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Dead Girl (The)
- Director: Karen Moncrieff
- Writer: Karen Moncrieff
- Producer: Eric Karten; Gary Lucchesi
CGiii Comment
There's no faulting the direction - in fact, Moncrieff is someone to watch - destiny predicts great things.
There is no faulting the performances - intense, plausible and uncomfortable.
The misery in this film is a little problematic - with no respite, Moncrieff takes us from one gloomy situation straight right into another.
Cheerless...but, impressive.
Trailer...
The(ir) Blurb...
In Los Angeles, a story about a dead girl, told in five chapters. A woman, miserable in her circumscribed life caring for her domineering mother, finds a body. Somehow, this discovery allows her to change. At the morgue, the sister of a girl missing for 15 years believes the body is that of her sister; this liberates her. An older woman, married to a man who pays her little attention, finds evidence in a storage unit; how will she handle it? The mother of the dead girl, who left home some years before, visits the last place her daughter lived and makes her own discoveries. Last, we flash back to the victim's final day.
Cast & Characters
Toni Collette as Arden;
Piper Laurie as Arden's Mother;
Don Smith as Cop #1;
Michael Raysses as Cop #2;
Earl Carroll as Reporter;
Dorothy Beatty as Grocery Checker;
Eva Loseth as Grocery Store Customer;
Giovanni Ribisi as Rudy;
Rose Byrne as Leah;
Joanie Tomsky as Therapist;
James Franco as Derek;
Christopher Allen Nelson as Murray;
Mary Steenburgen as Beverley, Leah's Mother;
Bruce Davison as Leah's Father;
Kate Mulligan as Party Girl