
Funny and provocative, Boy Meets Girl vividly captures the giddy excitement, sexual heat, and inherent heartache of "non-traditional" love in a small town. Ricky (Michelle Hendley) is a 21-year-old trans girl living in Kentucky. Her only real friend, straight-laced Robby, has been her trusty, totally platonic, confidant for over 15 years. Her day job slinging lattes is merely a stepping-stone toward her goal of being a famous New York designer. She's confident, cool, and comp... (Full plot summary below)
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Funny and provocative, Boy Meets Girl vividly captures the giddy excitement, sexual heat, and inherent heartache of "non-traditional" love in a small town. Ricky (Michelle Hendley) is a 21-year-old trans girl living in Kentucky. Her only real friend, straight-laced Robby, has been her trusty, totally platonic, confidant for over 15 years. Her day job slinging lattes is merely a stepping-stone toward her goal of being a famous New York designer. She's confident, cool, and completely ready for something new - and then her world is transformed when an enchanting debutante saunters into her life. Triggering fresh feelings and experiences, this unlikely connection conjures up intense questions about identity while uncovering ghosts from Ricky's past. Indie-film veteran Eric Schaeffer (My Life's in Turnaround, If Lucy Fell) builds a compelling, compassionate world that focuses on the emotions and messy challenges of complex people navigating complicated relationships. Schaeffer creates a thoroughly authentic small-town atmosphere, capturing the cozy and claustrophobic ambiance of a place where everyone knows your name - and your sexual partners.
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| Los Angeles TimesGary GoldsteinThe profoundly sensitive, often wryly funny look at friendship, romance, sexual attraction and gender identity carries themes and dynamics that feel as timeless as they do up-to-the-minute. |
| The Hollywood ReporterFrank ScheckBoy Meets Girl is a funny and touching comedy/drama boasting a superlative debut performance by Michelle Hendley. |
| Washington PostStephanie MerryOften, it feels conspicuously educational. The movie is far better when it focuses on its intimate story of love between family and friends in a small town. |
| The New York TimesJeannette CatsoulisPlacing sex and gender identity at the center of almost every conversation, the writer and director, Eric Schaeffer, is so keen to demythologize that the film’s potentially most affecting moments are too often smothered by the hackneyed characters and setups that surround them. |
| User ReviewSnowberrySo good. So freaking good. Best movie about a trans woman I have ever seen. They did everything right. Played by a trans woman. Were blunt about gender vs sexuality. Didn't end in tragedy. Tackled issues about suicide in the community. Showed the goodness of people when you are at your lowest. I am thankful for Michelle Hendley and the rest of the cast and members for making such a great movie. Not just for society at large, but especially for #GirlsLikeUs. |
| User Reviewnahtan1244This is movie is a very good but formulaic love story of a small town girl with her best friend who has feelings for her. she meets a friend of her best friend who she develops feelings for. However her best friend is in love with her too while her new friends fiance disapproves of Ricky's choice. she is a transgender girl who has to deal with some unwanted attention from her new friends finance and parents. This movie finds himself struggling to find out who she is and who she truly loves. The movie is great in that it teaches some important life lessons about being who you are and nobody can change that. The transgender boy was very good at portraying the struggle of loving diffrent people and the challenge it can bring even if it did feel a little bit formulaic it was still very good. |