The Dead Girl


Category: Drama
All Genres: Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Release Year: 2006
Country: USA
Runtime: 85
Rating: 7.3 (0)
Languages: English
Director: Karen Moncrieff
Sound: Dolby Digital
Taglines:

  • One life ends. Seven others begin.
  • One life ends. Six others begin.
  • The Stranger, The Sister. The Wife. The Mother.

  • Writing by: Karen Moncrieff - (written by)

    Produced by: Eric Karten - producer
    Gary Lucchesi - producer
    Terry McKay - executive producer (as Terry A. McKay)
    Eric Reid - executive producer
    Tom Rosenberg - producer
    David Rubin - executive producer (as David Scott Rubin)
    Stefan Sonnenfeld - executive producer: Company 3
    Kevin Turen - producer
    Temple Williams - executive producer
    Henry Winterstern - producer
    Richard S. Wright - producer (as Richard Wright)

    Cast: Toni Collette - Arden
    Piper Laurie - Ardens Mother
    Don Smith - Cop #1 (as Donnie Smith)
    Michael Raysses - Cop #2
    Earl Carroll - Reporter
    Dorothy Beatty - Grocery Checker
    Eva Loseth - Grocery Store Customer
    Giovanni Ribisi - Rudy
    Rose Byrne - Leah
    Joanie Tomsky - Therapist
    James Franco - Derek

    Music: Adam Gorgoni
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    Plot Outline: The clues to a young womans death come together as the lives of seemingly unrelated people begin to intersect.
    Plot: In Los Angeles, a story about a dead girl, told in five chapters. A woman, miserable in her circumscribed life caring for her domineering mother, finds a body. Somehow, this discovery allows her to change. At the morgue, the sister of a girl missing for 15 years believes the body is that of her sister; this liberates her. An older woman, married to a man who pays her little attention, finds evidence in a storage unit; how will she handle it? The mother of the dead girl, who left home some years before, visits the last place her daughter lived and makes her own discoveries. Last, we flash back to the victims final day.

    Crazy Credits: We know about 2 Crazy Credits. One of them reads:
    After the last scene, the words “The End?” are shown.

    Goofs: We know about 5 goofs. Here comes one of them:
    Revealing mistakes: When Justin (Jamie Kennedys character) is on stage to do “the move” during the final dance-off, the professional dancer is on stage dancing and Jamie Kennedy can be seen in the background leaving the stage.

    Trivia: There are 1 entries in the trivia list - like these:

    • The name on the Missing Persons report for Brittany Murphys prostitute character reads “Krista Kutcher.” Murphy dated actor Ashton Kutcher after they starred together in the movie Just Married (2003).