REVIEW: SUBURBAN GIRL - starring Sarah Michelle Gellar
Director: Marc Klein
Producers: Deborah Del Prete, Gigi Pritzker, and Darryl Taja
Screenplay: Marc Klein
Adapted from the short stories "My Old Man" and "The worst Thing a Suburban Girl Could Imagine", by Melissa Bank
Co-starring: Alec Baldwin, Peter Scolari, Jill Eikenberry
US Release Date: 27 April 2007
Length: 96 minutes
Genre: Romantic Comedy
Interesting Character Scale (Helen Shivers=0 Buffy Summers=10}: nine
Best scene for Gellar: When they meet.
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Imagine 1970 Barbara Streisand and 1985 Michael Caine directed by 1987 Woody Allen. The film is visually impressive (I really liked Brett's apartment and the less than accidental backgrounds in some of the open air shots), and it is the sort of thing Gellar needs to do more often (comedy). Didn't much like the bit about her dad dying. Thought it injected pop psychology into an otherwise interesting story. Note that in The Return (see review on this site) the father is pivotal to the story, and in Buffy, the father is absent except for one flashback episode in Season Six where Buffy retreats from reality to her childhood.
Read Marc Klein's article for The Huffington Post about adapting the story and directing this film.
