Boy Meets Girl (2014 film)
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| Directed by | Eric Schaeffer |
| Written by | Eric Schaeffer |
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| Edited by | Frank Reynolds |
| Music by | Matthew Puckett |
| Distributed by | Wolfe Video |
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Running time | 99 minutes |
| Country | United States |
| Language | English |
Boy Meets Girl is a 2014 American romantic comedy-drama film directed by Eric Schaeffer and starring Michelle Hendley as a trans woman living in a small town in Kentucky, looking for love.[1]
Plot
[edit]21-year-old Ricky is a transgender woman living in a small town in Kentucky with big dreams to move to New York and attend a school of fashion design. Ricky is working as a barista and spends most of her time hanging out with her only friend Robby, who has been by her side for the past 15 years. One day while Ricky is at work, Francesca, a woman from town, walks in and a friendship unexpectedly blossoms that then turns into an affair.
Cast
[edit]- Michael Welch as Robby Riley
- Robert Racco as 9-year-old Robby Riley
- Michelle Hendley as Ricky Jones
- Rachel Racco as 9-year-old Ricky Jones
- Alexandra Turshen as Francesca Duval
- Michael Galante as David
- Randall Newsome as Hank Jones
- Joseph Ricci as Sam Jones
- Elizabeth Ward Land as Helen Duval
- Christopher McHale as Dayton Duval
Critical reception
[edit]Gary Goldstein of the Los Angeles Times gave the film a favorable review, calling it a "lovely story, one which brims with credible, enormously heartfelt emotion".[2] The Washington Post gave it two stars out of four, stating that "Boy Meets Girl comes across not just as an emotional story, but also an earnestly instructive one."[3]
References
[edit]- ^ "Boy Meets Girl - About the Film". Boy Meets Girl Movie. Archived from the original on April 18, 2015. Retrieved April 9, 2015.
- ^ Goldstein, Gary (February 26, 2015). "Review: 'Boy Meets Girl' explores love, friendship". Los Angeles Times. Retrieved April 25, 2015.
- ^ Merry, Stephanie (February 2, 2015). "'Boy Meets Girl' movie review: A small-town transgender love story". The Washington Post. Retrieved April 25, 2015.
External links
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- 2014 films
- 2010s American films
- 2014 independent films
- 2014 LGBTQ-related films
- 2014 romantic comedy-drama films
- 2010s coming-of-age comedy-drama films
- 2010s English-language films
- American coming-of-age comedy-drama films
- American independent films
- American LGBTQ-related films
- American romantic comedy-drama films
- Coming-of-age romance films
- English-language independent films
- Films about female bisexuality
- Films about trans women
- Films directed by Eric Schaeffer
- Films set in Kentucky
- Films shot in Vermont
- LGBTQ-related coming-of-age comedy-drama films
- LGBTQ-related romantic comedy-drama films
- English-language romantic comedy-drama films