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Original title: Girl Next Door, The Directed by
Luke Greenfield Written by
David Wagner, Brent Goldberg Cast
Emile Hirsch, Elisha Cuthbert, Timothy Olyphant, James Remar, Chris Marquette [more]
Release Date
• USA: Apr 9, 2004
• UK: 16 Apr 2004
DVD Release Date
• R1: Aug 24, 2004
• R2: 9 Aug 2004
BoxOffice: $14.5M
Official Website:
The Girl Next Door Website
MPAA Rating
Rated R for strong sexual content, language and some drug/alcohol use.
Running Time
1 hour, 50 minutes
Country USA
Studio Charles Gordon, Harry Gittes, New Regency Pictures
More info on IMDb.com
Other Titles
• The Girl Next Door (2004)
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The Girl Next Door Reviews |
It's a startling idea that you can watch a youth comedy that contains considerable sexual content, drug use and violence, and think of it as a cut above the norm. But there it is. "Girl" is an entertaining affair whose wild-card creativity never ceases to surprise. [read review]
--Desson Thomson (Washington Post)
THE GIRL NEXT DOOR isn't your average teen gross-out comedy with tits, ass, sex, beer and drugs but a sweeter, kinder and more importantly, more original movie that dares to take time to develop its two lead characters with real moments, while at the same time, dropping plenty of humor into its raunchy bucket in order to keep the laughs chugging along all the way to the end. [read review] 7/10
--'JoBlo' (JoBlo.com)
So, despite what you might think, The Girl Next Door is more than just a pretty face with some raunchy jokes (although pretty faces and raunchy jokes do abound). Director Luke Greenfield, along with the writers, do a great job with this caring but amusing story and the stars of the film really shine. [read review] 7/10
--W. Andrew Powell (The Gate.ca)
The movie also makes great use of classic rock songs and when you combine this with the story's heartfelt core, we're almost in Cameron Crowe territory. "The Girl Next Door" is as funny as Elisha Cuthbert is sexy, and that's saying a lot! [read review] 
--Kevin N. Laforest (Montreal Film Journal)
The Girl Next Door features an attractive, likeable cast, a decent script and some very funny gags – if you’re fifteen years old and male, there’s every chance that you might think this is The Greatest Movie Ever Made. [read review] 
--Matthew Turner (ViewLondon)
The Girl Next Door builds up enough good will during its successful first half that we're willing to forgive some of the strange and disappointing convolutions the plot takes us through during the final 45 minutes. [read review] 
--James Berardinelli (ReelViews)
This is a wonderful movie for everyone, with star-making performances by Marquette and Hirsch, and a breakthrough performance from Cuthbert that will likely do for her what Clueless did for Alicia Silverstone. [read review] 
--Brian Gallagher (MovieWeb)
In the end, The Girl Next Door isn't much more than an extended E! True Hollywood Story, far tamer than some viewers might be expecting in its depiction, nevertheless compelling, of life in the porn biz. [read review] 
--Sarah Hepola (Austin Chronicle)
A plucky teen sex comedy that exceeds its navel-gazing marketing campaign, The Girl Next Door is also a fairly accurate reflection of these confused times for America, that legendary prude. [read review]
--Kimberley Jones (Austin Chronicle)
But despite all of the film’s faults, enough to rip Girl to pieces, I actually enjoyed the movie enough to recommend it! I was pleasantly surprised with how often it made me laugh [read review]
--David Levine (FilmCritic.com)
Its own feverish confusion, that is, may be an accurate reflection of a social landscape that includes both abstinence-only sex education and ''Girls Gone Wild.'' [read review]
--A.O. Scott (The New York Times)
...a dishonest, quease-inducing "comedy" that had me feeling uneasy and then unclean. Who in the world read this script and thought it was acceptable? [read review] 
--Roger Ebert (Chicago Sun-Times)
The Girl Next Door is an entrancing treasure of a film with the ability to touch you deeply, make you roll with laughter, smile with joy, and feel. [read review] 
--Dustin Putman (The Movie Insider)
The Girl Next Door is a pleasant surprise, funny and sweet, yet far more sexy and daring than your average high school or college gross-out comedy. [read review] 76/100
--Brian Webster (Apollo Guide)
'THE Girl Next Door" is a teen sex- ploitation comedy that updates "Risky Business" for the Jenna Jameson era of mainstreamed pornography [read review] 
--Jonathan Foreman (New York Post)
Don't call it a teen flick. This story of a boy and the porn actress next door takes itself too seriously for that. [read review]
--Charles Taylor (Salon)
Opposites attract in this nimble comedy that transcends teen-pic formulas. [read review]
--Sheri Linden (Hollywod Reporter)
About as realistic as, erm - an episode of '24'. But bags of fun with it. [read review] 7/10
--Gary Panton (Movie Gazette)
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