Some Girls

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i saw this film on mgm...17 years after it was made (when i was 17)...it brought a few memories back of 1988 when i was probably the age of the protagonists which is maybe why it struck a key and brought back the urge to visit French speaking canada....its quite a deep film for a cast of young actors...some moving scenes..the grandmother s performance almost brought a tear to my eyes which is quite something . Jennifer Connolly shows why today she is such a great actress...she s been doing it well for years and I have always found in Patrick Dempsey a character to sympathise with...if in Loverboy or Crime and Punishment.. the sisters are so damn sexy...the father weird and the mother so passionate .this family is one i would love to stay a week with!!

One time watchable. Still got no idea why I watched the whole film. It is onion type vintage movie. If u start to peel(watch) it, Nothing will be there at ending.🙄 Maybe we need to be 70's kids to like these movies.

One of the best movies I've watched in a long time, Some Girls is spellbinding in many ways. The viewer cannot help empathizing with the young protagonist who seems to run into one problem after another during his holiday. Funny in very subtle ways and even though I didn't have any gut-busting belly laughs I did find myself chuckling at frequent intervals throughout. The scenery evoked a cold landscape in posh surroundings and everyone in the film was delightfully eccentric. I would highly recommend this movie to anyone who enjoys a ponderous plot full of character studies. It was mildly reminiscent of two other films I've enjoyed, specifically, Being There, and Harold and Maude. No outlandish special effects, very little sex or violence, so the average viewer might hate it, but if you are above average, I'm sure you will enjoy this.

It's difficult to define "Some Girls" genre because it's a mix of romance, drama and comedy. The story may seem dull in the beginning, but it gets interesting and beautiful as the scenes go by. Patrick Dempsey, who could be working more nowadays, plays Michael, a young boy who travels to Europe to see his girlfriend Gab (Jennifer Connelly). Once he's there, he meets her eccentric father, weird mother and her two beautiful and sexy sisters Irenka (Sheila Kelley) and Simone (Ashley Greenfield). Though Gab is the girlfriend, she's always away, what leaves the way clean for Simone and Irenka to seduce Michael. Everything is told in a light way, but sexuality and seduction are always present in this movie. My Rate 7/10

Just when you think you know where this movie is headed, it goes off in an unexpected direction. Michael, played by Patrick Dempsey, visits his former college girlfriend over Christmas in Quebec and quickly becomes entwined in her family's eccentric ways. Michael's quest to rekindle his romance with Gaby pushes him to the limits of total frustration and leads to several hilarious situations involving Gaby, her sisters, her perpetually naked father, and the family dog! This plot would normally be enough for most movies, but the whole tone of the film changes when Gaby's grandmother is introduced. Granny confuses Michael with her long dead husband and the sheer strength of her performance leads the movie into a whole new and unexpectedly spiritual direction. The scenes between Michael and the Grandmother are touching and make an ordinary movie into a truly special one.

France is famed for its romantics, but Quebec? In the winter? Well, perhaps it should be. A love-struck college student named Michael (Dempsey) has too many naive theories about women. Then he is invited, by his mysterious girlfriend Gabbie (Connelly) to visit her family over Christmas, in Quebec. Ah ha, he thinks; major progress. The first thing Gabbie tells Michael in Quebec, however, is that she no longer loves him. Yet, she wants him to stay for the holidays. The bewildered Michael is then introduced to Gabbie's truly bizarre family, including Gabbie's father (Gregory), a writer who can work effectively only in the *; a priest (Milette) who is hopelessly in love with Gabbie's over-protective mother (Balkan); Gabbie's sensual sister Irenka (Kelley) and her boorish boyfriend (Edwards); and a clock-stealing sheepdog, among others. Poor Michael continues to try to woo Gabbie, and almost succeeds, but is mightily distracted by Irenka and her younger sister, Simone (Greenfield). Then he meets Granny (Kedrova), the crazed and dying matriarch, who mistakes Michael for her long-dead husband of the same name. The film shifts tone as Michael discovers that love and sex need not be the same thing. The final lines of the movie sum it up well, as Michael muses that all his theories about women are bulls**t. The few professional critics who saw this film gave it very low marks, and certainly there were things to criticize. The lead actors (Demsey, Connelly) were sometimes unconvincing, and the plot was erratic and almost non-existent. These were minor flaws, however, in an otherwise fascinating film. For the most part, the acting was enjoyable, the character development was fascinating, and the film filled with unexpected humor. The sexual tension was kept high, with very little actual sex, and the ending was satisfying.

Rather unsuspecting I started watching a movie on television, co-starring young actress Jennifer Connelly whom I knew from the Jim Henson movie 'Labyrinth'. It started playful and lighthearted, but slowly grabbed me along its weird and wonderful storytelling path. This is a film to have and to hold, it grows on you. And Jennifer and her weird sisters are spellbinding and to watch out for!

Jennifer Connelly + "Teen Comedy" = loads of T&A, right? No. This movie is about a thousand times smarter and more reflective than that. This movie made me more interested in seeing her movies for her acting and not just the yards of sweaty flesh. She's made some crapola since then; "Inventing the Abbotts" was a gigantic waste of everyone involved, "Mulholland Falls" made me genuinely wonder if she was about to pull a Bridget Fonda but then "Requiem for a Dream" and "A Beautiful Mind" set the world to right. This is a preview of the kind of career choices she was going to start making, with occasional forays into titillation-land to cover the rent. It's just a movie, it's not going to reach out and change you or make you see God or anything. You will have to do that yourself. But it does draw you in anticipating a standard farce and instead getting a reflection on desire, wishes and the true definition of a life well lived. There's plenty of teeny skin-and-blood (both original and new Irony-flavored) flicks out there, rent those if you want to be cool like everyone else. If you want to spend some time musing about a movie after you see it, rent this.

In a perfect world Patrick Dempsey would lead a career similar of that of John Cusack's. He is a better actor, maybe not as handsome but more talented and more inspiring. 'Some Girls' is a great movie and Patrick Dempsey really helps to make it the way it is. Jennifer Connelly is as beautiful as she can be and the story is a beautiful 80s romantic tale. Unfortunately this undiscovered gem never got the recognition it deserved, so it won't even be released on DVD. Shame... 10/10