The Girl Next Door
A teenager in this romantic comedy finally falls in love with a former porn star who moved next door.
30 August 1951, Santa Barbara, California, USA
28 October 1957, Fort Worth, Texas, USA
19 July 1969
10 September 1979, Renton, Washington, USA
22 August 1984, Sonora, California, USA
1 February 1968, Winston-Salem, North Carolina, USA
31 May 1952, England, UK
20 May 1968, Honolulu, Hawaii, USA
10 March 1984, New York City, New York, USA
December 28, 2010
Stunningly bad teen sex comedy.April 29, 2009
The few saving graces are the gorgeous Elisha Cuthbert and the fun bad guy turn by Timothy Olyphant.April 09, 2004
Nothing in this film makes any sense, and Stuart Blumberg, David T. Wagner and Brent Goldberg's script merely gets more preposterous as it elaborates on its implausible premise.September 29, 2006
It is a movie full of contradictions that plays like a bad The Sure Thing melded uncomfortably together with an exploitative Risky Business.April 09, 2004
This funny, surprising gem joins the ranks of Risky Business and Say Anything.April 12, 2004
Risky Business, while cynical and salacious, also had style, charm and heart. The Girl Next Door is just nasty, loud and empty.April 09, 2004
Seems mainly about ripping off 1983's Risky Business without attribution.April 09, 2004
The picture feels fresh and audacious thanks to its smart script and sassy cast.May 04, 2009
The writing team of "National Lampoon's Van Wilder" crafted it as a satire about conflicting levels of sexual experience among teens, but fail to connect the significance of erotic pleasure to the emotional demands of budding adults.June 20, 2005
What sets the film apart from the competition is its willingness to confront its own subject matter in an honest way.April 17, 2004
The American male hypocrisy toward sexually active women in general -- and porn in particular -- is at the center of the new comedy The Girl Next Door. Unfortunately, instead of being the movie's target, it's the subtext.February 14, 2008
If it had been a porn film, at least it would've been made by people with some insight into the adult-film milieu, as opposed to people with insight into nothing.