
How to Build a Girl
Taste attributes: comedyteentried & testedlightrealisticsimplelinearenclosedemotive & stirringcoming of agecomplex relationship
Boxlist takeAccessible and straightforward: a grounded comedy. Best if you like escapism over depth.
Taste details
Pace: balanced · Originality: balanced · Tone: balanced · Weight: light · Realism: true to life · Story: simple · Structure: linear · Look: balanced · Scale: balanced · Emotional punch: balancedHow we score
Quality rating
5.7 /10
TMDB · 29 votes
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What lines up
- Setting / scale: Small / confined, just how this profile likes it
- Wholesomeness: Balanced wholesomeness, just how this profile likes it
- Linearity: Linear / logical, just how this profile likes it
What might not click
- Intricacy: Basic story, where this profile leans smart / intricate
- Weightiness: Light / accessible, where this profile leans weighty / heavy
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Synopsis
The journey of Midlands teenager Johanna Morrigan, who reinvents herself as Dolly Wilde: fast-talking, lady sex-adventurer, moves to London, and gets a job as music critic in the hope of saving her poverty stricken family in Wolverhampton. Based on Caitlin Moran's bestselling semi-autobiographical novel.
Synopsis: TMDB
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Details
- Genre
- Comedy
- Year
- 2020
- Runtime
- 102 min
- Status
- Released
- Studio
- Film4 Productions
- Taste scores
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