

The Starling Girl
17-year-old Jem Starling struggles with her place within her Christian fundamentalist community. But everything changes when her magnetic youth pastor Owen returns to their church.
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- Language
- English
- dance
- christianity
- sin
- coming of age
- religion
- love affair
- alcoholic father
- woman director
- shame
- unassuming
- father daughter relationship
- mother daughter relationship
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Release dates
United StatesUS
- PremiereSundance Film Festival21 Jan 2023
- PremiereSouth by Southwest Film & TV Festival12 Mar 2023
- Theatrical (limited)R12 May 2023
- Digital / OTTR11 Jul 2023
- PhysicalR11 Jul 2023
United KingdomGB
- Digital / OTT15Sky Cinema28 Apr 2024
- TV15Sky Cinema28 Apr 2024
FranceFR
- Digital / OTT16VOD12 Jan 2024
GermanyDE
- Digital / OTT8 Jan 2024
PolandPL
- Digital / OTT169 Nov 2023
Puerto RicoPR
- Digital / OTTR11 Jul 2023
SwedenSE
- Theatrical (limited)1512 May 2023
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The Starling Girl was released on 12 May 2023.
Audience reviews
3- M7/10
Manuel São Bento
5/13/2023
FULL SPOILER-FREE REVIEW @ https://thatshelf.com/the-starling-girl-review/ "The Starling Girl addresses the impact of religion on young women's lives, particularly tackling how sexuality, love, freedom, and personal identity relate to fundamentalist pedagogy. A solid directorial debut by Laurel Parmet, deeply exploring a self-discovery arc by a compelling protagonist who represents countless women taught and force…
- B7/10
Brent Marchant
1/16/2024
What’s required to attain acceptance from others? That’s a tricky question, especially for those who are going through the coming of age process. It can be even more confounding for those who are part of a community that demands rigid conformity on an array of fronts. So it is for 17-year-old Jem Starling (Eliza Scanlen), a questioning young woman from a small Kentucky fundamentalist community. She wants to fit in, b…
- H9/10
Horseface
4/10/2024
Wonderful. Almost perfect. A gripping and moving story, small and intimate in style, but colossal in impact. Great performances all round, particularly the searing one by Eliza Scanlen, whom I hadn't heard of before, but I'll be looking forward to seeing her in something else. Strange how it's often the movies I keep postponing for later because I think they'll be boring that end up being the most enthralling and ent…
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