The Girl Next Door (2004)

Cautiously Recommended

USA/Switzerland

Feature Film

Director: Luke Greenfield

Writers: Stuart Blumberg, Brent Goldberg, David T. Wagner

Cinematographer: Jamie Anderson

Cast: Emile Hirsch, Elisha Cuthbert, Timothy Olyphant, James Remar, Chris Marquette, Paul Dano

A well-behaved aspiring politician, about to graduate from high school, competing for a morale fibre scholarship to Georgetown University, falls in love with the girl next door, who just so happens to be an 18-year-old retired porn star, a turn of events which soon puts his previously rosy-looking future in doubt, in Greenberg’s surprisingly sweet and generally entertaining if rather familiar feeling teen rom-com. Iain.Stott