White Girl
A hard-partying college girl cannot deal with having a drug dealer she has just met away from and hence would do anything to keep him at arm length.
1 November 1991, Brooklyn, New York, New York, USA
11 January 1987, Columbus, Ohio, USA
21 July 1978, West Bloomfield, Michigan, USA
January 02, 2017
Saylor is alternately stiff and extraordinary here, not so great at playing the sober innocent but an ace at the blurry motions of someone who's extremely wasted.
October 12, 2016
When White Girl isn't dressing up as a morality play, it sharply confronts the social and political anxieties of the most idealistic generation in generations.
September 15, 2016
First-time writer-director Elizabeth Wood's White Girl sets out to be a Great Gatsby for the 21st century - and perhaps in the process, to depict the orgastic future that Fitzgerald mentioned at the story's end.
September 30, 2016
What comes through in White Girl is a generic cautionary tale...
September 08, 2016
"White Girl" announces the arrival of a director of considerable verve, and its choice of style and subject toes a similarly tricky line between leering exploitation and unflinching portraiture.
September 29, 2016
Neatly plotted and minimally staged, the movie marks Wood as a talent to watch, but Saylor deserves equal credit for her layered performance as the title character, a confident young woman who crumbles into a confused and frightened child.
September 08, 2016
"White Girl" vividly charts what is at times a violent culture clash. But it is the young lovers' desperate attempt to bridge the gap between their worlds that makes the film so deeply moving.
September 15, 2016
Harrowing to the point of being off-putting - but not quite.
December 01, 2016
Loosely based on the director's own experience, Wood's viscerally charged film gets under the skin in ways that are hard to shake.
September 15, 2016
The film has a restless, kinetic style that suits the drug-fueled mayhem.
September 30, 2016
Frequently difficult to watch, White Girl is the powerful feature debut of a filmmaker with original vision and clear talent -- and a movie that proves a lead actress can possess the gift of transformative performance skills.
October 12, 2016
Despite errors made, the film's embrace of sexual agency is well, bracing. The memorable ending justifies nearly everything that came before. Contains graphic sex, degradation and sexual violence.

