All the Real Girls (2003)

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• paul o

  
  What the hell David Gordon Green? You make the highness and the sitter instead of making more films like this?? This is actually a raw powerhouse film that shows how amazing zooey descahnel and Paul schnieder are. The story is simplistic but the acting and the direction of the film… More
  What the hell David Gordon Green? You make the highness and the sitter instead of making more films like this?? This is actually a raw powerhouse film that shows how amazing zooey descahnel and Paul schnieder are. The story is simplistic but the acting and the direction of the film are what makes a contemporary classic. Huge fan of this film!

• Coxxie M

  
  Good acting, embarrassing southern accents.

• Jennifer X

  
  The romance is entirely convincing and awkward and many times cute, but the story was stretched a little too thin for my liking.

• Leigh R

  
  Went on a Zooey movie bonanza. This one really hit home to me. I could imagine the characters being in real life. Seeing them as everyday people walking the streets. Great chemistry, but I have yet to find a movie where Zooey doesn't have good chemistry with her other half.… More
  Went on a Zooey movie bonanza. This one really hit home to me. I could imagine the characters being in real life. Seeing them as everyday people walking the streets. Great chemistry, but I have yet to find a movie where Zooey doesn't have good chemistry with her other half. Really good movie... laugh, cry, and everything in between.

• Conner R

  
  Just a really interesting movie to watch, it's as good technically as it is well written. There's some really new ideas presented about love and relationships in it, especially when you consider that this was made long before te indie drama craze that now overpowers the… More
  Just a really interesting movie to watch, it's as good technically as it is well written. There's some really new ideas presented about love and relationships in it, especially when you consider that this was made long before te indie drama craze that now overpowers the market. Zooey Deschanel is such a lovable and honest person that you can't help but find her irresistable. The only reason I don't hold this in higher regard is because of the completely terrible and ridiculous confession scene where she admits that she cheated on him, it makes the movie more melodramatic that it should have been.

• ♥˩ƳИИ &

  
  PAUL SCHNEIDER, ZOOEY DESCHANEL, SHEA WHIGHAM, PATRICIA CLARKSON, DANNY MCBRIDE, MAURICE COMPTE, BENJAMIN MOUTON 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… More
  PAUL SCHNEIDER, ZOOEY DESCHANEL, SHEA WHIGHAM, PATRICIA CLARKSON, DANNY MCBRIDE, MAURICE COMPTE, BENJAMIN MOUTON 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 as a callous heart breaker. When he meets his best friend's sister Noel, fresh from boarding school graduation, the two fall into a perfect, real, but terrifying love. Love the simplicity of how real and raw the love story in this movie is. The characters are very realistic. You relate to one of more of them on many levels. This is not your typical Hollywood movie. These characters are every day people. They are someone you may know, or may actually come across in a small town. The two main characters are relatable for those of us who have had their first true love and all the happiness and strife that comes with it. Great cast. Zooey Deschanel is just amazingly good. Paul Schneider is very talented. He was brilliant in this movie. He also co-wrote it. I thought the scene with him and his mom in the hospital was hilarious, and also the scene with Zooey in the bowling ally is just priceless. Loved this movie.

• Aaron N

  
  Paul: I just want to make sure that a million years from now I can still see you up close and we'll still have amazing things to say. A well made drama about two people that fall in love, however its not that simple. The performances are solid, the dialog propels it further,… More
  Paul: I just want to make sure that a million years from now I can still see you up close and we'll still have amazing things to say. A well made drama about two people that fall in love, however its not that simple. The performances are solid, the dialog propels it further, and the subtle approach steers the film away from being melodramatic. Its slow paced but well told. Paul Schneider and Zooey Deschanel star as Paul and Noel. Paul is a man who's been womanizing since his early teens and Noel is his best friend's sister, recently back from boarding school. The inevitable turn involving the best friend finding out is part of the plot, but another turn is what truly turns this film around. Director David Gordan Green has a naturalistic style that provides this movie with the right mood and sense of thought. Nothing is ever over emphasized in this movie, I found it very real and easy to relate with for various reasons. The supporting character also add to the film, including Patricia Clarkson as Paul's mother. Its the extra padding of these characters that certainly keeps the film interesting. Even though I've been vague on where the plot goes, this is a good story, maybe not appealing to all, but well acted and made. Paul: Do you wanna know a secret that I didn't tell anybody ever?... You know how ducks fly home in a V? It's like a v-shape when they get home? I was walking my dog and I looked up and there's this big V above me, there's all these ducks flying back to their home. And right when they flew above me, I saw 'em and, they crashed into a big house! The whole V! And then, they hit the ground, and they just kinda curled up. You ever fucking see that? Have you ever seen a mistake in nature? Have you ever seen an animal make a mistake?

• E.J. B

  
  Captures young romance in an honest and surreal way that few films are able to.

• Daniel J D

  
  I'm not sure where this movie takes place, but apparently the state flag is a dribbling, slouched-over kid in a wheelchair. On a related note, I'm a big Deschanel fan, but this was atrocious. I understand that she doesn't want to be typecast as the snarky, intelligent… More
  I'm not sure where this movie takes place, but apparently the state flag is a dribbling, slouched-over kid in a wheelchair. On a related note, I'm a big Deschanel fan, but this was atrocious. I understand that she doesn't want to be typecast as the snarky, intelligent type and her acting is still decent here, but this doesn't work. I know, I know, everyone in the film is retarded. I get it. I just don't get why we need another sub par film on the subject. But you know, I'm probably just missing something pointless and trivial here. There's probably something vaguely poetic in the random plot progression, constant fade transitions, and completely innocuous landscape scenes where nothing happens? I honestly don't know. "You'd think moviemakers would have run out of new [ideas]" and then you just stop thinking. That's when you know you've watched this movie.

• Tim S

  
  I was surprised by this movie. Deshanel is great.

• Christopher H

  
  All The Real Girls requires investment and a leap of faith, but given the opportunity, the film will satisfy a humor that you never realized existed inside of you. http://proofinpicture.wordpress.com/2010/09/19/all-the-real-girls/

• Daisy M

  
  How are the Flixster user ratings so high on this film? Maybe I just didn't "get" this film?? For me it turned in big disappointment. There is nothing wrong with trying to bring a fresh take to a love story, but to do this, one needs characters that are truly real and… More
  How are the Flixster user ratings so high on this film? Maybe I just didn't "get" this film?? For me it turned in big disappointment. There is nothing wrong with trying to bring a fresh take to a love story, but to do this, one needs characters that are truly real and worthy spending two hours with. This film began well, and the two leads draw you in, but then their characters start behaving so stupidly that I had to turn it off because I couldn't stand watching it anymore. There wasn't any practical meaning, If you can find one please let me know so I can turn it on from there.

• Sunil J

  
  A wonderfully simple story that's well directed and emotional.

• Quinto W

  
  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.

• matt s

  
  This film is perfect and hit me at the right time. Young love is captured beautifully in this heart-wrenching film. Somebody buy this for me.

• MJS M

  
  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… More
  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.

• Leo L

  
  A great film. A personal favorite.

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