If viewers do not 100% identify with her thoughts/feelings, all is lost. "The Starling Girl" is also a film that understandably falls on the shoulders of Scanlen in the lead role. Despite being interested in the actors, setting, and general content, I found myself fairly substantially bored 40 minutes in and it only drug out from there. Every character and theme (like organized religion, for instance) is given a surface-level treatment and nothing more. All the scenarios are-on the surface-both plausible and harboring much dramatic weight, not none of it is mined properly. My ratings of 3-stars or less are usually pretty few and far between, but this one dropped below that threshold due to an utter lack of real emotional connection to the characters. When the crush becomes "something more"-and Jem's fundamentalist mother (Wrenn Schmidt) and depressive father (Jimmi Simpson) complicate things-Jem is pulled into a rabbit hole of new emotions and real-world complications. For a very basic overview, "Starling Girl" tells the story of Jem (Eliza Scanlen), an adolescent girl who harbors a crush on youth pastor Owen (Lewis Pullman). Unfortunately, not even such an assemblage of acting talent can save "Starling Girl" from its utter lack of emotional depth beyond what is present at the surface level. From the trailer, "The Starling Girl" promises a coming-of-age tale (entwined with religion) featuring a remarkably star-studded cast for a smaller project.
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