Product: The Dead Girl (2006)
Rating: 4.0
dark in a good way
The acting: Toni Collette & Marcia Gay Harden either/or are enough to make me watch a film. The latter did not disappoint. Maybe I'm too amateur to understand Collette's character but to me it seemed unbelievable & since the storyline seemed to provide the goods, I generally deem that bad acting. Somebody note me & tell me why I'm wrong because Toni Collette & bad acting don't belong in the same sentence. Brittney Murphy (who knew, I thought she was a Paris Hilton-type) was amazing. I take back my former thoughts of her & will see what else she has been in. Lots of other great smaller parts, too, even the butch lady working at the No-Tell Motel & 'the sister.' The film: really enjoyed it although vignette films never give me enough, I always wish they were 10 hours long so each vignette was movie length. (That's not the movie's fault, just my rambling opinion.) I felt the film answered all my questions, segued nicely & didn't unnecessarily sanitize or state the obvious. What more could I ask for?