This Girl's Life (2004)

Thanks for the memories!

best movie i've ever seen.

An Exercise In Nonsense

A Masterpiece!

James Woods is amongst my all-time favorite actors. A Remarkable, Brilliant Performer who's yet to win an Academy-Award! In 'This Girl's Life', Woods delivers an Astonishing Performance, that defines Talent. He plays a man suffering from Parkinson's disease. An Impeccable Performance! 'This Girl's Life' is a "Slice of life" take on life of international porn celebrity, Moon, and her musings on modern life, love and loss.'This Girl's Life' is a depressing & brutal film, but its pretty effective. I Loved It. Ash's Screenplay & Direction, both, are brutal, depressing & yet effecting. Its a no-holds-barred take on humans & its a really good one. Ash deserves credit for churning out A Career Best-Performance by Woods. Woods has NEVER been this good.I strongly recommend 'This Girl's Life'. Its an effective film & Woods is just out of this world.

One of the first things she says at the beginning of the movie is she wasn't abused like you usually think people in the sex industry were but it doesn't have to be abuse; a trauma is a trauma regardless of abuse and her mother committed suicide when she was a child that is a major trauma. even the man she's dating points out that she doesn't feel and won't let him in that would be because she suffered from so much pain as a child when her mother committed suicide and she was numb. I was not abused and did not suffer from that big of a trauma as a child and I have no desire to be in the porn industry! I did find the movie very interesting though to see into her life

Not exactly a porn movie, although there is brief male full frontal nudity. Filmed in a pseudo documentary style, this Indie drama looks at porn star Moon(Juliette Marquis)and her rise to fame and her tribulations to leave the business. She loves sex, and uses most of her earnings doing porn to take care of her father(James Woods), who suffers Parkinson's. Trying to leave porn behind, she supplements her income by investigating the trust and testing monogamy of other women's men. Her life is put in peril when trying to entice a car salesman(Michael Rapaport), who likes it rough and angry. Marquis has a stunning beauty and at times will remind you of Angelina Jolie. Woods probably works the hardest as a very convincing character with Parkinson's. Others in the cast: Tomas Arana, Kip Pardue, Isaiah Washington, Cheyenne Silver and Sean Douglas.Rated R for very graphic scenes of sex, strong language and of course nudity.

After the success of the inexpensively made trade movie "Boogie Nights," one might expect a series of even cheaper and less skillful ripoffs. The usual trajectory for ripoffs would be more sex and less character.I suppose in some ways, we wouldn't have "This Girl's Life" if we hadn't had "Boogie Nights," but this film is actually pretty good. If the earlier film was mostly an ensemble effort, this one depends on Juliette Marquis. We see things almost exclusively from her point of view. She's a porn star with a heart of gold and some brains. It sounds like a cliché, but she pulls it off okay. She's not exactly beautiful but she is sexy and exotic and has a nasal voice that sometimes drops into the lower register.But Marquis gets surprisingly good support from such mainstream players as Rosario Dawson, and adequate support from Cheyenne Silver, a genuine star of sex films who has a fresh-faced attractiveness that suggests she grew up on a farm and fed on nothing but cream and ripe strawberries. Anyone who wants to see what she looks like all over can easily have his curiosity satisfied with a bit of effort.James Woods is super as Pops, Marquis' father who is stricken with Parksinson's disease. He's a courageous actor, wandering around in public with what seems to be an enormous head and a shrunken flabby body. The only investment of ego on display is his talent.If "Boogie Nights" showed us that the sex movie industry of the 1970s was like a family, "This Girl's Life" demonstrates that the family is not entirely functional these days. The head of the studio keeps carrying on paternally about how we are all one big -- incestuous -- family, but when he wants one of his girls to do something that she does not want to do, he prompts her to do a line of coke and shoves her roughly against a wall. Spare the rod and spoil the child, you know.The director has Marquis talk directly to the camera on several occasions, as if this were a reality TV show. She shows us how a microvideocamera works, a "spy camera" like that used in police and FBI stings. And there are times when scenes appear as if shot with one of those tiny cameras, all fuzzy and with horizontal lines. Not sure what the point of that was. And I'm not sure what happens to Pop either. His case seems to be hanging in the air at the end when, after a violent encounter with a man whose life Marquis has just professionally put an end to, she takes off with her naive young monogamous lover.I assume -- I HOPE -- that she finally got back to taking care of Pops, because his disorder is rather advanced and it would take him an hour to peel a banana.In any case, the very amateurishness of some of the performances contributes to the documentary feel of the film, but it's a documentary that is emotionally charged.A surprise, well worth watching.