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Dirty Girl
Dirty Girl is the story of Danielle Edmondston, a troubled and promiscuous high school student. When her misbehavior gets her banished to special ed, she teams up with an innocent closet-case and together they head out on a road trip to discover each other and themselves through a funny and serendipitous friendship.
18 June 1933
21 May 1961, Moberly, Missouri, USA
17 April 1980, Omaha, Nebraska, USA
14 September 1971, Chicago, Illinois, USA
23 October 1956, Pikeville, Kentucky, USA
17 January 1992, Ravenna, Ohio, USA
October 14, 2011
The film rolls downhill to Serious Town when Danielle finds her father, and although the performers are equipped to handle it, it gets more heavy-handed as it winds to a close.
October 07, 2011
One can appreciate an artistic effort without actually endorsing it, which may be the most generous approach to Abe Sylvia's frustratingly uneven debut.
October 21, 2011
Dirty Girl isn't. Sorry, but it's just faux grime, a thin layer of bad behaviour that wipes clean with a two-ply tissue to reveal the real movie beneath - all shiny sentimentality.
September 22, 2012
Dirty Girl is an off beat gem that's well worth the bidding war it inspired at the 2010 Toronto International Film Festival.
October 20, 2011
The movie is all over the place, searching for an identity that proves almost entirely elusive.
January 27, 2012
This is a fearless performance but one that doesn't forget to be genuine and real, Danielle's emotional transformation stirring, oftentimes powerful and, in my opinion, difficult to forget.
October 07, 2011
Undoubtedly this movie means something to its director and screenwriter - a former dancer making his feature-film debut. So why didn't he put more care into the period?
December 21, 2011
...l feels like a Hollywood vision of the way the ignorant and unwashed comport themselves. It feels ugly and it made me sad.
October 07, 2011
If your sensibility is pure trashy camp, don't expect anyone not to laugh when you try to be earnest.
October 21, 2011
A funny, poignant if slightly uneven coming-of-age story.
May 03, 2017
Growing up gay in 1980s Oklahoma could not have been easy, but writer-director Abe Sylvia and the cast of his debut feature Dirty Girl make it look like a helluva lot of fun.
October 20, 2011
Dirty Girl broadcasts its intent to be edgy and subversive - poking fun throughout at small-town, conservative attitudes toward sex and morality - without ever achieving subversion.
