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George Washington

United States

2000

89 Min
Color
2.35:1
English
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DIR David Gordon Green

EXEC Sam Froelich

PROD David Gordon Green, Sacha W. Mueller, Lisa Muskat

SCR David Gordon Green

DP Tim Orr

CAST Candace Evanofski, Donald Holden, Damien Jewan Lee, Curtis Cotton III, Rachael Handy, Paul Schneider, Eddie Rouse

ED Steven Gonzales, Zene Baker

PROD DES Richard Wright, Richard A. Wright

MUSIC Michael Linnen, David Wingo

SOUND Ben Zarai

Toronto (Discovery): Discovery Award, New York, Karlovy Vary, Berlinale (Forum), Stockholm (Competition): Best Cinematography, Mar del Plata, Vancouver, Berlinale (Forum)

Synopsis

Over the course of one hot summer, a group of children in the rural south are forced to confront a tangle of difficult choices in a decaying world. An ambitiously constructed, sensuously photographed meditation on adolescence, the first feature film by director David Gordon Green features breakout performances from an award-winning ensemble cast. —The Criterion Collection

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David Gordon Green

David Gordon Green (born 9 April 1975) is an American filmmaker.

His films, which are usually coming-of-age tales set in small rural towns, have been categorized as belonging to the Southern Gothic tradition. Green’s dialog often has an obtuse, semi-poetic quality.

While in university, he made the two short films, Pleasant Grove and Physical Pinball, at the North Carolina School of the Arts prior to his feature film debut in 2000, the critically-acclaimed George Washington, which he both wrote and directed. He followed that in 2003 with All the Real Girls and Undertow in 2004. In 2007, Snow Angels, his first film created from a screenplay rather than his own writing, was adapted from a Stewart O’Nan novel. The film debuted at Sundance in January 2007 and stars Sam Rockwell and Kate Beckinsale. It was released by Warner Independent Pictures.
Green was set to direct a film version of the John Kennedy Toole novel… read more

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Tony Zhou

11Mar12

12 years later, it's still a great, beautiful film. What happened, DGG?

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Matt Turner

18Jan12

'Im not a good person, I don't think nice things.'. Atmospheric and mood driven film. Weird to think this guy went on to make Pineapple Express and Your Highness. You gots to diversify I guess.

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Alex Denison

7Dec11

beautifully shot but a little too kitschy

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micah van hove

18Nov11

Beguiling & unique. Tim Orr fucking nails it.

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Grace, Soul and Vision

By Mike Geraght​y Jr. on October 24, 2009

This debut film by David Gordon Green is a massive work of art. Photographed in golden browns and sun-lit hues, the film features a group of teens (all non-actors) in a rundown southern town as they…  read review

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