How to Build A Girl
Synopsis
Johanna Morrigan is 16, smart, opinionated, brash, over-weight - not exactly the high school prom queen. She is also a virgin whose hormones are rioting like a zoo on fire. Although she loves her dysfunctional family, Johanna is desperate to get out and make a name for herself. And so she does, as Dolly Wilde, a bad-ass music critic at a hip magazine. In person, she rubs shoulders (and sometimes more...) with rock stars, while on paper, she tears them apart. As she slaughters her way to greater and greater success, the lines between Johanna Morrigan and Dolly Wilde begin to haze. Can she be an ‘enfant terrible’ and hold on to her family, her heroes and her heart? Johanna definitely figured out how to build a girl, but has she figured out which girl to build?
Official Selection Toronto International Film Festival 2019 - Special Presentations - World premiere
Details
- Year
- 2019
- Type of film
- Features
- Running Time
- 102 min
- Director
- Coky Giedroyc
- Producer
- Alison Owen, Debra Hayward
- Executive Producer
- Daniel Battsek, Ollie Madden, Sue Bruce-Smith, Tim Headington, Lia Buman, Zygi Kamasa, Emma Berkofsky, Caitlin Moran
- Screenwriter
- Caitlin Moran
- Principal Cast
- Beanie Feldstein, Alfie Allen, Paddy Considine, Sarah Solemani, Chris O'Dowd, Emma Thompson
Genre
Production status
Complete
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Last updated 24th July 2019
