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Whit Stillman's Damsels in Distress is a comedy about a trio of beautiful girls as they set out to revolutionize life at a grungy American university - the dynamic leader Violet Wister (Greta Gerwig), principled Rose (Megalyn Echikunwoke) and sexy Heather (Carrie MacLemore). They welcome transfer student Lily (Analeigh Tipton) into their group which seeks to help severely depressed students with a program of good hygiene and musical dance numbers. The girls become romantically entangled with a series of men-including smooth Charlie (Adam Brody), dreamboat Xavier (Hugo Becker) and the mad frat pack of Frank (Ryan Metcalf) and Thor (Billy Magnussen)-who threaten the girls' friendship and sanity... -- (C) Sony Pictures Classics

Runtime: 99 minutes

Starring: Greta Gerwig , Carrie MacLemore , Megalyn Echikunwoke , Analeigh Tipton , Adam Brody

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Reviews - Damsels in Distress

Detroit News - The film would probably drag if it weren't so perfectly cast, especially with the gawky-beautiful Gerwig as its center. read full review
Film.com - For the most part, it's a film filled with simple pleasures... read full review
Miami Herald - Damsels in Distress ambles about amiably without much of a narrative: Plot has never been Stillman's strong suit, and in this film he seems particularly indifferent to its demands. read full review
Seattle Times - There's a self-consciousness to "Damsels" that takes away much of the fun. read full review
Time Out - While the comedy might be patchy, Gerwig and Stillman make for quite the two-step. read full review
Minneapolis Star Tribune - It's a slight piece of work, but agreeably peculiar and endearing. read full review
Newsday - The acting and the music are delightful, the jokes arrive on schedule, and everything sort of glows. read full review
Philadelphia Inquirer - Whit Stillman? I'm there. read full review
Boston Globe - This a fun group of actors to watch, although it often seems that Stillman is unsure of what to do with them. read full review
Arizona Republic - Presumably meant to come off as affected in a comical way, the characters too often sound arrogant and ridiculous. Sometimes that's funny. Sometimes it's not. The ratio doesn't really work out the way you would like. read full review
Toronto Star - Fortunately, Damsels has an abundance of the erudite zingers that Stillman excels at writing, and that make his elegantly staged works seem like period pieces, even though they're set in modern times. read full review
Chicago Reader - The premise -- young rich people discover themselves -- recalls that of Stillman's older features, but his characteristic naturalism is replaced here by overlit scenes, a saccharine symphonic score, and a halting narrative momentum. read full review
Washington Post - A movie sure to reward the filmmaker's most die-hard fans, while doing little to quiet critics who found his work self-conscious to the point of insufferability. read full review
San Francisco Chronicle - Flat scenes, weak characters and a disjointed and almost nonexistent narrative. read full review
Chicago Tribune - [It] concerns a young woman either adopted by a fabulously odd trio of new pals or indoctrinated into the most twee cult in collegiate history. It's all in your receptivity to Stillman's brittle humor. read full review
Chicago Sun-Times - It's delightful and a little bewildering to find a 2012 comedy that evokes a world that exists only in the novels of P.G. Wodehouse. read full review
New Yorker - It's a cri de coeur that hardly rises above a sociable interjection, an exhortation to collective revelry that leaves a sense of uneasily imposed, even quasi-martial, paces. read full review
Slate - Too ethereal to be a satire and too arch to be a psychologically recognizable character portrait, Damsels in Distress flits prettily by without ever finding anything to be about. read full review
NPR - Even were it not so delightful, Damsels in Distress, set at a fictional upper-crust college, would deserve a watch for its dialogue alone. read full review
The Wrap - While by no means his strongest work, even secondary Stillman goes leaps and bounds beyond what most of today's hacks try to pass off as romantic comedy. read full review

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