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Twenty-two-year-old Paul lives with his mother and works as a mechanic in a sleepy North Carolina mill town. Charming, smart, and unambitious, he has a devoted circle of rowdy friends and a reputation...( read more 
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MCT:October 7, 2008
Beautifully captured by David Gordan Green, 'All the real girls' tells the story of your first love.
The film plods along until we meet Paul and Noel(played by Paul Schneider and Zooey Deschanel) who share some of the best onscreen chemistry I've seen in a long long time.
I really recommend you watch it twice before forming an opinion, first time round you might fail to appreciate the honesty, imagery and emotional sweetness of this little indie triumph -
MCT:October 2, 2008
Beautiful, brutal and honest. It took me some difficult experiences to fully understand this film and now that I've done it, I have trouble knowing with whom I identified with the most.
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MCT:July 31, 2008Vi esse filme quase que sem querer, sem nunca ter ouvido falar sobre, a cena final fez meus olhos se encherem d'água, foi surreal ver como algo achado ao acaso assim, pudesse me tocar tanto e de tantas formas, com diálogos e facetas simplistas e bem elaborados que por vezes aparentam bastante o improviso e a falta de sentido que nós jovens expressamos com nossos diálogos egocêntricos tentando expor os valores que estamos aprendendo a desenvolver, lágrimas, abraços, crescimento, cada cena do filme me parece um curta-metragem sensacional, é o tipo de filme que marca a sua vida.
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MCT:July 21, 2008
This film is perfect and hit me at the right time. Young love is captured beautifully in this heart-wrenching film.
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MCT:July 9, 2008It was O.K., that's about it. It had a chance of being better, because of casting, but it just wasn't. half of the movie was strange, weird, and/or funny; like the car race or the bowling alley dance, but the rest was just 'blah'. Delivery of lines were sometimes, what seemed like, forgotten or a canned delivery. It was O.K. and that's about it.
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MCT:June 14, 2008
For a pretty low-budget film that never got much press coverage, it was pretty good. Sweet. It doesn't hurt that I love Zooey Deschanel.
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MCT:May 31, 2008I really enjoyed this, although I got the ugly pan-and-scan version, so I think I'll have to get a proper copy.
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MCT:May 30, 2008
From the moment this film started I was inlove with it. It's tone, it's imagery, it's music, it's faces, and it's words transported me to the days of young love. It's brutal honesty and undeniable fucking beauty catapulted it into my top 5 of all time. No other film has ever displayed the poetics of intimate conversation, when one speaks and the other listens. As well as the bull-headed stupidity behind miscommunications between lovers.
It never tries to define love, only observe it as it can sometimes be.
A prescious possibility. -
MCT:April 16, 2008
a good solid american indie and showing talent of zooey deschanel in the lead, she really needs more main starring roles, in a story involvng friendship, and a sort of forbidden love between a guy and his friends sister, and obstacles involved
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MCT:March 18, 2008
With his sophomore effort, David Gordon Green is sort of doing to the romance what he did to the coming of age story in George Washington. Unlike George Washington, this adheres much closer to the rules of narrative cinema. I?d compare it to the 1955 film Marty, which depicted a romance between common people rather than glamorous Hollywood types. The film is honest and intimate, and I was with it for a very long time. However, about two thirds of the way through there is a plot development that monkeys up the cogs of the film in a way that really through me off guard. The development was not wild or even out of left field, but the narrative really went in a direction I didn?t expect it, and I?m not sure whether or not I liked where it went. I think I?ll have to revisit it the way I had to revisit George Washington, but I will say that I like this on my first viewing a lot more than I liked George Washington on its first viewing.
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MCT:February 11, 2008I was a bit hard to pay full attention under the circumstances I watched it, but that's okay because it isn't the most linear or plot-driven movie I've ever seen. It was character and atomosphere-driven, and those are the elements which carried the film, I think.
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MCT:January 2, 2008
I'm bumping this up to 4 stars after watching it again. I appreciated it much more the second time, there are some really great moments in this movie and strong emotional performances from the leads, and for once this is a romance that doesn't fall prey to cliches.
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MCT:December 10, 2007
This one of those great independent films that few have actually heard of. This movie is a love story between a former womanizer and his best friend's sister. The movie takes us through their relationship, the happy times and the not so happy times, and develops the character's quite well. All in all, this is a great love story.
