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Girlfight is a 2000 American sports drama film written and directed by Karyn Kusama in her feature directorial debut, and stars Michelle Rodriguez in her first film role.
May 26, 2024 · Girlfight, the story of a troubled high schooler who takes up boxing in secret as an outlet for her frustrations, aches with high school emotions in and out of the boxing ring. At the same time,...
May 23, 2024 · Director Karyn Kusama talks about casting Michelle Rodriguez in her first role and why it was important that her debut film be beautiful in spite of its rough world. On January 22, 2000, writer...
- Jim Hemphill
Girlfight. Bullied by her father at home and feeling adrift at school, Diana Guzman (Michelle Rodriguez) finds refuge in an unexpected pocket of her native Brooklyn—a timeworn boxing gym, where she learns to channel her strength, discovers a sense of community, and falls for a rival fighter.
- Diana Guzman
Oct 6, 2000 · Girlfight: Directed by Karyn Kusama. With Michelle Rodriguez, Jamie Tirelli, Paul Calderon, Douglas Santiago. Diana, without her father knowing it, trains as a boxer and achieves impressive success, blazing new trails for female boxers.
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- Drama, Sport
- Karyn Kusama
- 2000-10-06
Sep 29, 2000 · "Girlfight" looks like a sports picture, but it's really more of a character study, in which boxing is the way that Diana finds direction in her life. She and Tiny live at home with their dad (Paul Calderon). Old angers simmer about the death of their mother.
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May 28, 2024 · Girlfight does not try to answer these questions, but it does show us what it looks like when women reject the scant offerings they have been handed and take what they know to be theirs. When researching this essay, I was fascinated by how many texts and reviews came back to that opening sequence of shots of Diana: its distinctive verve and menace.
