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5 Girls Review
Overall 4.00 of 5
(by 1 user)
Watch 5 Teenage Girls Come of Age Through Very Different Circums
into Independent Films, mother of 11-year-old girl, Movie Reviewer, a storyteller, A Big Giant Sap
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APR
29
2008
This documentary follows five Chicago area high school girls around, watching the way they live their lives at school, at home, their extracurricular activities, etc. The girls couldn't have been more diverse. There is Corrie, the oldest of the girls, already a senior, and very bold with identifying herself as bisexual, Aisha, a basketball player that struggles, feeling pulled between her recently separated parents, Toby, the youngest at 13 with a very bouncy, dramatic personality, Amber, who left her mother's house to live basically on her own, and has an older boyfriend currently on house arrest, and Haibinh, Vietnamese, and in this country since she was 10, as her parents wanted her and her sisters to get a better education.
5 Girls follows as these young girls approach adulthood, going through the difficult circumstances of their every day life. Just between this handful of girls, they're dealing with parental divorce, not getting along with their parents, overprotective parents, and the death of parent. Some of them seem to fit in, and others don't fit in at all. All of them do well in high school, and the older ones are all working hard to get to college. They all do well in school, including Amber, living on her own, and pursuing a career in law. Two of them go to prom during the duration of the filming.
The film follows the five girls for two full school years, placing two of them completely out of high school. In the extras on the DVD we have updates on the girls throughout the years since the filming was initially finished in 2001. The youngest is still in college, and others are now out in the workforce or pursuing undergraduate studies.
I'm hoping the producers find a way to keep up with these 5 Girls throughout their lives, as now that they've let me into their life. They all talked so honestly about their feelings about everything in their life, I feel as if I'm a part of it.
5 Girls is recommended by LauraBelle
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