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Tuesday, April 05, 2005
The Girl Next Door
The Girl Next Door is a fairly good teen comedy about a high school senior, and his two friends, who discovers that the beautiful young woman living next door used to be an adult film actress. A porn star. The leads, including Elisha Cuthbert of "24" fame as the girl next door and young Emile Hirsch as the main protagonist, both turn in good performances. But Timothy Olyphant (now best known as Seth Bullock on the groundbreaking "Deadwood") steals the scenes he is in as an adult film producer who is trying to get the girl next door to come back to her former work.
The plot is filled with various movie cliches, a lame subplot about helping foreign student come to the county, and the obligatory happy ending, but overall the film seems to rise above the wasteland of most teen movies. I was continually reminded of Risky Business while watching this, and I think that's a good thing.
The verdict: B-.
Michael Bentley 7:54 AM
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