The Girl in the Book (2015)

Directed by

Marya Cohn

Genre

drama film, coming-of-age film

Country

United States

Runtime

1h 26m

Rated

12

Rating

5.8 of 10 from 161 voters

Elsewhere

IMDb

How it feels

A young woman working in publishing confronts the lingering effects of a past relationship with an older author who wrote about her in a novel. The story shifts between her present life and the formative events of her teenage years.

introspectivemelancholictonally subduedcharacter-drivenbittersweetreflective

What happens

The Girl in the Book is a 2015 American drama film written and directed by Marya Cohn in her directorial debut. The film stars Emily VanCamp, Michael Nyqvist, David Call, Michael Cristofer, Talia Balsam and Ana Mulvoy-Ten. It had its world premiere at the Los Angeles Film Festival on June 13, 2015. The film was released in a limited release and through video on demand on December 11, 2015, by Myriad Pictures, and Freestyle Releasing. The Girl in the Book garnered a positive reception from critics who praised VanCamp's performance and Cohn's direction of her own script. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

Trailer

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