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The Exploding Girl

Play trailer Poster for The Exploding Girl 2010,  1h 20m,  Drama/ Romance Play Trailer Watchlist
Watchlist 76% 38 Reviews Tomatometer 55% 1,000+ Ratings Popcornmeter
76% Tomatometer 38 Reviews 55% Popcornmeter 1,000+ Ratings
A college student (Zoe Kazan) considers a romance with her longtime best friend (Mark Rendall).

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Critics Consensus

Its languid pace and willfully understated narrative may test the patience of some viewers, but Bradley Rust Gray's gentle direction and a gripping performance from Zoe Kazan lend The Exploding Girl an appealing, melancholy beauty.

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Kimberley Jones Austin Chronicle May 14, 2010
4/5
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. Go to Full Review
Ty Burr Boston Globe May 6, 2010
2.5/4
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. Go to Full Review
Sam Adams Philadelphia City Paper Apr 23, 2010
A-
Gray's limpid compositions draw plangent stillness from urban darkness, counterpointing but not unbalancing his actors' understated naturalism. Go to Full Review
Dustin Chang Floating World Apr 12, 2021
This economically done film belongs to Kazan- with a lot of tight close ups, we intimately get to observe Ivy, a rather introverted, unremarkable college girl. Go to Full Review
Ellie Lucas From the Front Row Aug 5, 2019
2.5/4
Builds on character emotions and the atmosphere of the city, be it in the sound of a flock of birds at sunset or just the sounds of passing cars, to create something disarmingly beautiful. Go to Full Review
Lisa Rosman IFC.com Jul 18, 2017
In her first starring role, Kazan as Ivy vacillates wonderfully between insecurity and insouciance. Go to Full Review
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Bradley Rust Gray

Director

Zoe Kazan

Ivy

Mark Rendall

Al

Maryann Urbano

Ivy's Mom

Franklin Pipp

Greg

Hunter Canning

Cary

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Movie Info

Synopsis A college student (Zoe Kazan) considers a romance with her longtime best friend (Mark Rendall).
Director
Bradley Rust Gray
Producer
Karin Chien, Ben Howe
Screenwriter
Bradley Rust Gray
Distributor
Oscilloscope Pictures
Production Co
MBS Productions, Parts and Labor, Soandbrad
Genre
Drama, Romance
Original Language
English
Release Date (Theaters)
Mar 12, 2010, Limited
Release Date (Streaming)
Mar 17, 2017
Box Office (Gross USA)
$22.2K
Runtime
1h 20m
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