
Set in a small town in North Carolina, George Washington is the story of a tight-knit multi-racial group of working-class kids caught in a tragic lie. After a twelve-year-old girl breaks up with her boyfriend for a sensitive, deeply introspective thirteen-year-old boy named George, a bizarre series of events and an innocent cover-up launches their insular group on individual quests for redemption.... (Full plot summary below)
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Set in a small town in North Carolina, George Washington is the story of a tight-knit multi-racial group of working-class kids caught in a tragic lie. After a twelve-year-old girl breaks up with her boyfriend for a sensitive, deeply introspective thirteen-year-old boy named George, a bizarre series of events and an innocent cover-up launches their insular group on individual quests for redemption.
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| Chicago Sun-TimesRoger EbertLike Malick's "Days of Heaven," it is not about plot, but about memory and regret. It remembers a summer that was not a happy summer, but there will never again be a summer so intensely felt, so alive, so valuable. |
| Christian Science MonitorDavid SterrittGreen tells the tale through leisurely, eye-catching shots that allow the young cast members to imbue their characters with striking credibility and intensity. |
| Chicago TribuneMichael WilmingtonA peculiar combination of willful meandering and matter of fact violence, and it occasionally confounds in its attempts to exalt. |
| Austin ChronicleMarjorie BaumgartenDirector David Gordon Green has made a work of uncommon beauty and intelligence, one that is smart enough to trust its characters and the technical contributions of its crew. |
| Rolling StonePeter TraversMay turn out to be the finest American indie of the year. |
| The New York TimesA.O. ScottThis dream of a movie is set in such a place; with its delicate shifts of tone, it could be a fairy tale by Faulkner |
| The DissolveScott TobiasGeorge Washington is a mood piece first, and its triumph is in bottling up the intense feeling of early adolescence, and watching how tragedy transforms it. |
| New York Daily NewsElizabeth WeitzmanNone of the children are professionals, and their uncontrived performances lend a painfully real quality to what becomes a rather lyrical story. |
| Seattle Post-IntelligencerWilliam ArnoldA first-rate student film, but not much more. |
| Philadelphia InquirerCarrie RickeyHardly perfect or fully successful, but it's strange and strangely beautiful -- a unique work of art. |