The Dead Girl
by Karen Moncrieff
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Actor: Toni Collette; Piper Laurie; Don Smith (XII); Michael Raysses; Earl Carroll (II); Dorothy Beatty; Eva Loseth; Giovanni Ribisi; Rose Byrne; Joanie Tomsky; James Franco; Christopher Allen Nelson; Mary Steenburgen; Bruce Davison; Kate Mulligan (III); Mary Beth Hurt; Nick Searcy; Dan Callahan; Gus Buktenica; Marcia Gay HardenDirector: Karen Moncrieff
Brand: FIRST LOOK HOME ENTERTAINMENT
DVD: Region Code 1
Audio: English (Original Language), Dolby Digital 5.1; Spanish (Subtitled)
Format: Closed-captioned, Color, Dolby, DVD-Video, NTSC, Widescreen
Picture Format: 1.33:1
Running Time: 83 minutes
DVD Release Date: 2007-05-15
Audience Rating: R (Restricted)
Studio: First Look Pictures
DVD Reviews of The Dead Girl
DVD Review: wow
Summary: 5 Stars
What immediately captivated me about this film was the spectacular lighting and cinematography. It instantly drew me in. I wanted it to be an extraordinary movie. Twenty minutes into it I seriously doubted that was going to happen.
Though the actors were brilliant, the screenplay intelligent, and the music stirring, I felt the story was disjointed. I couldn't fully get a handle on what the writer was trying to say...until it was over.
When it ended (and the ending came sooner than I wanted), as I watched the credits, listening to the eerily beautiful music, I thought about every character in the movie and how much I had been emotionally moved by nearly all of them. How much more I wanted to know about them. How strange that I felt that these people had so much more to say and at the same time I knew that they had said as much as they could.
The story wasn't disjointed, it was perfectly laid out and, yes, the film was quite extraordinary. I can't stop thinking about how amazing this would look on a live stage.
The Dead Girl needs to be watched twice, at least. Be careful though, it has the ability to suck you down into dark places that aren't so easy to climb out of.
You have been warned. Proceed with caution
DVD Review: wasted life
Summary: 4 Stars
I loved this movie, it had so many different characters just crying out for help/understanding.DVD Review: Beautifully written, deep plot, amazing cast!!!!
Summary: 5 Stars
"The Dead Girl" is one of the most amazing films I've ever seen. It combines elements from American Beauty and Pulp Fiction but manages to maintain a style all its own.
The 5-6 subplots are intricately woven to surprise and touch the audience. My wife and I LOVED this movie for its ingenuiety and mystery. Marcia Gay Harden offers a particularly moving performance, as do Collette Black and Brittany Murphy.
DVD Review: Excellent Story of a Sad Tale of Murder.
Summary: 5 Stars
Brittany Murphy is so good in good roles. In 8 Mile, she was a great love interest, in this movie, she and the entire case (Collette) are stupendous. What grips you is the way this story is told, knowing the ending before then end, and the truth in pieces. This is a great movie, we need more like it. DVD Review: A Unique Story
Summary: 4 Stars
This film, divided into 5 separate stories about a murder, begins with the discovery of a mangled woman in a field. The lonely woman who finds the body is abruptly liberated from her drab existence. The forensic examiner too is liberated from her own demons after her examination of the body. The toughest story to take, for this reviewer, is the tale of the murderer's wife who cannot bring herself to report the crimes she knows her husband committed despite her unpleasant life with him - she will enable him to continue his miserable activities - a baffling & disturbing enigma. The mother of the victim fearlessly seeks the truth about her troubled, lost daughter's life including the shocking discovery of why the girl left home in the first place. Above all the best segment is the last... the actual experiences of the victim during her last days alive.
A well acted, dark & mysterious movie... a bit depressing yet there are small rays of hope. The story's ending is not quite "wrapped up"... nothing's finalized, but rather what happens next is left for the viewer to imagine.
Not good to view if you're looking for something uplifting - it shows too much of the seamy side of life. A good movie if you want a unique murder mystery.
Description of The Dead Girl
Krista s body is found by Arden (Toni Collette) a lonesome caretaker living with her irascible mother (Piper Laurie). This leads to Leah (Rose Byrne) a forensics graduate student whose sister went missing as a child stumbling upon possible closure when Krista s body appears on her gurney. The story continues with Ruth (Mary Beth Hurt) who in the midst of a long and intense love/hate relationship with her husband (Nick Searcy) discovers a disturbing connection between her husband and Krista s murder. Finally Melora (Marcia Gay Harden) is a mother searching for answers about her runaway daughter Krista s troubled life and finds help in her quest from another troubled young woman (Kerry Washington).Run Time: 94 min.Format: DVD MOVIE Genre:?MYSTERY/SUSPENSE Rating:?R UPC:?687797116093 Manufacturer No:?FLP-11609Director Karen Moncrieff has created short vignettes to show how one murder can affect a plethora of people both related and unrelated to the victim, in her chilling feature, The Dead Girl. The film unfolds with quiet repose, like a series of photographs, as the viewer learns from various points of view how Krista (Brittany Murphy) was murdered, and by whom. Opening with the most disparately related segments, the viewer meets Arden (Toni Colette), slave to her abusive mother (Piper Laurie). Arden, full of hatred that manifests as self-mutilation, is equally scarred by her discovery of Krista's body. Next, we witness Krista's grad-student sister, who, with her knowledge of forensics, combs cadavers for physical clues to find her missing sister's body. The second half of the film is more affecting, with better pacing and more pointed plot, since one sees the motivations behind the serial killer's crime, and later, Krista's mother's devotion to solving the mystery. As the victim's mother meets Krista's old friend, Ashley, and discovers the she left a daughter behind as legacy, there is a sense of rebirth that feels satisfyingly redemptive. The Dead Girl's cinematography reinforces the pervading melancholy so completely that the film itself begins to symbolically represent Krista's dead body. --Trinie Dalton
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