Tall Girl
2019
New Orleans
Nzingha Stewart
Adolescent Romantic Dramedy
What’s it all about: Tall girl Ava Michelle shows up at homecoming just long enough to make it all about how she’s tall, then chooses the wrong boy and goes home. Best friend Anjelika Washington wonders aloud if any of her self-absorbed friends will ever ask what’s going on in her life, but not even the movie cares enough to find out.
First Encounter: first viewing (a macaroni pick)
Prostitute Index: nil
Death By: self pity
Relics: Jan-Brady voices in your head (in Tall Girl 2, which we watched right after)
Hoops: the tall blonde foreign-exchange student who is Swedish; parents who just don’t understand
Heartthrobs: Luke Eisner, Paris Berelc, Clara Wilsey
Pass/Fails the Test of Time: Steve Zahn
LoFi Magic: prank phone call, knife-throwing teen beauty queen
Makes me want to: watch Tall Girl 2, which we did later the same day
Candotti Take: “Tell me about yourself: well, I am white, blonde and rich.”
Worth a watch/rewatch: Yes
Further reading: the excellent dissection by Tom Haynes at thetab.com, where I stole all my screenshots
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