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Different for Girls

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Different for Girls (1996)

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Reviews Counted:23

Fresh:12

Rotten:11

Average Rating:6/10

Runtime: 1 hr 41 mins

Genre: Comedies

Synopsis: A ladies' man meets his match in Kim, a striking, sophisticated, and sexy woman. The only thorn in his side is that he and Kim were childhood pals...previous to Kim's major operation, when she was... A ladies' man meets his match in Kim, a striking, sophisticated, and sexy woman. The only thorn in his side is that he and Kim were childhood pals...previous to Kim's major operation, when she was Karl. But now the two re-evaluate their relationship and give romance a try. [More]

Starring: Rupert Graves, Steven Mackintosh, Miriam Margolyes, Saskia Reeves

Starring: Rupert Graves, Steven Mackintosh, Miriam Margolyes, Saskia Reeves, Charlotte Coleman, Neil Dudgeon, Nisha K. Nayar, Lia Williams, Ian Dury, Robert Pugh, Philip Davis, Rick Warden, Kevin Allen, Gerard Horan, Edward Tudor Pole, Adrian Rawlins, Peter-Hugo Daly, Shend, Llewella Gideon, Charles De'Ath, Robert Demeger, Malcolm Shields, Graham Fellows, Ruth Sheen, Christie Jennings, Stephen Walker, Blake Ritson, James D. White, Colin Ridgewell, Jamie Leyser

Director: Richard Spence

Director: Richard Spence
Producer: John Chapman
Composer: Stephen Warbeck
Screenwriter: Tony Marchant

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01/26/06
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This would be infinitely more likeable if it wasn't for some irritatingly unreal plot development.

Full Review Source: Empire Magazine | comment Comment
01/01/00
Rob Driscoll
Rob Driscoll
Empire Magazine
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Different for Girls staggers around, keeping its lovers apart as in any conventional romantic comedy.

Full Review Source: eFilmCritic.com | comment Comment
12/30/06
Rob Gonsalves
Rob Gonsalves
eFilmCritic.com

Toplined by handsome Brit thesp Rupert Graves, offbeat serio comedy concerns the evolving friendhsip and eventual love between a rambunctious macho and a quiet insecure transsexual.

Full Review Source: Variety | comment Comment
06/12/06
Emanuel Levy
Emanuel Levy
Variety
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Emanuel Levy
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05/14/03
Jeanne Aufmuth
Jeanne Aufmuth
Palo Alto Weekly

What makes this wonderfully deranged film fly is Rupert (“Maurice”; “Where Angels Fear to Tread”) Graves.

Full Review Source: Critics Inc./America Online | comment Comment
03/02/03
Brandon Judell
Brandon Judell
Critics Inc./America Online

No review available.

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08/29/02
Philip Martin
Philip Martin
Arkansas Democrat-Gazette

The story has a TV movie shorthand calculation and slightness.

Full Review Source: Globe and Mail | comment Comment
07/12/02
Liam Lacey
Liam Lacey
Globe and Mail

Bland and conventional, despite the sex-change angle, Different for Girls is ultimately not different enough.

Full Review Source: Boxoffice Magazine | comment Comment
06/05/02
Shlomo Schwartzberg
Shlomo Schwartzberg
Boxoffice Magazine

The film engages the audience on a gut level so that we care about Kim and Prentice.

Full Review Source: Film Scouts | comment Comment
04/17/02
Leslie Rigoulot
Leslie Rigoulot
Film Scouts

Well-acted but essentially go-nowhere little movie.

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01/01/00
E! Online
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It's a lot of fun.

Full Review Source: Salon.com | comment Comment
01/01/00
Andrew O'Hehir
Andrew O'Hehir
Salon.com

I don't mean to be a stick-in-the-mud, but apart from school days and friendly shared memories, these two truly have nothing in common.

Full Review Source: San Francisco Examiner | comment Comment
01/01/00
Barbara Shulgasser
Barbara Shulgasser
San Francisco Examiner

Not funny. Not interesting.

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01/01/00
Christopher Null
Christopher Null
Filmcritic.com

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One of the reasons why Different for Girls works is because of the caliber of acting.

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01/01/00
James Berardinelli
James Berardinelli
ReelViews

It's rather ordinary stuff.

Full Review Source: Sacramento Bee | comment Comment
01/01/00
Joe Baltake
Joe Baltake
Sacramento Bee

[Graves and Mackintosh] put in gobsmackingly good performances.

Full Review Source: Jam! Movies | comment Comment
01/01/00
Liz Braun
Liz Braun
Jam! Movies
 
 
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