'The Girl Next Door' is a film of which it can reasonably be asked, how did this get made? Emile Hirsch is a bookish California high school senior, whose life gets much more complicated when porn star Elisha Cuthbert movies in next door. This is one of those movies that acts like it wants it both ways, porn is bad as Cuthbert wants to stop doing it, but has self worth issues and keeps getting pulled back in, but also porn is fun, let's secretly film a porn movie in our high school during prom.
This is an odd piece, it would be interesting to see what the original concept was and follow it through the various drafts that lead to the final product, a story of inconsistent character motivations, baffling morals, and a last act which laughs manically at cohesion and offers one of the more credulity straining resolutions I've seen in film. It's not good, but its more then watchable and at times fascinatingly bad. I'm gonna cop out as well and give this **.
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