SUBURBAN GIRL

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Director: Marc Klein
Screenplay: Marc Klein
Gellar's role: Brett Eisenberg
With: Alec Baldwin, Peter Scolari, Jill Eikenberry
US Release Date: 27 April 2007
Length: 96 minutes
Genre: Comedy/Drama

“She tells me she's been reading a terrible book called 'How to Meet and Marry Mr. Right' Their main advice is to play hard to get. Basically it's a guide to manipulation. I say that maybe she should stop reading it. 'I know,' she says, only half agreeing. 'But it's like I've been trying to catch a fish by swimming around with them. I keep making myself get in the water again. I try different rivers. I change my strokes. But nothing works. Then I find the guide that tells me about fishing poles and bait, and how to cast and what to do when the line gets taut,' She stops and thinks. 'The depressing part is that you know it will work.' I say 'I hate fish'."
---- from The Girls' Guide to Hunting and Fishing by Melissa Bank. Suburban Girl was adapted from two short stories in this collection: "My Old Man", and "TheWorst Thing A Suburban Girl Could Imagine".

Brett Eisenberg is an assistant editor for a New York publishing company who is not doing all that well until she meets and gets romantically involved with prominent New York writer Archie Knox, an alcoholic, diabetic, and charming raconteur.

Sarah Michelle Gellar - Suburban Girl
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Brett's apartment and the backgrounds in some of the open air shots are visually pleasing, and Gellar does comedy well.

Asked about Suburban Girl, Gellar told Evan Ross Katz of the Shut Up Evan Podcast: "That book "Girls Guide to Hunting and Fishing" was one of my favorites and I met with the director and I wasn't even on the list at the beginning. The list was way longer than my name was ever going to have a chance, you know, like the royal succession. It was never happening for me. And I met with the director and I just like laid it all out. Why I love this book, why I love this character, And then I get a call that he wants me to do it. And let me tell you, this movie fell apart so many times and I just was determined to keep it together. I stalked the leading actor, like begged him, he backed out. I convinced him to come back. You know, I I love that movie and it just didn't totally work in the end. Part of the problem was we didn't even have rights to the name because the book was sold off by chapters."

The Hollywood Reporter review the film after its screening at the 2007 Tribeca Film Fesitval: "Geller plays the titular character of Brett Eisenberg, the sort of spunky, ambitious go-getter, who, when she isn’t hanging out with her fashion designer friend Chloe (Maggie Grace), is prone to such activities as rearranging the books in a store window...Her loneliness is alleviated when she meets the much older Mr. Big, er, Archie Knox (Baldwin). He quickly becomes her mentor and lover, which comes in handy because of her difficulties with the new boss from hell (Vanessa Branch)."

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Molly Edwards put together a Suburban Girl Soundtrack playlist playlist on Spotify, which includes songs by (among others) Sarah Bareilles, Imogen Heap, and Leona Naess. All the music in the picture is listed on MovieChat.

The film was released in Germany as "Upper East Side Love".

SUBURBAN GIRL is available on Blu-ray. In Italy, the film can be streamed on Amazon Prime Video.

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