expand

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