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The Girl

  • TV Movie
  • 20122012
  • TV-14TV-14
  • 1h 31m
IMDb RATING
6.2/10
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Toby Jones and Sienna Miller in The Girl (2012)
BiographyDrama
The turbulent relationship between filmmaker Sir Alfred Hitchcock (Toby Jones) and actress Tippi Hedren (Sienna Miller).The turbulent relationship between filmmaker Sir Alfred Hitchcock (Toby Jones) and actress Tippi Hedren (Sienna Miller).The turbulent relationship between filmmaker Sir Alfred Hitchcock (Toby Jones) and actress Tippi Hedren (Sienna Miller).
IMDb RATING
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7.1K
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    • Julian Jarrold
    • Gwyneth Hughes
    • Donald Spoto(book "Spellbound by Beauty: Alfred Hitchcock and his Leading Ladies")
  • Stars
    • Sienna Miller
    • Toby Jones
    • Imelda Staunton
    • Julian Jarrold
    • Gwyneth Hughes
    • Donald Spoto(book "Spellbound by Beauty: Alfred Hitchcock and his Leading Ladies")
  • Stars
    • Sienna Miller
    • Toby Jones
    • Imelda Staunton
  • See production, box office & company info
    • 63User reviews
    • 52Critic reviews
  • See production, box office & company info
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    • Nominated for 6 Primetime Emmys

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    Toby Jones and Sienna Miller in The Girl (2012)
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    Sienna Miller
    Sienna Miller
    • Tippi Hedren
    Toby Jones
    Toby Jones
    • Alfred Hitchcock
    Imelda Staunton
    Imelda Staunton
    • Alma Reville Hitchcock
    Conrad Kemp
    Conrad Kemp
    • Evan Hunter
    Penelope Wilton
    Penelope Wilton
    • Peggy Robertson
    Angelina Ingpen
    • Melanie
    Candice D'Arcy
    • Josephine Milton
    Carl Beukes
    Carl Beukes
    • Jim Brown
    Kate Tilley
    • Rita Riggs
    Aubrey Shelton
    • Maitre D
    Leon Clingman
    • Ray Berwick
    Patrick Lyster
    • Bob Boyle
    Adrian Galley
    Adrian Galley
    • Martin Balsam
    • (uncredited)
    Louis Joubert
    • Reporter
    • (uncredited)
    Leon Kowalski
    • Photographer
    • (uncredited)
    Sean Cameron Michael
    Sean Cameron Michael
    • Robert Burks
    • (uncredited)
    Carel Nel
    Carel Nel
    • Clapper Loader
    • (uncredited)
      • Julian Jarrold
      • Gwyneth Hughes
      • Donald Spoto(book "Spellbound by Beauty: Alfred Hitchcock and his Leading Ladies")
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    • Trivia
      The widow of James H. Brown, Sir Alfred Hitchcock's assistant on The Birds (1963) and Marnie (1964), has insisted that the depiction of her husband in this movie is inaccurate and that the information her husband gave to Screenwriter Gwyneth Hughes in an interview before he died in 2011, was either ignored or distorted. His remarks to Hughes on the subject of Sir Alfred Hitchcock had been, in reality, entirely admiring and complimentary. Mrs. Brown has attacked this movie savagely as an insult to a great artist.
    • Goofs
      In this film, Alfred Hitchcock is seen proposing a toast to "Alfie and Tippi". In reality, Hitchcock never called himself "Alfie", and never liked to be called either "Alfie" or "Alfred"; he was always called "Hitch", at his own insistence.
    • Quotes

      Alfred Hitchcock: There was a young man from Nantucket / Who had such a large cock he could suck it. / He looked in the glass / And saw his own arse / And broke his neck trying to fuck it.

    • Connections
      Featured in 70th Golden Globe Awards (2013)
    • Soundtracks
      Tristan And Isolde: Act I Prelude
      Written by Richard Wagner

      Performed by Daniel Barenboim (as Daniel Baranboim)

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    8/10
    Getting Hitched
    Wow! Is that really what happened? In many biographies about Alfred Hitchcock, the most Tippi Hedren ever said about the incident when Alfred Hitchcock supposedly propositioned her was, "Demands were made of me that I could not acquiesce to." But in "The Girl", Toby Jones' Hitchcock puts it right out there when he says to Sienna Miller's Tippi Hedren, "From now on, I want you to make yourself sexually available to me at all times. Whatever I want you to do, whenever I want you to do it."

    Possibly it happened that way, Tippi Hedren seems to have been consulted by the filmmakers. My feeling is that where there was that much smoke there had to be fire, but just how fair is "The Girl"?

    The movie is nothing less than interesting. Toby Jones is amazing, and Sienna Miller more than holds her own, but opinion over the film is divided. On one side are those outraged that Hitchcock's reputation has been besmirched without a chance to defend himself, while on the other are those outraged at what Hitchcock appears to have done to Tippi Hedren.

    "The Girl" relates how Alfred Hitchcock groomed the inexperienced Hedren to star in "The Birds" and "Marnie". During the process, Hitchcock changed from mentor to monster becoming totally obsessed with her. Eventually he made an overt sexual advance. She refused and that was the end of the relationship.

    One scene in "The Girl" does undermine it. It's the somewhat salacious screen test where Hitchcock asks Hedren to give Martin Balsam a long lingering kiss. Unfortunately for the makers of "The Girl", the actual test clip is fairly well known from documentaries and YouTube, and is a lot less threatening than the recreation. In reality, Balsam and Hedren actually seem quite comfortable with each other. It was silly to overdo a scene that is so accessible; it leaves you wondering how much over-egging went on with the rest of the custard.

    The difference between Hedren and Hitchcock's other leading ladies was that they were better able to handle him. Most were established stars, surrounded by husbands, boyfriends and agents, but Hedren didn't have all that; she was just starting out and was far more vulnerable.

    According to some sources, it was about this time that Hitchcock's judgement also seemed to be slipping. The suppressed voyeuristic tendencies and fantasies that helped inform his great films were taking on a harder edge. He now wanted to be explicit in what he showed.

    Up until then, the Motion Picture Production Code kept him in check. Would films like "Rear Window", "Vertigo" or even "Psycho" be the enduring classics they are today if Hitchcock had been allowed to go all the way? The censor made him innovative and subtle. However, by the late 60's the Code was gone. No one ever ranks 1972's "Frenzy" among his greatest movies; plenty of rape and nudity on display there. Fortunately he never made "Kaleidoscope"; with what he had planned, it could have been a real legend killer.

    As far as "The Girl" is concerned, maybe it's best to just enjoy the show. Toby Jones' Hitchcock is even better than his Truman Capote, genius really, the voice is perfect, and Sienna Miller is so beautiful that you can believe that a fat, old auteur could harbour a fantasy or two about her. But maybe the last words on the subject could be the classic line Hitchcock once directed at an actor who was getting a bit too worked up about things, "Don't worry, it's only a movie".
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    • Release date
      • October 20, 2012 (United States)
      • United Kingdom
      • South Africa
      • United States
      • Germany
      • English
    • Also known as
      • South Africa
    • Production companies
      • Wall to Wall Media
      • Warner Bros.
      • Moonlighting Films
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    • 1 hour 31 minutes
      • Color
      • Dolby Digital

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