Girl Most Likely
for sexual content and language.
| Moral Rating: | not reviewed |
| Moviemaking Quality: |
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| Primary Audience: | Adults |
| Genre: | Comedy |
| Length: | 1 hr. 43 min. |
| Year of Release: | 2013 |
| USA Release: |
July 19, 2013 (wide—353 theaters) DVD: November 5, 2013 |
dealing with the personal emotions of failure
personal humiliation
loving and accepting family
fornication in the Bible
| Featuring |
Kristen Wiig … Imogene Annette Bening … Zelda Matt Dillon … George/The Bousche Bob Balaban … Maxwell Darren Criss … Lee Christopher Fitzgerald … Ralph June Diane Raphael … Dara Natasha Lyonne … Allyson See all » |
| Director |
Shari Springer Berman Robert Pulcini |
| Producer |
Maven Pictures Anonymous Content See all » |
| Distributor |
 Lionsgate (Lions Gate Entertainment Corp.) |
“She has a lot to live up to. And a few things to live down.”
Here’s what the distributor says about their film: “Former American President Calvin Coolidge once postulated that his country’s most common commodity is unrealized potential. Few of us can claim not to possess it, but it takes a special sort of underachiever to match the feats of Imogene (Kristen Wiig), a playwright once thought to be destined for greatness, but who has spent most of her twenties and thirties frittering away her talent and opportunities. As Imogene begins, she's just about hit bottom, having staged a suicide attempt in a desperate bid to hold on to her philandering boyfriend—it's about the only thing she's staged in a very long time. And it's not a hit.
Things can only go up from here, and they do in this wildly quirky and weirdly optimistic comic character study. After her fake suicide attempt, Imogene is remanded to the custody of her mother (Annette Bening), a blowsy, overbearing gambling addict with a friendly but somewhat seedy goof of a boyfriend (Matt Dillon) who claims to be working for the CIA. This unexpected homecoming forces Imogene to confront her lingering feelings about her long-dead father, but it also finds her developing a surprising intimacy with her mother's lodger, the much-younger Lee (Darren Criss), a singer currently exhibiting his talents in a Backstreet Boys cover band. Lee would seem anything but substantial on the surface, yet his sincerity and intelligence is arresting, and he may be just what the doctor ordered for our recovering heroine.”
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