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The Girl

  • 20122012
  • PG-13PG-13
  • 1h 35m
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6.2/10
1.3K
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The Girl (2012)
A single mother struggling to regain custody of her son is presented with an opportunity to smuggle immigrants over the U.S./Mexico border. Soon, she finds herself looking out for a young girl whose mother has disappeared, and helping her retrace the steps of her journey from southern Mexico.
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A young Texan mother who loses her child to foster care begins smuggling Mexicans across the border.A young Texan mother who loses her child to foster care begins smuggling Mexicans across the border.A young Texan mother who loses her child to foster care begins smuggling Mexicans across the border.
IMDb RATING
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  • Director
    • David Riker
  • Writer
    • David Riker
  • Stars
    • Abbie Cornish
    • Geoffrey Rivas
    • Austin West
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  • Director
    • David Riker
  • Writer
    • David Riker
  • Stars
    • Abbie Cornish
    • Geoffrey Rivas
    • Austin West
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    • 13User reviews
    • 19Critic reviews
    • 54Metascore
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    • Awards
      • 2 wins & 1 nomination

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    Abbie Cornish
    Abbie Cornish
    • Ashley
    Geoffrey Rivas
    Geoffrey Rivas
    • Manager
    Austin West
    • Georgie
    • (as Austin Wayne West)
    Annalee Jefferies
    Annalee Jefferies
    • Gloria
    Will Patton
    Will Patton
    • Tommy
    Giovanna Zacarías
    Giovanna Zacarías
    • Enriqueta
    Luci Christian
    Luci Christian
    • Sally
    Harold Torres
    Harold Torres
    • Isidro
    Javier Zaragoza
    • Felix
    Abel Lopez Marroquin
    • Pancho
    Ángeles Cruz
    • Rosa's Mother
    • (as Angeles Cruz)
    Maritza Santiago Hernandez
    • Rosa
    Raúl Castillo
    Raúl Castillo
    • Border Agent
    Hanne Jiménez Turcott
    • Waitress
    Heber Garnica
    • Car Wash Man
    Joaquín Maldonado Bolaños
    • Cheko
    Palemon Olmedo
    • Jesus Antonio
    Magdalena Heredia
    • Migrant Mother
    • Director
      • David Riker
    • Writer
      • David Riker
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    • Trivia
      Emily Blunt was attached to the project but dropped out due to scheduling conflicts. Abbie Cornish was later cast.
    • Quotes

      [last lines]

      Ashley: [to Rosa] I'm going to miss you.

    • Soundtracks
      My Sweet Annette
      Performed by Drive-By Truckers

      Written by Patterson Hood, Mike Cooley (as John Michael Cooley), Earl Hicks, Jason Isbell and Brad Morgan

      Published by Soul Dump Music / Razor & Tie Music Publishing

      Courtesy of New West Records

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    User reviews13

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    8/10
    The Girl (2012)
    As I started watching The Girl (2012), from the beginning scenes it absorbed me in itself, letting me lose my control over things as an outside observer but rather float inside the story observing it directly as a third person inside the screen; I enjoyed that very much. Abbie Cornish portraits elegance and delicacy of a woman in this movie as she did in Bright Star (2009) prior to this, and features perfect sense of motherhood as she did in Candy (2006) in the scene of miscarrying the baby, but here more sophisticated. She plays Ashley, a single mother who is in danger of losing her nearly five year old son named Georgie to a woman named Gloria who can't have kids and at the moment is fostering him and according to Ashley has a plan of adopting him like the two other kids that she has already fostered and then adopted. She is from San Antonio-Texas. She can't afford a proper house and lives in a trailer. Her salary is so low and the raise she was supposed to get after three months working in a convenience store which now is turning to a year, was dismissed; "You didn't get a raise because of your attitude", says Mr. Chavez, the manager. But as the movie goes on we find out that she has no attitude and is so modest and responsible. Ashley has no money and to win in the court, she has to prove to CPS (Child Protective Services) that she is eligible to take care of her son. In a surprise visit, Ashley's father shows up on her door step and when he finds her daughter sad asks her to go and celebrate with him in Mexico. He even goes further and gives her money to buy her son a set swing claiming that he's been on lucky street in his work but later she finds that her dad is a human trafficker. In spite of despising her father for that, in an act of desperation, Ashley starts trafficking Mexicans to Austin-Texas herself. She is a beginner and doesn't know that in order to cross the river they will need inner tubes which leads to the loss of Rosa's mother, a stubborn young girl who blames Ashley for loss of her mother and claims searching for her. Looking through the drown people in police station, Ashley finds out that Rosa's mother is dead which makes her to feel more responsible for the girl. Her maternal sense doesn't allow her to hand the girl over to the strangers. She even tries to postpone her court to find her family. Rosa has no family but a grandmother in the middle of nowhere in a beautiful mountain land. I never knew Mexico had such an amazing green landscapes; it seemed a trip to heaven for me. There are scenes of desperation and poverty in the movie which made me sympathize with the Latino America, but no sympathy seems better than splitting out the word "God damn" which Ashley did after she took a through look around and saw the misery in people's looks. Ashley smokes a lot and in her definition of "Stressed" she regards it as one of being adult effects. That may be true in some senses. Her face though, is a dictionary of the word, "Stress". However, most of the times she manages it in a wise manner with her responsible choices and acceptance. Inner struggles of a mother with her conscience over a responsibility of a child and trying to win her own child back has perfectly, beautifully, and purely been pictured in this movie and what is the most mind capturing feature is combining it with natural sounds around and sometimes letting silence tell the story which is what David Riker as the director has certainly been successful at.
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    • Release date
      • December 6, 2013 (Mexico)
    • Countries of origin
      • United States
      • Mexico
    • Official sites
      • Official Facebook
      • Official site
    • Languages
      • Spanish
      • English
    • Also known as
      • Kad kojoti plaču
    • Filming locations
      • Nuevo Laredo, Tamaulipas, Mexico
    • Production companies
      • Journeyman Pictures
      • Axiom Films
      • Goldcrest Pictures
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    • Gross US & Canada
      • $35,048
    • Opening weekend US & Canada
      • $11,164
      • Mar 10, 2013
    • Gross worldwide
      • $35,048
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    • Runtime
      1 hour 35 minutes
    • Color
      • Color
    • Sound mix
      • Dolby Digital

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