GO WITH IT...

Rating: 9/10 (9 April 2004)

It's hard to explain The Girl Next Door and why it's such a great film. But trust me it is, and go see it. It's 100 percent fantastic. I went into the film with mediocre expectations at best. But this film completely exceeded them. I could have gone in with high expectations and still been completely satisfied but going in with slighter expectations has left me completely astounded everything about this film screams professionalism. As it starts off with a collage of High School life done to yearbook pictures and nostalgic music of mostly anyones childhood. it's the feelings it brings forth that inspires memory and classic nostalgia. your only wishing at this point that the film could keep up this feeling through out it and does it one better and creates something completely original, somewhat magical and totally believable. But as for the films plot which is filled with more depth that you can hardly imagine. It opens with a young man whom is questioning his HS years and their lack of enertaining memorabilia. Than enters the girl next door a young woman played by the beautiful and completed talented Elisa Cushbert of 24 and she is a stunner believe me when I say that. He meets her, she meets him issues ensue and she decides to give him the memories he's in search of just because of the innocent way he looks at her. But she has a secret you see she's no ordinary girl she's actually a porn star whom just quit her job trying to find a more suitable and respectful career. One she has settled into because a lack of better choices and because of the way she's always been treated. Now with the synopsis I am gonna completely stop there because to give anymore away would be wrong and if I did you'd probably be like what the hell is this? and never see it. But trust me it's worth any price you would pay and completely worth a viewing. The film is completely layered and three dimensional. It's beautifully written and the characters and their performances are smart and sexy. Although the film appears to be a sex comedy it's that sex appeal that it usues to draw you in and than drops you over on it to teach the audience an apporpriate and heartfelt lesson. With all the cliches and silliness pushed to the absent side. The performances, direction and writing are all inspiring and you can expected to see these talented faces and names headline cinema for years to come. This film rocks it's almost everything you could want of in a movie. As it moves along it gets better. And when it ends your completely satisfied and you will carry a well deserved smile through the entire day following and whenever you decide to discuss it. Intelligent, provocative, sexy, funny, dramtic, emotions these are all things that describe this film but I'll use the credo that one character lives by and passes it on to others. Who cares what people think just go with it!!!! And run out and see this.