Synopsis
As single mom Grace juggles work, bills, and her affair with a married doctor, her daughter, Ansiedad, plots a shortcut to adulthood after finding inspiration in the coming-of-age stories she's reading for school.
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Cast
- Eva MendesGrace
- Cierra RamirezAnsiedad
- Matthew ModineDr. Harford
- Landon LiboironTrevor
- Patricia ArquetteMs. Armstrong
- Raini RodriguezTavita
- Russell PetersEmile
- Eugenio DerbezMission Impossible
- Richard HarmonBad Boy
- Brenna O'BrienValerie
Recommandations
- 67
Austin Chronicle
Girl in Progress is an old story about a young girl told in a smart way, and that's something you don't see every day, no matter how many times you think you've seen it before. - 60
New York Magazine (Vulture)
The movie goes soft. But it has the unpretentious energy and charm of a good YA girls' novel. - 60
Movieline
Girl in Progress feels a little trapped by its own conceits: It plays with the idea that all rebellion is in some sense performed and makes a caricature out of the immature, attention-hungry mother, but it never liberates its characters from their molds. - 50
Time
Unfortunately, Girl in Progress doesn't upend anything; it just makes us weary of its wisecracking, oblivious teen and her ditzy mom. - 50
Variety
Never finds its own groove, alternating between high-school dramedy and overworked-single-mom narratives without ever really becoming a mother-and-daughter story until the closing scenes. - 40
Time Out
Uneasily poised between glib irony and earnest melodrama, Patricia Riggen's coming-of-age tale is as scattered as its manic pubescent protagonist. - 40
Village Voice
Unconvincing, flawed matriarch Mendes and junior showboat Ramirez appear to be acting in entirely different movies. - 38
Chicago Sun-Times
Ansiedad is a smart charmer, and well-played by Cierra Ramirez, she should really be above this sort of thing - above the whole movie, really.
