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The Starling Girl

6.3(82)20231h 56m2

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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Released
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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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United Kingdom, United States of America

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  • 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

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    Manuel São Bento

    5/13/2023

    7/10

    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…

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    Brent Marchant

    1/16/2024

    7/10

    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…

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    Horseface

    4/10/2024

    9/10

    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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