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Tout pour cette fille

Original title: Whirlygirl
  • 2006
  • R
  • 1h 35m
IMDb RATING
5.6/10
1.4K
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Monet Mazur in Tout pour cette fille (2006)
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A studious student finds adventure when he follows a mysterious woman to New York.A studious student finds adventure when he follows a mysterious woman to New York.A studious student finds adventure when he follows a mysterious woman to New York.

  • Director
    • Jim Wilson
  • Writer
    • Pete McCormack
  • Stars
    • Monet Mazur
    • Julian Morris
    • J.A.Q.
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  • IMDb RATING
    5.6/10
    1.4K
    YOUR RATING
    • Director
      • Jim Wilson
    • Writer
      • Pete McCormack
    • Stars
      • Monet Mazur
      • Julian Morris
      • J.A.Q.
    • 15User reviews
    • 4Critic reviews
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    Monet Mazur
    Monet Mazur
    • Whirlygirl
    Julian Morris
    Julian Morris
    • James
    J.A.Q.
    J.A.Q.
    • Raoul
    Johnny Pruitt
    • David
    Fran Kranz
    Fran Kranz
    • Freddie
    Rob Sullivan
    • Mr. McTavish
    Roderick Pannell
    • Eddie
    Woody Boley
    • Monty
    Daniel Franzese
    Daniel Franzese
    • Big Clive
    Leon Addison Brown
    • Spider
    David Garrison
    David Garrison
    • Roger
    Fiona Hutchison
    • James' Mother
    Malachy Cleary
    Malachy Cleary
    • Headmaster
    Lisa Altomare
    • Cab Dispatcher
    Kasey Campbell
    • Evan
    Hannah Feldner-Shaw
    • Marianne
    Jim Farnum
    • English Professor
    Ben Glass
    • Major
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    3meaninglessbark

    Decently Crafted Mediocrity

    Whirlygirl isn't terrible, but it's definitely not memorable. (It's not even engaging, had I not been working on some tedious hand tasks while it was on I would have shut it off.)

    If I were 14 I might have thought Whirlygirl was pretty swell. At its core the film is essentially the standard fantasy storyline of a plain boy's life being transformed by an encounter with the exotic.

    In Whirlygirl the exotic is the "whirlygirl" herself, an exotic dancer (she doesn't exactly strip) whose erotic dancing skills are legendary. (That seems a ridiculous plot device, even more so considering the film is set in contemporary times.) Boy goes after girl and adventures of one typical type and another ensue.

    The adventures in Whirlygirl never really feel all that exciting. The various self discoveries don't feel revealing. The scenes of abandoning yourself to the moment feel like imitations of better films.

    Whirlygirly doesn't feel like a story from someone's life, it feels like a film. Setup, plot device, plot device, plot device, cliché supposedly dramatic conclusion. The End.

    Despite dipping its toes into drama Whirlygirl is really just a feel good film that's not sickeningly sweet. As such it's a fine film to watch while sick on the couch or stuck in a hotel room that has free HBO.
    5Clownbaby124

    pretty good and shot at my school

    When i first saw this movie i thought it was going to suck. but i was actually surprised at the effort that the people put into making this movie. although it wasn't a very popular nor original film i still liked it. another thing i liked is how it was filmed at my school Avon Old Farms. when i was watching it, i was in my common room where one of the scened was filmed in, it was cool to see the common room being used by other people besides the school kids. this movie was a lot like "the girl next door" when i say this i mean that it had the plot involving 2 kids, a rebel teenage girl and a not-so-rebel teenage boy. the plot pretty much consists of the girl turning the boy into a rebel and the bay turning the girl into a not-so-rebel girl. like i said, it was a lot like "the girl next door" just not casted with famous people. overall its a good film, i suggest anyone who reads this should see it.
    6drbrandl

    It's been done before, but still worth your time

    It's been done before, and done before better. A year ago The Girl Next Door had most of the same concepts, themes and lessons. Studious boy meets wild girl, boy breaks the rules for the first time, girl straitens her life for the first time, they fall in love, and then what? However, the amateur writer (McCormack) should have remembered to add a climax, or even a third act. It was one of those movies that just seemed to be, "Is this the conclusion?" Debuting in his first American film, said UK actor Julian Moris, gave a realistic, well done performance. Whirly Girl Monet Mazur is beautiful; unfortunately, less could be said about her acting. Profanity and nudity may be an issue for ratings, there is mild nudity during the sex scenes and what kind of language would you expect from 18-year-old boys?

    Nothing bad could be said about the image or audio quality. Then again, nothing new in the world of aesthetics was brought to the picture either, nor should have been. It's a typical 'on location' picture. The musical score is mostly combined with a mix of pop and rock hits, appropriate for the scenes but soon to be outdated.

    Don't get the wrong impression I did enjoy the picture. It was as good as average for its genre and worth seeing once. It repeats some cut and paste storyline; however, Whirly Girl is cute, funny, and entertaining in its own. The scenes at the boarding school with the horny teenage boys are hilarious and very tangible for any young adult male. This picture serves the appetite of its young adult (17-25) target audience.

    Review by, Darren R. Brandl
    3bo-85

    Episodic story with hollow character and weak acting

    Whirlygirl suffers primarily from a bad script and poor direction. The script lacks the closure of a third act; we are left hanging thinking there needed to be something more. There is a rescuer scene which I guess the director thought would be a climax but the movie has an episodic feel to it.

