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Jul 11, 2023 · Laurel Parmet’s The Starling Girl is a film about Jem’s relationship with Owen Taylor, her magnetic, much older youth pastor. But, as this scene reminds us, there is another connection central to the picture: Jem’s relationship with God.
May 10, 2023 · No, ‘The Starling Girl’ is not a true story. However, the writer of the screenplay, director Laurel Parmet herself, was inspired by her time spent within a fundamentalist Christian community and one particular experience of her own.
Jul 14, 2023 · It’s also a thorough picture of grievances about fundamentalist and evangelical Christian circles in two recent docuseries. It’s the coming-of-age story of 17-year-old Jem Starling, a dancer at a fundamentalist church in rural Kentucky.
May 23, 2023 · Scanlen portrays Jem Starling, a teenager growing up in a fundamentalist Christian community who finds herself courted in secret by her youth pastor. The pastor in question is played by Top Gun: Maverick 's Lewis Pullman, who walks the tightrope between danger and desire throughout his performance.
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May 21, 2023 · Little Women 's Eliza Scanlen stars as the titular protagonist, Jem Starling, a teenager whose life has revolved around following the precepts of her fundamentalist Christian until her desires lead her away from her upbringing.
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Set in a Christian fundamentalist community in Kentucky, it follows Jemima "Jem" Starling (Scanlen), a 17-year-old girl struggling with her religious beliefs as she romantically pursues married missionary Owen Taylor (Pullman).
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May 10, 2023 · Living in a fundamentalist Christian community in rural Kentucky, Jem is enamored of her church’s dance group but troubled by her parents’ suggestion that such a pursuit could lead her to sin, as well as by their desire to arrange her marriage to a church elder’s son (Austin Abrams).
