The Dead Girl
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75% Rotten Tomatoes Initial DVD release May 8, 2007 Language English | 6.7/10 65% Genre Crime, Drama, Mystery Duration Country United States | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Release date 29 December 2006 (2006-12-29) Cast (Arden), (Arden's Mother), (Rudy), (Derek), (Leah), (Beverley, Leah's Mother) Similar movies Mad Max: Fury Road , Self/less , The Last Witch Hunter , Jupiter Ascending , The Avengers , Knock Knock Tagline One life ends. Seven others begin. |
In a quintet of stories, the murder of a young runaway (Brittany Murphy) connects a group of unrelated women. Lonely Arden (Toni Collette) discovers the body; Leah (Rose Byrne), a forensics student, thinks the victim may be her long-missing sister. Melora (Marcia Gay Harden) arrives in Los Angeles to piece together the last days of her daughters life, while Ruth (Mary Beth Hurt) makes a disturbing discovery in the storage facility she and her husband manage.
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The Dead Girl is a 2006 American film written and directed by Karen Moncrieff, starring Brittany Murphy, Toni Collette, Rose Byrne and Marcia Gay Harden. The film was nominated for several 2007 Independent Spirit Awards including Best Feature and Best Director. It is the story of a young womans death and the people linked to her murder. It also features Mary Beth Hurt, Kerry Washington, James Franco, Giovanni Ribisi, Josh Brolin, Mary Steenburgen and Piper Laurie. The film was premiered at the AFI Film Festival (7 November 2006), and was given a limited US theatrical release on 29 December 2006. It was generally well received. It only ran for two weeks in US first-run theaters, and earned nearly all its revenue from overseas release.

The clues to a young woman's death come together as the lives of seemingly unrelated people begin to intersect.
Plot
The movie is presented in five segments, each bearing a title:
Cast
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