Trailer Time: Dirty Girl, starring Juno Temple and Milla Jojovich

Juno Temple has had quite the run of good luck. Her first big mainstream role came a few years ago as part of the dreadful prehistoric comedy, Year One. Actually the entire cast of that turd(Olivia Wilde and Michael Cera included) are luck their careers didn't hit the side of a brick pyramid right then and there. Temple has found her niche as something of an indie darling, with a rowdy look that makes her instantly recognizable in pretty much everything she's in. I loved her earlier this year as a sex object in Gregg Araki's film, Kaboom. Her biggest film to date is on the horizon as she has a role in Christopher Nolan's The Dark Knight Rises. But long before that she'll be featured in Dirty Girl, a coming of age comedy from the debuting Abe Sylvia.


The film takes place in the 1980s in the small town of Norman, OK. Temple plays Danielle, a promiscuous girl who fancies herself apart from the rest of the beauty queens in town. She doesn't get along with her mother, played by Milla Jojovich, which only gets worse when she announces her intention to marry a Mormon(William H. Macy). Danielle befriends Clarke, her gay classmate, and the two go off on a road trip to Los Angeles to find her birth father.

The Weinstein Company snatched this up after it turned a few heads at the Toronto International Film Festival, and I'll be curious to see how they market it. I think focusing on the time period might be a mistake, especially since we've seen a pair of such nostalgia flicks fall flat on their faces recently(Take Me Home Tonight, Hot Tub Time Machine).  Based on this trailer, it looks like the only thing separating it from any number of movies just like it is the presence of Temple, who has a sensual, rebellious spirit that could make this intriguing. [Apple via ThePlaylist]