    This film is based on a true story. Well the scriptwriter should have embellished it since true stories do not make compelling films. The lead actor Julian Morris does a decent job with the material but the rest of the cast performances are flat. In fact one of the students, who was acting like he was just waking up had a believability level of zero. Speaking of Morris, I had just watched him in Cry Wolf where he also plays a prep school student and his character seems to have walked out of that slasher movie into this one. Slasher movies can get by without any character development but a film like Whirlygirl requires it.

    Hats off to DP Christo Bakalov for delivering some great images to such a hollow story.
    8StevePulaski

    The woes of impossible love thoughtfully explored

    Whirlygirl is one of those comedies that's greatly hurt by its marketing and its own DVD cover, which makes it look like another senseless, vulgarian comedy that was destined to go straight to the bargain bins of Wal-Mart. It's very similar in story and in general to the underrated film The Girl Next Door in 2004, which was greatly hurt by a marketing campaign that wanted to exploit the perceived sexiness rather than the touching human elements that lied within. Whirlygirl, on the other hand, tackles the heartbreaking idea of falling in love with someone who is difficult or impossible to be in love with, a concept that few films dare explore in a world where mawkish, overblown romance films are so beloved.

    The film revolves around James Edwards (Julian Morris), a student at the prestigious Walden Academy, an all male prep school. Due to campus fun being depressingly minimal, James's friend Raol (J.A.Q.) contacts a mysterious woman known as "The Whirlygirl" (Monet Muzur), a fabled exotic dancer that travels to all-male schools to put on a show at fraternities. When she arrives at Walden, the boys are instantly smitten with the woman, as she makes each one of them feel like they're the perfect man at various times during her performance. Before she concludes her show, she passionately kisses James and then takes off in a flash.

    The next morning, James realizes his late father's watch is missing and believes the only person who could've realistically taken it was The Whirlygirl. He calls a cab and tracks down her home with the help of the driver before confronting her accordingly. The Whirlygirl, who's real name is Alice, winds up revealing to James that she's a conwoman as well as an erotic dancer, living alone in a small loft, estranged from her mother and performing at fraternities and tending to the needs of a sugar daddy for some stable sense of income. While it may not be a glamorous life, it's one she's content with. James can't fathom why Alice, a beautiful and clearly street-smart young woman, would put herself through these kinds of terrible situations, and Alice can't fathom why James, after what she did and how her life looks at the moment, would still gradually push closer towards her.

    The fact that James falls in love with Alice despite her unattractive features makes this a messy situation all around, and writer Pete McCormack doesn't sugarcoat the sadness at hand. James is a young man, clearly kept in line by his academics and the drudgery of constantly doing the right thing, with no woman in his life to speak of until The Whirlygirl comes along and gives him a reason to be excited. In addition, director Jim Wilson wisely doesn't make the first kiss between The Whirlygirl and James too cinematic or too romantic; it's the kind of kiss that we can see makes the two parties feel something, but not in the overblown way films tend to dramatize that special kiss. It's a beautifully understated tactic.

    Furthermore, McCormack explores the real sadness of loving someone who is in capable or momentarily unable to love the other person back. James isn't a stupid character; he knows that Alice dances and strips for a living, lives a life predominately on her own, and places herself in dangerous situations regularly; the beautiful thing, however, is that he still tries to be there for her when she's being impossible to love. Whether she's passing out because of the pills she took or being put in grave danger at a frat party, James watches over her and desperately tries to save her from herself because he knows the kind of woman she really is - a woman that's above all that she puts herself through. He desperately wants things to work between the two, in addition to making an attempt to understand why Alice puts herself in the situations that she does when she's so much brighter than that.

    If it's not obvious already, Whirlygirl strikes a very personal chord with me. I've lived through an experience similar to Jim's and still am affected by it to this day. This film explores the idea of impossible love with a tender focus and with much more respect for its characters than its narrow-minded, pandering DVD cover suggests. Of course, there are elements of incredulity in the characters' actions, such as the hearing at Walden Academy near the end, but there is an unshakable sincerity to the characters here that few comedies are willing to explore. Most of them get too wrapped up in the idea of being vulgar and crass, checking the heart and wit at the door. Here is a comedy that has ample amounts of humor, serious amounts of sadness and real-world troubles, and an ending that comes so, so very close to discarding all of that but, instead, takes a quietly tragic route. There's something so humbly subversive about this film that it makes you wish more comedies were this wise and sensitive.

    Starring: Julian Morris, Monet Muzur, and J.A.Q.. Directed by: Jim Wilson.

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      Mr. McTavish: James, I'm sure in your eyes, there are good reasons why you're risking your future for this person, but you have to understand... if she was worth the trouble, she would have the character or the insight to know the position that she's putting you in. But she's not doing that, is she?

      James: She's had a hard time.

      Mr. McTavish: You've had a hard time too. But you fought through it. That's the point here. There are people in this world who, for whatever reasons, have so little inside themselves that all they can do to feel alive is... suck the life out... of the people who have greatness inside. You have that... Listen to me, I've seen this before... Don't blow it all on someone who wouldn't stand up for you if your life depended on it.

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    • Release date
      • March 6, 2007 (Australia)
    • Country of origin
      • United States
    • Language
      • English
    • Also known as
      • Une Blonde D'enfer
    • Filming locations
      • Connecticut, USA
    • Production companies
      • All the Way Round
      • Beacon Classics
      • Tig Productions
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      • 1h 35m(95 min)
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