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The Girl

TV-14

2012

1h 31m

Drama

Biography

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70%

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44 Reviews

41%

Audience Score

500+ Ratings

Famed director Alfred Hitchcock (Toby Jones) obsesses over actress Tippi Hedren (Sienna Miller) while filming "The Birds."

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Critics Consensus

The Girl may be too prosaic to properly evoke its subject, but sterling performances by Toby Jones and Sienna Miller bring to life one of cinematic history's most horrific abuses of power.

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Joanne Ostrow

Denver Post

Sienna Miller is lovely as Hedren, a fresh-faced beauty with a reserve that made her seem sculpted from marble.

Aug 5, 2020

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Linda Stasi

New York Post

The Girl could have been a great movie, but the screenplay turns Hedren into a paragon of female strength and morality... And then there's Sienna Miller. Halfway believable but missing what Hitchcock called "the volcano inside."

Aug 5, 2020

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Matt Zoller Seitz

New York Magazine/Vulture

There's ultimately not enough imagination, enough art, in The Girl to justify its having been made.

Aug 5, 2020

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Matt Roush

TV Guide

Toby Jones is pitch-perfect and eerily nuanced in revealing the self-loathing underbelly of the corpulent Hitch.

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Tom Gliatto

People Magazine

For The Girl to work, the director's perversity needs to come up against the actress's desperate will to fight him off. Miller is believably blonde, and that's about it.

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Jane Simon

Daily Mirror (UK)

Gwyneth Hughes's economical script delivers every descending step of Hedren's destructive relationship with the director, without ever tipping over into sensationalism.

Aug 5, 2020

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Shioka O

Worth spend time to see the possible behind-the-scene after watching The Bird and Marnie.

Rated 3 out of 5 stars

03/11/23

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Audience Member

Toby Jones is excellent as ever and Sienna Miller great. Seems like Hitchcock fans and producers of the schmaltzy 2012 hitchcock (same year) want this movie to disappear as it has a negative depiction of the fondly remembered director. I think it unlikely that there was nothing in the accusations of Tipi Hedren even if what she says are contradictory. It is unfortunate that contemporary culture is such that if impropriety is alleged then all the work of the artist is blacklisted. Gripping and more and more relevent post Weinstein/ me too.

Rated 5 out of 5 stars

01/15/23

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Audience Member

I really enjoyed this film. It really shows Alfred Hitchcock and his dark side. Sienna Miller also does a stunning performance as Tippi Hedren. I would totally watch it again.

Rated 4 out of 5 stars

01/13/23

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This film depicts Alfred Hitchcock's unhealthy obsession with a model he cast in the lead role of The Birds, Tippi Hedren. Toby Jones does a spot on job as Hitchcock, getting both the voice and the look right. Seanna Miller also does a great job as the increasingly fragile Tippi Hedren who suffers through Hitchcock's bullying to get the role of a lifetime. Unlike the other Hitchcock biopic starring Anthony Hopkins, this one paints Hitchcock it a much less favourable light, depicting him as a bully and sexual predator. How much is true with these biopics is always debatable but the film was entertaining and shocking. Worth seeing if you've ever enjoyed any of the man's films and a good comparison with the Anthony Hopkins version.

Rated 3 out of 5 stars

01/20/23

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Audience Member

Beautiful performances and stunning Sienna Miller. However, I was disappointed to find out that this movie did not stand up to the truth of the story it was telling.

Rated 3 out of 5 stars

01/31/23

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Audience Member

Interesting to watch.....

Rated 3.5 out of 5 stars

01/17/23

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Julian Jarrold

Director

Toby Jones

Alfred Hitchcock

Sienna Miller

Tippi Hedren

Imelda Staunton

Alma Hitchcock

Carl Beukes

Jim Brown

Penelope Wilton

Peggy Robertson

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Synopsis

Famed director Alfred Hitchcock (Toby Jones) obsesses over actress Tippi Hedren (Sienna Miller) while filming "The Birds."

Director: Julian Jarrold
Screenwriter: Gwyneth Hughes
Production Co: BBC, Wall to Wall Media, Ltd., Moonlighting, Warner Bros., Home Box Office (HBO)
Rating: TV-14
Genre: Drama, Biography
Original Language: English
Release Date (Streaming): Aug 10, 2016
Runtime: 1h 31m

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