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MCT:October 13, 2007
when things just dont work out. not a typical epic hollywood love story. not to mention: Deschannel is so cute. :)
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MCT:September 10, 2007
its beauty lies in its simplicity- just a simple human drama about the problems of young relationships... well acted, well written, and well directed, if not a little bittersweet
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MCT:September 9, 2007
Not your traditional ending for a romance indie flick - I like the soundtrack. Don't think this film is for everyone though
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MCT:August 6, 2007
Somewhat, but not really a let down. I've read reviews, and after reading positive [mostly] and negative reviews I was set to watch.
David Gordon Green, who is one of my favourite directors, knows how to write a screenplay. It's like the title says, real. The movie has that realistic feel that we're all looking for. From the very personal performances from Paul Schneider and Zooey Deschanel, two underrated actors. The two havegreat chemitry, and are great at improvisation. The camera-work makes it feel like we're popping into their lives without being noticed, with also some great cinematography.
It's finally a new take on young love. Can't wait to watch more films made by D.G.G. -
MCT:June 27, 2007
"don't try to come back to something that you fucked up by saying I love u." powerful scripts. breathtaking acts.
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MCT:June 16, 2007
I love this film. Then I took a friend to see it who HATED it. I'm conflicted because I love it for all my reasons, but I totally see why she hated. Ah, cinema.
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MCT:June 13, 2007
Apart from a couple of delights in Elf and Bridge To Terabithia, Zooey Deschanel has spent most of her filmography as being the best thing in otherwise middling to poor features (Eulogy, The New Guy, Hitchhikers Guide To The Galaxy, etc.). That "All The Real Girls" can be added to that category is a real shame as Deschanel delivers a so-far career best performance; as vulnerable as she is visceral Deschanel is the star of the show here.
All The Real Girls, whilst beautifully photographed, unfortunately delves into various "indie film" stereotypes and draws some of the worst from each. The plot which focuses on the burgeoning romance between Paul Schneider's Paul, a womanizer, and Deschanel's Noel, an 18 year old who has just returned from boarding school and still a virgin, is intolerably inert in it's pacing. Quirky asides and dialogue are thrown in seemingly for their own sake and at one point or another each character has a cloying expository monologue which soon begins to grate.
Similarly whilst Deschanel is entirely believable and intense as the confused young lady, her surrounding cast seem content with acting through overly shaped eyebrows, bad hairstyles and unblinking gazes into the distance/at themselves in the mirror (a la the Sean Penn school of acting).
Despite it's flaws the film is not entirely devoid of merit. Paul's character development over the course of the film is an intelligent storyline which manages to steer the right side of Hollywood cliche and remains true to itself - indeed the plot is held together with honest integirty. Unfortunately despite Deschanel's efforts the film never threatens to equal more of the sum of it's parts . In a better film this could have been her breakthrough role - instead she'll have to keep hoping and praying that The Gospel According To Janis finally comes through or she may have to spend the rest of her career as "Mark Wahlberg's wife" (as in The Happening), and continue being the best thing in poor to middling films. -
MCT:May 15, 2007
The photography is beautiful, including the grittiness of the rust belt. There are beautiful scenes of the factories. These are put in contrast to the beauty of the lakes, hills, rivers. As we take the time to learn the characters, two other thoughts come to mind. First, you are too stupid to be in the 'real' world. And then as we continue to explore these characters, we learn that there is a charm and beauty of the area that might make putting up with small town limitations a reasonable trade (for some).
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MCT:May 5, 2007
A nice script with some interesting performances that feel like they are being ad libbed much of the time.
I have a soft spot in my heart for films that take place in the autumn of the northeast and mostly outdoors. Zooey Deschanel was probably the best thing about this movie. It's very similar in style to 2006's "Diggers," but far less interesting.
Still, it's a nice low budget indie that is enjoyable; if for nothing else, the decent acting and unique characters. -
MCT:March 28, 2007
an all time fav this movie is outstanding,Zooey Deschanel is amazing & so on the markand co star Paul Schneider if i'm not wrong he wrote the movie ,these to had such chemistr on screen .i've watched it at least 20 times (how sad am i lol ).
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MCT:March 2, 2007
I have a slight crush on Zoe Deschanel and this indie flick made me like her more. Great little film.
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