Skater Girl

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Skater Girl

PG

2021

1h 49m

Drama

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Skater Girl is a coming-of-age story about confidence, courage, and the profound impact of blazing your own trail. Set in a remote village in Rajasthan, India, the film follows Prerna (Rachel Saanchita Gupta in her debut performance), a local teen living a life bound by tradition and duty to her parents. But when London-bred advertising executive Jessica (Amy Maghera) arrives in the village to learn more about her late father's childhood, Prerna and the other local children are introduced to an exciting new adventure thanks to Jessica and her old friend (Jonathan Readwin) who cruises into town on a skateboard. The kids become infatuated with the sport, skating through the village, disrupting everything and everyone around them. Determined to empower and encourage their newfound passion, Jessica sets out on an uphill battle to build the kids their own skatepark, leaving Prerna with a difficult choice between conforming to society's expectations of her or living out her dream of competing in the National Skateboarding Championships.

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Amy Nicholson

Variety

There will be no kick-flipping of clichés in Makijany's script. What's novel are simply her images of Prerna - whose name means "inspiration" - zipping through her village's curved alleyways and dusty marketplace

Rated: C+

Jul 1, 2021

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Roxana Hadadi

Pajiba

Skater Girl might be a push toward following your dreams, but the end result is a movie that feels more driven by delivering good intentions than telling a fully realized story.

Jun 14, 2021

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Stephanie Zacharek

TIME Magazine

Skater Girl belongs to Rachel Saanchita Gupta-her face is the movie's heartbeat.

Jun 14, 2021

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M.N. Miller

Ready Steady Cut

Everything about Skater Girl is the definition of feel-good, even if it struggles to regain its focus.

Rated: 3/5

Oct 9, 2022

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Aaron Neuwirth

We Live Entertainment

For an all-too-rare PG sports movie designed to inspire young women (and kids in general) to embrace their interests and find their courage, this movie does a lot right.

Rated: 6/10

Jun 23, 2021

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Proma Khosla

Mashable

What Skater Girl captures with its young leads is nothing short of magic. Scenes of the village children getting their skateboards, practicing in the park, and eventually competing in a local competition are effervescent with joy.

Jun 18, 2021

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Oleg S

Such a beautiful film! Wanted to get my Skateboard out of the cellar and start skating again after watching it.

Rated 5 out of 5 stars

01/16/23

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Audience Member

I thought it was a heart warming movie. I liked it very much.

Rated 5 out of 5 stars

01/25/23

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Audience Member

Not a true story but comes from research on skate boarding in India. Film crew made and donated the largest skate board park in India

Rated 5 out of 5 stars

02/06/23

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Audience Member

There's so much wrong with this movie! It was written by two Indian women and still gets so much of the cukture wrong. It villifies Indian culture and paints Western culture as the right way. The movie has a great underlying story that got tainted by having the two white saviors... I come from a poor country and a poor household and that was in part my story with skateboarding... Without the white saviors!!! The movie is also sexist when it tries to highlight women empowerment... It tries to do too many things and it fails at it all. It's sad how much it villifies a foreign culture simply because it is seen from the lens of Western standards.... It's too white washed

Rated 1.5 out of 5 stars

01/18/23

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luca j

The lead young girl is ace. This feels like a total rip-off of the short documentary film 'Kamali' (2018), but with scenes being totally butchered, and the westerner's playing far too big a role than is appropriate. Since watching it I found out it is based on Asha Gond's story, however Asha has not received any credit for this (went down from a 1.5* to 1* after learning that.) The western actors were appalling - the film has a white saviour complex that is cringey at best (more like tone deaf without any self-awareness). Almost every Indian adult in the film is horrible and the children seem to play the part of the demonstrating how kind the westerners are with their disposable income (despite the horrible adult natives...), it appeared so 'self-serving' that I would've guessed the director was one of the western actors - I was surprised she is not. The lead young girl is ace though.

Rated 1 out of 5 stars

03/31/23

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greg r

Simply wonderful. Beautifully filmed and scored.

Rated 4 out of 5 stars

03/31/23

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Skater Girl is a coming-of-age story about confidence, courage, and the profound impact of blazing your own trail. Set in a remote village in Rajasthan, India, the film follows Prerna (Rachel Saanchita Gupta in her debut performance), a local teen living a life bound by tradition and duty to her parents. But when London-bred advertising executive Jessica (Amy Maghera) arrives in the village to learn more about her late father's childhood, Prerna and the other local children are introduced to an exciting new adventure thanks to Jessica and her old friend (Jonathan Readwin) who cruises into town on a skateboard. The kids become infatuated with the sport, skating through the village, disrupting everything and everyone around them. Determined to empower and encourage their newfound passion, Jessica sets out on an uphill battle to build the kids their own skatepark, leaving Prerna with a difficult choice between conforming to society's expectations of her or living out her dream of competing in the National Skateboarding Championships.

Director: Manjari Makijany
Producer: Manjari Makijany, Vinati Makijany, Emmanuel Pappas
Screenwriter: Manjari Makijany, Vinati Makijany
Production Co: MAC Productions, Skatepark Films
Rating: PG (Thematic Material)
Genre: Drama
Original Language: English
Release Date (Streaming): Jun 11, 2021
Runtime: 1h 49m

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