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The Dead Girl

One life ends. Seven others begin.

Howcome I always get to look like death warmed over?

An ensemble piece, with five different story lines, all linked by the titular dead girl. The end of her life proved to be the start of the other characters' lives, as they developed from being either abused or abusive women, into something better.

92 minutes, No persons under 16 (Language, Sex, Violence)
Detective/Mystery, Drama, On the art circuit

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Credits
Cast	Toni Collette, Brittany Murphy, Marcia Gay Harden, James Franco, Josh Brolin, Rose Byrne, Giovanni Ribisi, Kerry Washington, Mary Steenburgen, Mary Beth Hurt, Piper Laurie, Nick Searcy
Director	Karen Moncrieff
Screenplay	Karen Moncrieff
Music	Adam Gorgoni
Cinematography	Micahel Grady
Editing	Toby Yates
Sound formats	Dolby Digital, Sony Dynamic Digital Sound, DTS
Soundtrack	Not available
Made in	2006
Produced by	Lakeshort Entertainment, Pitbull Pictures
SA Distributor	Ster-Kinekor

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Trailer: Medium

FPB Report (SA)
Genre	Drama
Language	Very strong, frequent, includes blasphemy
Nudity	A couple of explicit scenes
Sex	Moderately shown, strongly implied
Violence	Fairly intense, bloody and gory
Prejudice	None
Blasphemy
Drug abuse
Comments	This movie is disturbing and deals with complex and rather mature themes, which include prostitution, serial killing, extreme loneliness and dependancy, strong sexual references and sexual language is frequent.
These details are supplied by the FPB. If you have a problem with any of the above, please take it up directly with the FPB. Read the Classification Guidelines.

Ratings

Scale (Max)	20
South African Media
Cape Argus/The StarTheresa Smith	10
Die BurgerFrancois Bloemhof	10
Cape TimesKevin Crust	10
Mail & GuardianShaun de Waal	14
The CitizenAnnette Bayne	14
Sunday TimesBarry Ronge	10
International Media
Box Office (USA)John P. McCarthy	8
Metacritic.com21 critics	13
RottenTomatoes.com74 critics	14
RottenTomatoes.comTomatometer	15
Internet (IMDB)2756 Netizens	14

Average .. 60%	12

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