Girl Haunts Boy

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Girl Haunts Boy

PG

2024

1h 40m

Fantasy

Romance

Comedy

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After the death of his father, Cole (Michael Cimino) moves with his mother to a new house in a new town to discover he's also sharing a room with the ghost of 17-year-old Bea (Peyton List), an adventurous, funny teenager from the 1920s trapped in present day and has been haunting the house since the 1920s under the curse of an ancient ring. The two lonely teens become fast friends and eventually fall in love -- but when Cole discovers a way to undo the curse, he must decide whether to keep Bea with him or let her go.

Natasha Alvar

The Fiction Department

[Girl Haunts Boy] begins simply with a girl meeting a boy, and develops into a thoughtful film about the past and its continued impact on us in the present.

Rated: 3.5/5

Nov 26, 2024

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Lindsay Press

Culturess

While the idea of interacting with ghosts may feel like it is a movie to watch more around the Halloween season, Girl Haunts Boy is a film that could be enjoyable at any point of the year.

Nov 6, 2024

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Lissete Lanuza Sáenz

Fangirlish

Ghost stories are a dime a dozen. Ghost stories that are actually about grief, about love, and about the joy that can be found, even in dark times, when someone else really, truly sees you, are very rare indeed.

Oct 29, 2024

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Stephanie Malone

Morbidly Beautiful

"Girl Haunts Boy" is a surprisingly emotional, feel-good flick with a sprinkling of spooky and a wallop of well-realized character drama. It's a cozy Fall treat eager to envelop you in its warmth and tenderness.

Rated: 3.5/5

Oct 23, 2024

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Kristen Maldonado

Pop Culture Planet

If you like your spooky movies with a more wholesome vibe, you don’t want to miss Girl Haunts Boy. Cimino anchors the ghostly romance with his charm and warmth, while List brings a free-spirited wit to her role.

Oct 22, 2024

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Tania Lamb

Lola Lambchops

Girl Haunts Boy can be slow, but List and Cimino add a lot of heart and warmth to a story that helps heal the broken.

Oct 21, 2024

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Dylan P

At one point, a character said "how do you know?" Five stars.

Rated 5 out of 5 stars

02/01/25

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Toggo U

It was great until the ending. Not sure why the director decided to go for a bittersweet ending, when it could have ended so much better.

Rated 3 out of 5 stars

01/25/25

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Tanith P

Oh my goodness!!!!! Girl Haunts Boy on Netflix is the best movie I’ve watched in years!!!! If anyone is wanting to watch something refreshing I highly recommend this movie! 💖 The preview doesn’t do this movie justice . Girl Haunts Boy is deep but light, old timey but new, paranormal but not dark or weird, and romantic but not inappropriate. Soooo good!!!!

Rated 5 out of 5 stars

01/14/25

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Omar F

Susie Q meets The Great Gastby. It’s a fun story.

Rated 4 out of 5 stars

12/29/24

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Audience Member

It's pretty mid. I liked some things, disliked others. Typically I can suspend my disbelief a bit for the sake of things like time (as in a movie you only have about 2-ish hours to tell your story), but some things in this movie just really pushed that to the point where I was kinda checked out. Normally I'd give something like this a 1 star but there is a kind of charm to it. I don't know if it's the actors or what but I found myself kinda liking it weirdly enough? To sum it up, there are worse things to watch (especially on Netflix) but there are also better things to watch.

Rated 2.5 out of 5 stars

12/15/24

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Bastian S

Bit cringe at times but pretty good

Rated 3.5 out of 5 stars

12/13/24

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Emily Ting

Director

Peyton List

Bea

Michael Cimino

Cole

Andrea Navedo

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Phoebe Holden

Actor

Brandon Michael Hall

Actor

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Synopsis

After the death of his father, Cole (Michael Cimino) moves with his mother to a new house in a new town to discover he's also sharing a room with the ghost of 17-year-old Bea (Peyton List), an adventurous, funny teenager from the 1920s trapped in present day and has been haunting the house since the 1920s under the curse of an ancient ring. The two lonely teens become fast friends and eventually fall in love -- but when Cole discovers a way to undo the curse, he must decide whether to keep Bea with him or let her go.

Director: Emily Ting
Producer: Mark Burton, Aaron Parry
Screenwriter: Cesar Vitale
Distributor: Netflix
Production Co: Fifth Season
Rating: PG
Genre: Fantasy, Romance, Comedy
Original Language: English
Release Date (Streaming): Oct 10, 2024
Runtime: 1h 40m

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