The Girl Next Door

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The Girl Next Door

R

2004

1h 48m

Romance

Comedy

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Eighteen-year-old Matthew Kidman (Emile Hirsch) is a straight-arrow overachiever who has never really lived life... until he falls for his new neighbor, the beautiful and seemingly innocent Danielle (Elisha Cuthbert). When Matthew discovers this perfect girl next door is a one-time porn star, his sheltered existence begins to spin out of control. Ultimately, Danielle helps Matthew emerge from his shell and discover that sometimes you have to risk everything for the person you love.

Critics Consensus

The movie borrows heavily from Risky Business, though Hirsch and Cuthbert are appealing leads.

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Antonia Quirke

London Evening Standard

12/18/2017

This is not entirely your average greasy teen movie, and frequently manages to be quite funny, and ambivalent, about vicious competitiveness at US high schools and sickly, sex-saturated modern life.

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Nell Minow

Common Sense Media

12/28/2010

1/5

Stunningly bad teen sex comedy.

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Nick Schager

Lessons of Darkness

05/03/2005

C-

Essentially Risky Business for the 21st century, and I don't mean that as a compliment.

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James Croot

The Post NZ

06/14/2023

2/5

Stalling about an hour in, the movie tries to squeeze way too much juice out of a single premise, ending up at least 20 minutes too long, ploddingly predictable, devoid of any humour and with countless serious lapses in logic and taste.

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Debbie Lynn Elias

Behind The Lens

11/07/2019

Despite the nudity and sexual hi-jinx, Girl Next Door is a creative delight with surprising insight and honesty that will make you laugh, make you smile and most of all, make you feel, all at the same time.

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Cole Smithey

ColeSmithey.com

05/04/2009

D+

The writing team of "National Lampoon's Van Wilder" crafted it as a satire about conflicting levels of sexual experience among teens, but fail to connect the significance of erotic pleasure to the emotional demands of budding adults.

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Thyaagu C

@Thyaagu May 6

Elisha Cuthbert was damn magnetic, but the movie was much much more than a glam-crush watch. It had heart. Silly, funny, weird and also wise at times. Comfort comedy entertainer!

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@FunsterP Apr 20

Waste of time. Nothing interesting in the plot, and its the wrong treatment for this topic. Is porn treated as casual-neutral, or a negative aspective of society? You can't have it both ways. That porn is okay but she needs help escaping from a form of sex trafficking and the parents are cool with his relationship with her, as though it was nothing, just doesn't work. Is it sex trafficking or is it a comedy? Comes across as neither and in the end has no meaningful outcome. Not funny or entertaining either. If its a teen sex comedy, I'd prefer my teen not to watch it, even though they are 18 and 19.

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Jamie V.

@crosive Mar 6

my stupid ex loved this movie so screw it. I will watch soon though so not my actual review for now

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BotHeroMaster T

@BotHeroMaster Dec 24

i did not expect such a good movie, and such a up and down rollercoaster!!

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Diego V

@RT35049818 Dec 21

This movie separates boys from men. The first contact of a boy with a really wonderful women. Elisha Cuthbert is literally amazing in her act and the movie drives very very well between comedy, drama, action and romance. A must see movie.

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Thiago B

@RT84504788 Nov 30

The writers simply didn't know where they wanted to go with this film. The premise is very interesting, the film is fun to watch, it would be better if the confusion of ideas among the writers wasn't so obvious, the film changes direction all the time.

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Synopsis

Eighteen-year-old Matthew Kidman (Emile Hirsch) is a straight-arrow overachiever who has never really lived life... until he falls for his new neighbor, the beautiful and seemingly innocent Danielle (Elisha Cuthbert). When Matthew discovers this perfect girl next door is a one-time porn star, his sheltered existence begins to spin out of control. Ultimately, Danielle helps Matthew emerge from his shell and discover that sometimes you have to risk everything for the person you love.

Director: Luke Greenfield
Producer: Harry Gittes, Charles Gordon, Marc Sternberg
Screenwriter: Luke Greenfield, Stuart Blumberg, David Wagner, Brent Goldberg
Distributor: 20th Century Fox
Production Co: Daybreak Point Entertainment, Fox 2000 Pictures, New Regency Pictures, Regency Enterprises
Rating: R (Some Alcohol Use|Some Drug Use|Language|Strong Sexual Content)
Genre: Romance, Comedy
Original Language: English
Release Date (Theaters): Feb 18, 2004, Wide
Release Date (Streaming): Jan 1, 2014
Box Office (Gross USA): $14.6M
Runtime: 1h 48m
Sound Mix: Surround, Dolby Digital
Aspect Ratio: Flat (1.85:1)