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Girlfight

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Original title

Girlfight

Year

2000

Running time

110 min.

Country

United States

Director

Karyn Kusama

Screenwriter

Karyn Kusama

Cast

Music

Theodore Shapiro, Gene McDaniels

Cinematography

Patrick Cady

Producer

The Independent Film Channel, Green/Renzi. Distributor: Screen Gems, Sony Pictures

Genre

Drama | Sports. Boxing. Independent Film (US)

Synopsis

18 years old Diana has a chip on her shoulder; she's close to expulsion from high school for fighting, her mother is dead, her dad is surly, the popular girls at school set her teeth on edge, she knows men can cause pain. When she picks up her younger brother at a Brooklyn gym where he boxes to please his father, she decides she wants to train. Hector, a coach, reluctantly agrees to teach her. It's soon clear to him that Diana has talent; he pushes her. She spends time with another young fighter, Adrian, who has a girlfriend, but Diana intrigues him and stirs real feelings he tries to articulate. She, too, must accommodate her toughness and ironic detachment to her feelings for him.

Awards: 2000: Sundance Film Festival: Best Movie (ex-aequo), Best Director

2000: Cannes Film Festival: Directors' Fortnight (Quinzaine des Réalisateurs): Youth Award

2000: Valladolid Film Festival - Seminci: Best Director

2000: National Board of Review (NBR): Won Special Recognition Award (for excellence in filmaking)

2000: Independent Spirit Awards: Best Debut Performance (Rodriguez). 2 Nominations

2000: Chicago Film Critics Awards: Nominated for Most Promising Actress (Rodriguez)

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Critics' reviews

"A powerful and empathetic melodrama with feminist underpinnings"

Kenneth Turan: Los Angeles Times
"Refreshing and surprising, the way independent movies are supposed to be."
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Jonathan Foreman: New York Post
"A strong, stinging film, alive with conflicts that defy glib resolutions."

Peter Travers: Rolling Stone
"Blends in a most satisfying manner the conventions of several genres, resulting in a coherent picture that is at once a poignant inner-city drama, a rousing sports movie, an emotional family yarn and, above all, a sweet romance"

Emanuel Levy: Variety
"The movie belongs to Rodriguez: A gorgeous woman with a powerful body and the face of an Aztec princess, she's also a natural talent who instinctively understands the importance of economy in good acting."

Edward Guthmann: SFGATE
"Uplifting and moving in a traditional Hollywood way, while also seeming as raw and unfiltered as cinema vérité."

Jami Bernard: New York Daily News

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Girlfight

2000

Karyn Kusama

6.0

(566)