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DVD Details
- Number of Discs: 2
- Rated: R
- Closed captioning available
- Run Time: 1 hours, 50 minutes
- Video: Color
- Encoding: Region 1 (USA & Canada)
- Released: March 27, 2001
- Originally Released: 2000
- Label: Sony Pictures
Performers, Cast and Crew:
Starring | Michelle Rodriguez | |
Performer: | Jamie Tirelli, Paul Calderon & Santiago Douglas | |
Directed by | Karyn Kusama | |
Edited by | Plummy Tucker | |
Composition by | Theodore Shapiro | |
Produced by | Sarah Green, Maggie Renzi & Martha Griffin | |
Executive Production by | John Sayles, Jonathan Sehring & Caroline Kaplan |
Entertainment Reviews:
Rating: B --
It's obvious Kusama knew what she wanted and was in control, because all the key roles and scenes are played with a uniform tone and conviction.
Houston Chronicle
...[Rodriguez is] incandescent....[Kusama] shows a clear, personal filmmaking style... -- Rating: A-
Entertainment Weekly
...A powerful and empathetic melodrama with feminist underpinnings...
Los Angeles Times
For once, the advance buzz has been amply justified, thanks to an extraordinarily charismatic film debut by a non-professional named Michelle Rodriguez.
Full Review
Observer
Kusama's direction is imaginative, her attention to detail makes for credibility and clarity with regard to the dilemmas faced by her determined young heroine, and Rodriguez is quite astonishing in the lead role.
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Time Out
...[Michelle Rodriguez is] an electrifying presence....A coming-of-age tale that truly floats like a butterfly and stings like a bee...--3 out of 4 stars
USA Today
It gives its fine actors room to breathe and behave -- and in Michelle Rodriguez's case, glow.
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TIME Magazine
Product Description:
In GIRLFIGHT, Diana Guzman (Michelle Rodriguez) is a tough high school girl with a violent streak. Between problems at school, a father who belittles her, and a lonely social life, she searches for some way to find respect, love, and challenge. Diana finds all those things in the boxing ring at a gritty Brooklyn gym, where she begins training against her father's will and eventually earns the gym's championship for female boxers.
Rodriguez's performance is what carries the film, as she makes the character of Diana Guzman real in every sense. Guzman is an awkward teenage girl whose only advantage is that she's angry. As she channels this anger into determination, she doesn't become a flawless heroine--when she gets punched in the face, it hurts--but the way she grows internally is visible, and that is the truly beautiful thing about this film. Director Karyn Kusama should also be commended for the film's subtle communication of difficult family issues and its objectivity in telling this slightly feminist tale. The inspiring soundtrack features a terrific title song by Theodore Shapiro as well as hits by artists such as Queen Latifah. A story of willpower, strength, and endurance, GIRLFIGHT wins on all fronts.
Rodriguez's performance is what carries the film, as she makes the character of Diana Guzman real in every sense. Guzman is an awkward teenage girl whose only advantage is that she's angry. As she channels this anger into determination, she doesn't become a flawless heroine--when she gets punched in the face, it hurts--but the way she grows internally is visible, and that is the truly beautiful thing about this film. Director Karyn Kusama should also be commended for the film's subtle communication of difficult family issues and its objectivity in telling this slightly feminist tale. The inspiring soundtrack features a terrific title song by Theodore Shapiro as well as hits by artists such as Queen Latifah. A story of willpower, strength, and endurance, GIRLFIGHT wins on all fronts.
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- UPC: 043396056688
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