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Dominican Rep. Girlfight
- Original title
- Girlfight
- Year
- 2000
- Running time
- 110 min.
- Country
United States- Director
- Screenwriter
- Cast
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Michelle Rodriguez- Jaime Tirelli
Paul Calderon- Santiago Douglas
Ray Santiago- Elisa Bocanegra
- Alicia Ashley
- Thomas Barbour
- Louis Guss
- J.P. Linton
- Iris Little Thomas
- Herb Lovelle
John Sayles- See all credits
- Music
- Cinematography
- Producer
- Genre
- Drama | Sports. Boxing. Independent Film (US)
- Synopsis
- 18 years old Diana has a chip on her shoulder; she's close to expulsion from high school for fighting, her mother is dead, her dad is surly, the popular girls at school set her teeth on edge, she knows men can cause pain. When she picks up her younger brother at a Brooklyn gym where he boxes to please his father, she decides she wants to train. Hector, a coach, reluctantly agrees to teach her. It's soon clear to him that Diana has talent; he pushes her. She spends time with another young fighter, Adrian, who has a girlfriend, but Diana intrigues him and stirs real feelings he tries to articulate. She, too, must accommodate her toughness and ironic detachment to her feelings for him.
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- Awards
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2000: Sundance Film Festival: Best Movie (ex-aequo), Best Director2000: Cannes Film Festival: Directors' Fortnight (Quinzaine des Réalisateurs): Youth Award2000: Valladolid Film Festival - Seminci: Best Director2000: National Board of Review (NBR): Won Special Recognition Award (for excellence in filmaking)2000: Independent Spirit Awards: Best Debut Performance (Rodriguez). 2 Nominations2000: Chicago Film Critics Awards: Nominated for Most Promising Actress (Rodriguez)
- Critics' reviews
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"A powerful and empathetic melodrama with feminist underpinnings"
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"Refreshing and surprising, the way independent movies are supposed to be."
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"A strong, stinging film, alive with conflicts that defy glib resolutions."
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"Blends in a most satisfying manner the conventions of several genres, resulting in a coherent picture that is at once a poignant inner-city drama, a rousing sports movie, an emotional family yarn and, above all, a sweet romance"
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"Uplifting and moving in a traditional Hollywood way, while also seeming as raw and unfiltered as cinema vérité."
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