These Girls (2005)

Good story, Not enough for a whole film

Good movie, but best of all time? Hardly . . .

The joyful confection is coated in a sparkly gloss, bright enough to gleam from the darkest, most cynical corners.

The film never slows down or bores, plunging from one harrowing sequence to the next.

the idea of three teenagers wanting to bed a married guy with a child is sheer fantasy for many an adult male and so the premise of this movie is interesting for many. This started off well as each girl takes their turn and then set up rotas but the writers probably ran out of ideas just when there could be a really intriguing and/or funny ending. They opted for a "safe" non controversial conclusion which was disappointing. This was also one of those movies which couldn't make its mind up if wanted to be a comedy or a drama but that can also be blamed on the weak directing and the director unsurprisingly has not made any movie in 5 years. This is rainy day stuff and isn't terrible, a plus is that i'll also be looking out for the very beautiful caroline dhavernas from now on as well.

The premise of this movie is ugghhhh. The guy is married and yet everyone on this site seems to think, "Yeah, this is funny, cute, and a good movie." What the Hell?!?! What is funny about immature girls having sex with a married man with a new baby? What is cute about the fact that he is cheating on his wife? What would have been wrong with them finding some teenage boys to have sex with before starting college? Noooo, that is not good enough, the guy has to be married, off-limits, off-the-market, that's the one we gotta have. Dumb-ass GIRLS! Then one of the girls decides that she "loves" the guy. No, she just "loves" the way he makes her feel. Two of the girls are having fun with it, they think it is funny and no one seems to have any moral problem with what they are doing. It is just shameless, but yeah this is all good with everyone one this website. The dark-haired girl even has the audacity to have her dad pick her up from the guys house, under the ruse of baby- sitting. This is a morally disgusting movie and where is the wife? Poor woman working and paying the bills while he screws the baby-sitter.

These Girls is just a completely average film in every way. The cast tries their best but the script is sub-par and sleazy and really carries no real weight. It doesn't try to play to any particular demographic, certainly not teens or shouldn't be and anyone older than thirty and you might feel a little dirty watching this film about 16 and 17 year old girls seducing and more or less raping a 30+ year old man, who is married and whose baby is quite often in the next room or with him. Even though the three actresses portraying teenagers are well into their twenties it doesn't make the film any less sexually deviant or disturbing. There is just something wrong about the whole thing. Based on a French Canadian play the film is just a mish-mash of weirdness but I suppose with some decent performance by the lead cast.David Boreanaz, I admit I'm a fan, loved him through Buffy The Vampire Slayer, and Angel and I am now an avid watcher of Bones and he is good in the lead role as sleazy serial cheater Keith Clark. I don't think this film will do a thing for his career but his role is good and he does a decent job. I don't know how he got tied up with this one though?? Relatively experienced Canadian actress Caroline Dhavernas, plays the lead girl and narrator Keira St-George. She does come across as the most intelligent and the leader of the group but their actions make them all sleazy no matter what they do outside of that. Out of the three girls she did the best job as little as that might be saying. Relative newcomer Holly Lewis plays the youngest, most inexperienced of the group. She is religiously obsessive but feels the need to experience sex once before going away to 7th Day Adventist school. I found her annoying and her portrayal as such a young school girl really disturbing and the sex scene she shares with Boreanaz was just borderline wrong and disgusting. Amanda Walsh, former Much Music VJ plays Glory Lorraine, and I think possibly gave the best performance. Her character Glory was truly infatuation with Keith and believed she loved him and gets screwed over by him and her friends. Her portrayal as being so much younger came across as kind of weird at times too but she was still better than most in the film.Certainly I would not describe These Girls as a "chick flick" because the film is completely and utterly demeaning to women. But in all fairness it's kind of completely and utterly demeaning to men too. The film can only be best described as a sleaze-fest with no real outcome although they try to make it seem like Keith Clark gets what's coming to him but he doesn't. I even saw a review that compared this to the recent film "John Tucker Must Die" and although These Girls might try to follow that formula it certainly never comes across as that. Definitely pass this one over unless you're a huge fan of one of the main characters. You'll be disappointed. Despite a slightly watchable and a graciously short time span it's really not worth seeing. 5/10

I was in the play These Girls in Ottawa at Art's Court back in 1999 and had the pleasure of working with Vivienne Laxdal on the production. I would just like to say how delighted I am that her work was made into a movie. I loved playing Caroline.. who i believe is now Kiara.... she had such a great story around her. I must say it was probably the best play I have ever had the pleasure to be involved with, thanks in part to playing such a great character and also in having the wonderful words of encouragement from Vivienne at rehearsals, who is also an accomplished actress. I can not wait to see this movie, if they have kept close to the play it is sure to be a riot!