How to build a girl

Author

Coky Giedroyc

Call Number

• DVD COMEDY (CEN, EAS, WSQ)

Languages

In English, with optional Spanish subtitles; English subtitles for the deaf and hard of hearing, English descriptive audio.

Performers

Beanie Feldstein, Paddy Considine, Sarah Solemani, Alfie Allen, Frank Dillane, Laurie Kynaston, Arinzé Kene, Tadgh Murphy, Ziggy Heath, Bobby Schofield, Chris O'Dowd, Joanna Scanlon, Emma Thompson, Michael Sheen, Sue Perkins, Mel Giedroyc, Lily Allen, Gemma Arterton, Jameela Jamil, Lucy Punch, Sharon Horgan.

Publication Information

[Orland Park, IL] : MPI Media Group

Physical Description

1 videodisc (104 minutes) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.

Audience

MPAA rating: R; for sexual content, language throughout, and some teen drinking.

Summary

Johanna Morrigan is a bright, quirky, sixteen-year-old who uses her colorful imagination to regularly escape her humdrum life in Wolverhampton and live out her creative fantasies. Desperate to break free from the overcrowded flat she shares with her four brothers and eccentric parents, she submits an earnestly penned and off-beat music review to a group of self-important indie rock critics at a weekly magazine. Despite being brushed off initially, Johanna clamors to the top of the 90s rock music scene by reinventing herself as Dolly Wilde--a venerable, impossible-to-please music critic with an insatiable lust for fame, fortune, and men. It isn't long before the rapid pace at which Johanna's life is changing becomes overwhelming and she runs face-first into a devastatingly real, existential crisis. Is this the type of girl she wants to become? Or does she need to start over and build again from the ground up?

Notes

Title from container.

Based on the book by Caitlin Moran.

DVD release of the 2020 motion picture.

Special features: Featurettes ; interviews ; trailer.