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- 2019
- TV-PG
- Netflix
- 1 h 41 m
- 2019
- TV-PG
- Netflix
- 1 h 41 m
Summary Jodi (Ava Michelle) has always been the tallest girl in school — and she's always been uncomfortable with it. After slouching her way through life for 16 years and being made fun of by classmates, Jodi meets Stig (Luke Eisner), a seemingly perfect Swedish foreign exchange student who's even taller than she is. Jodi's new crush turns her ...
Directed By: Nzingha Stewart
Written By: Sam Wolfson
- 2019
- TV-PG
- Netflix
- 1 h 41 m
- 2019
- TV-PG
- Netflix
- 1 h 41 m
Tall Girl
Metascore
Available after 4 critic reviews
2.7
Where to Watch
Summary Jodi (Ava Michelle) has always been the tallest girl in school — and she's always been uncomfortable with it. After slouching her way through life for 16 years and being made fun of by classmates, Jodi meets Stig (Luke Eisner), a seemingly perfect Swedish foreign exchange student who's even taller than she is. Jodi's new crush turns her ...
Directed By: Nzingha Stewart
Written By: Sam Wolfson
Where to Watch
Top Cast
Tall Girl may miss, but it doesn’t miss by much.
A big problem is that the students are all affluent and status-obsessed, but the film has no temperament for self-examination: Instead of a John Hughes-style satire of class and social divides — not that acute here, to begin with — we get an uncritical depiction of homogeneous entitlement.
User Score
Generally Unfavorable
Based on 46 User Ratings
2.7
20% Positive
9 Ratings
9 Ratings
11% Mixed
5 Ratings
5 Ratings
70% Negative
32 Ratings
32 Ratings
User Score
Generally Unfavorable
Based on 46 User Ratings
2.7
20% Positive
9 Ratings
9 Ratings
11% Mixed
5 Ratings
5 Ratings
70% Negative
32 Ratings
32 Ratings
This criminally underrated teen romance deserves better than this criticism. With an awesome message, lighthearted aesthetic, and a sweet love story that contains characters who are not perfect or totally bad, but have both highlights and flaws that are revealed.
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An excellent teen romcom. Does not pull any punches and is light on the schmaltz while still being very heartfelt and sweet. As a tall girl myself, this is VERY accurate to the experience and the kind of representation I've been waiting to see in cinema my whole life.
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I think this movie is really underrated. I don't say that its super great but I think that it has good sense of humor, good written and good conflict between Jody and her dad and also this movie got an original idea, I mean have you ever seenin a movie or in a series a girl that her problem is being TALL, not being too shy or something like this that we seen a million times. long story short, I think this is not amazing but I think but I think its normal so if you have free time you can watch it
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[SPOILER ALERT: This review contains spoilers.]
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This Netflix Original is like any typical, basic teen romcom, but extremely cringeworthy, unrealistic, and not relatable whatsoever. Nzingha Stewart was unsuccessful with making a decent teen romcom. It was obvious that the director wanted to make her movie, an original teen romcom. But all Stewart did was switch out the "loner" girl who gets made fun of because of her lower financial status or how she physically looks like or wears for an extremely tall girl from a rich community. In general, It was extra boy-centric(which was irritating) and may perceive to or encourage young audiences like me, that we should be obsessed with high school relationships, than what really matters in this world. Very disappointing.
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In spite of the good acceptance message that by the way, has also been seen in many other films of this same type and genre, the predictability, the cliches and the stereotypes kills this film from the get go.
I didn't see the trailer before watching it but I decided to see it after finishing it because I wanted to know how they were promoting it. And frankly the trailer tells you the whole thing, it tells you where it will go and how it will end.
So I recommend that you better watch the trailer and not watch this film, but if you dare to watch it, you will realize after the first 10 minutes of what the hell is going to happen throughout the whole story.
Total failure but what else can I say? It's Netflix's standard after all.
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Production Company
Wonderland Sound and Vision
Release Date Sep 13, 2019
Duration 1 h 41 m
Rating TV-PG
Tagline When you don't fit in, stand tall.
Awards
ReFrame
• 1 Win & 1 Nomination
Guild of Music Supervisors Awards
• 1 Nomination
