LITTLE ROCK — It is interesting that Abe Sylvia’s 1987-set Dirty Girl should open in Little Rock on the same weekend as Jason Reitman’s Young Adult, for the movies have a couple of resonances. In the first place, they both could be read as nostalgia-drenched mix-tapes full of pop songs that probably spoke deeply to the respective screenwriters (Sylvia and Diablo Cody) when they were fresh.
They are also nominally about unlikely alliances formed by high school stereotypes. In Young Adult, the snobby prom queen makes common cause with the overweight misfit the football team presumes is gay. In Dirty Girl, an overweight misfit who is actually gay (and an obvious surrogate for the film’s writer-director) hits the road with the school slut.And
MovieStyle, Pages 38 on 12/16/2011
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