Genre:
Comedy Drama
Theatrical Release: 04/09/2004(USA)
Release Date: 01/01/2001
Sound: DD5.1/DDS
Run Time:
Flags: Strong Sexual Content, Profanity, Substance Abuse
Distributor/Studio: 20th Century Fox
Boy meets girl who's already met all sorts of boys and girls in this
teen-slanted
comedy.
Matthew Kidman (
Emile Hirsch) is a straight-laced and highly ambitious high school student who plans to study at Georgetown University and dreams of a career in politics. While most of his classmates are in the throes of an epidemic of senioritis,
Matthew is obsessed with schoolwork and has a hard time relaxing and having fun. But he finds himself a bit less focused on his future career when
Danielle (
Elisha Cuthbert), a beautiful 19-year-old blonde, moves in next door.
Danielle is playful, spontaneous, and doesn't always remember to draw her shades, and before long
Matthew is head over heels in love.
Danielle soon finds herself taken with
Matthew as well, but their relationship takes an unusual turn when he discovers that, before she moved to town,
Danielle had a successful career as a
porn actress.
Matthew is able to convince
Danielle that she's cut out for better things in life than appearing in
porn videos, but his advice doesn't especially please
Kelly (
Timothy Olyphant) or
Hugo (
James Remar), two
porn moguls who figure
Matthew owes them big-time after convincing their leading lady to drop out of the
adult industry.
The Girl Next Door -- which, appropriately enough, shares its title with a 1999
documentary about
adult film superstar
Stacy Valentine -- also features
Timothy Bottoms,
Paul Dano, and
Chris Marquette. ~ Mark Deming, All Movie Guide
;)
