A genre-bending tale of a boy trying to fulfill his unrequited love for a girl who has risen from the grave.A genre-bending tale of a boy trying to fulfill his unrequited love for a girl who has risen from the grave.A genre-bending tale of a boy trying to fulfill his unrequited love for a girl who has risen from the grave.
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- TriviaThe movie "Trespasser" that Patrick and Carol watch on TV is made up of re-edited footage from a deleted subplot that further explained Wendy's mysterious reanimated state.
- GoofsAs Rody walks home during his introduction his shoes change from shot to shot.
- Crazy creditsDuring the cast credits the name of the actress playing the librarian suddenly changes from Cheri Glor to Pam Lanham.
- Alternate versionsThe cut shown at the Atlanta Film Festival in April of 2008 was 108 minutes long without credits. This version contained: an expanded funeral sequence where Rody placed a red mix-tape into Wendy's coffin/later Patrick stealing the mix-tape from the coffin/an awkward post funeral conversation at Wendy's parents house between her father and the leads/a sequence of Brian walking home and Addy picking him up on the side of the road/a long transitional montage of Addy playing the piano previous to Carol's date/Patrick and Carol deciding to hide Wendy in Rody's sister's room. Additionally, many scene heads and tails were deleted from the Atlanta cut to achieve the current 105 minute runtime (with credits).
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Written by Eric Lehning and Jordan Lehning
Performed by the Non-Commissioned Officers
Published by Oh No Skippy/Eric Lehning
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Unlike Deadgirl, which was released around the same time, this movie struck me as pretentious nonsense that exists only to showcase the indie cred of all involved. There wasn't anything really *wrong* with it, per se, but I found myself constantly rolling my eyes and sighing heavily. Most of the scenes are melodramatic, though the acting is decent enough. None of the characters ever seem to express any strong emotions, though I suppose that's probably the fault of the writers/directors than the actors. Speaking of the writing, it was pretty mediocre. I've seen much, much worse, but with the pretentiousness of the directing, I was really expecting something a bit deeper. The soundtrack seems to be a major part of the experience, and I'm sure that if you're one of those hipsters who can't get enough of pretentious, derivative pop music, you'll love it to death. Unfortunately, I don't think I was in the target demographic for this movie. Some movies can transcend their genre and target demographic, like The Good, The Bad, and The Ugly (spaghetti western), The Shining (horror), and The Godfather (crime drama). That requires good directing and writing, however, and this movie simply can't rise above the silly pretensions of the Smeagol brothers (or whatever). If you're into this sort of thing (pretentious "indie" movies), you'll probably love it, but I was overcome by boredom and annoyance.
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- Wendy, Darling
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- $150,000 (estimated)
- Runtime1 hour 45 minutes
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- 1.78 : 1
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