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The Exploding Girl
Directed by
Bradley Rust Gray
Not Rated
2009
80m
Drama
6.2
76%
54%
6.0
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On a summer break from college, a young epileptic woman struggles to balance her feelings for her fledgling boyfriend while her friend Al crashes with her for the season.
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Cast of The Exploding Girl
Zoe Kazan
Ivy
Mark Rendall
Al
Maryann Urbano
Ivy's Mom
Hunter Canning
Cary
Franklin Pipp
Greg
Kay Goldberg
Jennifer
Margot Ruth Tenenbaum
Cousin
Nichael Alexander Eisner
Cousin's Husband
Genevieve T. Eisner
Baby
Caseyarnoux Charlot
Doctor
Caroline Elaine
Dog Owner
Bradley Rust Gray
Director / Writer / Producer / Editor
Jason Diamond
Executive Producer
Josh Diamond
Executive Producer
Ben Howe
Producer
Karin Chien
Producer
Jay Van Hoy
Executive Producer
Lars Knudsen
Executive Producer
So Yong Kim
Producer / Assistant Director / Editor
Eric Lin
Director Of Photography
The Exploding Girl Ratings & Reviews
Austin Chronicle
Kimberley Jones
Restless audiences may itch for more plot, for the kind of fiery dramatics that typify young love in the movies, but hold the explosives: There's tender drama, too, in the possibilities of a hand-hold.
Boston Herald
James Verniere
"The Exploding Girl" can be grouped with those dreaded "mumblecore" movies in which young people talk endlessly about their romantic entanglements and attend terrible parties.
Boston Globe
Ty Burr
The Exploding Girl is a film about the deceptiveness of surfaces, and it takes place in a small town that you eventually realize with a start is actually New York City.
Boston Phoenix
Zak Jason
At least director Bradley Rust Grey contains all this diverting dithering in 80 minutes -- even without an explosion, there's intrigue in watching a short fuse burn.
Reeling Reviews
Robin Clifford
This is a mature story about the lives of two young people (and one voice) that kept my attention from start to finish.
Reeling Reviews
Laura Clifford
...a lovely, languorous film that does much with little and leaves you feeling like you've witnessed some minor miracle.
Philadelphia City Paper
Sam Adams
Gray's limpid compositions draw plangent stillness from urban darkness, counterpointing but not unbalancing his actors' understated naturalism.
Philadelphia Inquirer
Carrie Rickey
The Exploding Girl is a character study of one young woman - and of an entire generation struggling to maintain external maturity despite internal regression.
Entertainment Insiders
Janos Gereben
The Exploding Girl isn't a particularly plot driven film, but it has momentum, an undercurrent that tugs you along.
Los Angeles Times
Kenneth Turan
Sometimes a carefully placed pinprick can stay with you longer than a heavier, clumsier blow, and so it is with Bradley Rust Gray's delicately done but indelible The Exploding Girl.
Seattle Times
Tom Keogh
A Zen-like experience of watchful compassion in deliberately challenging circumstances: trying to see and hear, without leaping to conclusions, the gathering troubles of a young woman living in hectic circles and with increasing self-absorption.
Washington Post
Dan Kois
Viewers willing to slow down their cinematic metabolism enough to watch The Exploding Girl at its own pace will find their patience rewarded by moments of great beauty...
Entertainment Weekly
Lisa Schwarzbaum
Gray has an artful, understated way of conveying what's going on inside, often simply by focusing his camera on Kazan. And the actress has a unique capacity for projecting the complexity of feminine stillness.
Observer
Rex Reed
This is another dreary collaboration by husband-wife team Bradley Rust Gray and So Yong Kim, who have no idea what to do with a simple narrative.
New York Daily News
Joe Neumaier
This quietly poetic little gem contains many beautiful things, not least of which is leading lady Zoe Kazan, who lets every scene billow and swirl around her effortlessly.
New York Times
A.O. Scott
Mr. Gray's achievement -- and Ms. Kazan's, too -- is to make you care enough about Ivy to be curious about her. But The Exploding Girl can also make you feel bad about wishing that she were just a little more interesting.
New York Post
Lou Lumenick
Those who can hang on through the mumblecore-ish narrative languor of the nicely photographed The Exploding Girl will savor a very talented actress' sensitive portrait of youthful awkwardness.
AV Club
Noel Murray
Like any good B-side, The Exploding Girl is engaging but rough, lacking the kind of polish that would make it a hit.
Village Voice
Karina Longworth
Avoiding allegorical clichs, Gray turns the frustrations of epilepsy into an effective metaphor for non-epileptic youthful paralysis, and the inevitable "explosion" into the culmination of all those growing pains
Slant Magazine
Bill Weber
Exasperating for its mundane narrative of youthful non-courtship camouflaged by Manhattan street-video naturalism, The Exploding Girl occasionally suggests mumblecore with less improvisation and heaps of undergrad preciousness in place of snarky ir
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