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The Girl Next Door

R Released Feb 18, 2004 1h 48m Romance Comedy List
56% Tomatometer 160 Reviews 69% Popcornmeter 250,000+ Ratings
Eighteen-year-old Matthew Kidman (Emile Hirsch) is a straight-arrow overachiever who has never really lived life... until he falls for his new neighbor, the beautiful and seemingly innocent Danielle (Elisha Cuthbert). When Matthew discovers this perfect girl next door is a one-time porn star, his sheltered existence begins to spin out of control. Ultimately, Danielle helps Matthew emerge from his shell and discover that sometimes you have to risk everything for the person you love.
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The movie borrows heavily from Risky Business, though Hirsch and Cuthbert are appealing leads.

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Antonia Quirke London Evening Standard This is not entirely your average greasy teen movie, and frequently manages to be quite funny, and ambivalent, about vicious competitiveness at US high schools and sickly, sex-saturated modern life. Dec 18, 2017 Full Review Nell Minow Common Sense Media Stunningly bad teen sex comedy. Rated: 1/5 Dec 28, 2010 Full Review Nick Schager Lessons of Darkness Essentially Risky Business for the 21st century, and I don't mean that as a compliment. Rated: C- May 3, 2005 Full Review James Croot Stuff.co.nz Stalling about an hour in, the movie tries to squeeze way too much juice out of a single premise, ending up at least 20 minutes too long, ploddingly predictable, devoid of any humour and with countless serious lapses in logic and taste. Rated: 2/5 Jun 14, 2023 Full Review Debbie Lynn Elias Behind The Lens Despite the nudity and sexual hi-jinx, Girl Next Door is a creative delight with surprising insight and honesty that will make you laugh, make you smile and most of all, make you feel, all at the same time. Nov 7, 2019 Full Review Cole Smithey ColeSmithey.com The writing team of "National Lampoon's Van Wilder" crafted it as a satire about conflicting levels of sexual experience among teens, but fail to connect the significance of erotic pleasure to the emotional demands of budding adults. Rated: D+ May 4, 2009 Full Review Read all reviews

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Kirill M «В основе сценария лежит история одного из создателей фильма, случившаяся с ним на заре его юности.» — вера в эту жизнь стала чуточку больше. Rated 3 out of 5 stars 10/05/24 Full Review Ibrahim F Literally This was one of the best movies I have ever seen in my life despite all those adult scenes, plot was really amazing and creative. Although the length of movie was too much but still it's was really unpredictable and amazing. Actors were great and Casting was Amazing. This was the first movie of my life I wanted to watch again after seeing it lol. Rated 5 out of 5 stars 09/28/24 Full Review Ciaran S The Girl Next Door is a surprisingly good movie a good story, good writing, likeable characters on top of a nice message on education about sex. While this movie might not be the greatest sex movie of all time like "Boogie Nights" or "Knocked Up" however it certainly is the better looking ones. Rated 4 out of 5 stars 09/22/24 Full Review Andres S Female lead carried the movie with her looks. Bad acting overall. Especially the scene where he lost the money in the bank. Obviously in the real world the teller is fired, regardless of what. Rated 1 out of 5 stars 09/19/24 Full Review Tim M More mature than a teen sex comedy would have you think, The Girl Next Door goes flaccid when it does feel the need to appease genre expectations. Rated 2.5 out of 5 stars 07/29/24 Full Review Leaburn O Yeah why not. It’s a bit more edgy than most teen rom-coms. Ok, it’s implausible but at least it’s more memorable than similar efforts of this era. Watched on Amazon Prime. Rated 3.5 out of 5 stars 07/15/24 Full Review Read all reviews
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Synopsis Eighteen-year-old Matthew Kidman (Emile Hirsch) is a straight-arrow overachiever who has never really lived life... until he falls for his new neighbor, the beautiful and seemingly innocent Danielle (Elisha Cuthbert). When Matthew discovers this perfect girl next door is a one-time porn star, his sheltered existence begins to spin out of control. Ultimately, Danielle helps Matthew emerge from his shell and discover that sometimes you have to risk everything for the person you love.
Director
Luke Greenfield
Producer
Harry Gittes, Charles Gordon, Marc Sternberg
Screenwriter
Luke Greenfield, Stuart Blumberg, David Wagner, Brent Goldberg
Distributor
20th Century Fox
Production Co
Regency Enterprises, Fox 2000 Pictures, Daybreak Point Entertainment, New Regency Pictures
Rating
R (Strong Sexual Content|Some Alcohol Use|Language|Some Drug Use)
Genre
Romance, Comedy
Original Language
English
Release Date (Theaters)
Feb 18, 2004, Wide
Release Date (Streaming)
Jan 1, 2014
Box Office (Gross USA)
$14.6M
Runtime
1h 48m
Sound Mix
Surround, Dolby Digital
Aspect Ratio
Flat (1.85:1)
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