Product: The Dead Girl (2006)
Rating: 5.0
Undiscovered
I'm stunned that I had never heard of this excellent film until discovering it by accident (on a friend's coffee table while housesitting). What I thought might be an intersting little drama actually turned out to be a powerful, devastating and engrossing film. Filled with powerhouse actors, this film shows the affect a vicious murder has on a variety of people, from the stranger who discovers the body (Toni Colette), to the dead girl's naive, devastated mother (Marcia Gay Harden) to the doomed, damaged girl herself (Britney Murphy). Every one of the film's vignettes is both brutal and tender, filled with stories of desperation, sex, death and redemption. This is easily the best film of its kind I've seen since "Monster's Ball". Why didn't this film get more attention? It deserves it.