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The Dead Girl
Directed by
Karen Moncrieff
R
2006
1h 33m
Drama
,
Crime
,
and more
6.5
75%
65%
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The clues to a young woman's death come together as the lives of seemingly unrelated people begin to intersect.
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Cast of The Dead Girl
Brittany Murphy
Krista
Toni Collette
Arden
Rose Byrne
Leah
Josh Brolin
Tarlow
James Franco
Derek
Bruce Davison
Leah's Father
Marcia Gay Harden
Melora
Piper Laurie
Arden's Mother
Giovanni Ribisi
Rudy
Mary Steenburgen
Beverley, Leah's Mother
Kerry Washington
Rosetta
Mary Beth Hurt
Ruth
Nick Searcy
Carl
Carla Jimenez
Ashley's Caretaker
The Dead Girl Reviews
Seattle Times
Moira MacDonald
Those who pass on The Dead Girl are missing something. Moncrieff has assembled a remarkable (and mostly female) cast, and there are moments in this film that are as powerful as anything currently in theaters.
Houston Chronicle
Amy Biancolli
All Screams aside, movies about serial killing are rarely chipper affairs. But few are as glum as The Dead Girl.
Chicago Reader
Jonathan Rosenbaum
Seeing multiple responses to a sexually motivated murder allows us to reconsider our understanding of sex crimes.
Chicago Tribune
Michael Phillips
A stern account of how the brutal murder of a young woman affects an array of far-flung characters.
Atlanta Journal-Constitution
Eleanor Ringel Cater
Karen Moncrieff's previous film, the shallow and pretentious Blue Car, in no way prepares you for this superbly acted, emotionally acute picture.
Chicago Sun-Times
Teresa Budasi
The use of multiple plots can be a dangerous exercise if not skillfully executed, making viewers feel cheated and wanting more, but Moncrieff works it out, ably shifting from one story to the next and keeping us satisfied with the open-ended outcomes.
San Francisco Chronicle
Mick LaSalle
It must be said that The Dead Girl is a film of considerable integrity. But before that, something else must be said: That's about as unappetizing an opening to a film as can be imagined.
New York Daily News
Jack Mathews
Works like a package of crisp, individual psychological profiles of the women whose already troubled lives are disrupted by the murder.
Entertainment Weekly
Owen Gleiberman
Moncrieff (Blue Car) pushes a view of women as victims that might create its own pornography of masochism if it didn't touch so many authentic shattered nerve endings.
New York Post
Kyle Smith
Occasionally the movie manages to achieve a real sadness, but some story lines are forced.
Austin Chronicle
Marjorie Baumgarten
The Dead Girl is bleak, sad, and depressing -- which is exactly what [director] Moncrieff intends it to be.
MovieFreak.com
Sara Michelle Fetters
For those hungry to see a talented young independent filmmaker continue to stretch and to push her talents in new, intriguing dimensions than this is a film impossible to either ignore or to dismiss.
The New Yorker
Richard Brody
The film is visually passive, and the score is portentous. Even so, these lapses don't break the spell of honest feeling or blur the hard-won wisdom that emerges from the experience.
Associated Press
Christy Lemire
Moncrieff never gets melodramatic with subject matter that easily could have been; she won't make you feel good, but she will make you feel.
UGO
Brian Tallerico
The Dead Girl is an ambitious, unusual drama, and it's the kind of script that actors kill for, giving them rich, three-dimensional parts that they only have to play for a small amount of time, allowing for full emotional impact.
Wall Street Journal
Joe Morgenstern
The Dead Girl has such a glacial pace, and with such tonal monotony -- most of the first 20 minutes are either grim, in the dark or both -- that audiences will follow at their peril.
Observer
Andrew Sarris
Ms. Moncrieff's ambitious second film is a bit of a disappointment after the promise shown in her more tightly structured debut effort, Blue Car.
Los Angeles Times
Kevin Crust
If the segments are uneven, Moncrieff -- with the help of her excellent cast -- nevertheless crafts a gripping overall narrative that exposes a shared dissonance among the protagonists.
New York Times
Stephen Holden
The relentless emotional violence in this film, a compendium of five vignettes related to a young woman whose corpse is discovered on a hillside, is of a level rarely found in movies.
Village Voice
Jim Ridley
The chief problem with The Dead Girl, as with most current multipart films, is that the truncated stories don't give actors much room to develop a part. They're on-screen for such a short time that they act furiously from the get-go.
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