How to Build a Girl
Film2020102 min

How to Build a Girl

Taste attributes: comedyteentried & testedlightrealisticsimplelinearenclosedemotive & stirringcoming of agecomplex relationship

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Boxlist takeAccessible and straightforward: a grounded comedy. Best if you like escapism over depth.

Taste details

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

Taste Attributes

coming of agecomplex relationship

Characteristics

Where this title sits on each taste spectrum

SlowPACEFast
FamiliarORIGINALITYOriginal
DarkTONEWholesome
LightWEIGHTINESSHeavy
FantasyREALISMRealistic
SimpleINTRICACYIntricate
Non-LinearLINEARITYLinear
UnderstatedSTYLEStylised
IntimateSCALEEpic
RestrainedEMOTIONIntense

Cast

Beanie FeldsteinPaddy ConsidineSarah SolemaniAlfie AllenFrank Dillane

Details

Genre
Comedy
Year
2020
Runtime
102 min
Status
Released
Studio
Film4 Productions
Taste scores
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