The Dead Girl
(2006)
crime drama
directed
by : Karen Moncrieff
featuring
: Toni Collette - Rose Byrne - Mary Beth Hurt - Marcia Gay Hayden - Brittany
Murphy
running
time : 1 hour 34 minutes
Karen Moncrieff, the Independent Spirit-award
nominated director of Blue Car, assembles a stellar cast comprised of Toni
Collette, James Franco, Giovanni Ribisi, and Mary Beth Hurt to tell the
tale of one girl's mysterious death, and how the tragic actions of the
people who surround her eventually led to her savage murder. When the brutalized
and lifeless body of a once vital young girl (Brittany Murphy) is discovered,
a community is scarred by the unspeakable horror of seeing one of their
own so viciously desecrated. But the discovery of the body is just the
beginning of the story, and now as a wife uncovers her husband's dark secret,
a mother searches frantically for her missing daughter, and a series of
other, seemingly unrelated occurrences slowly begin to converge, the heartbreaking
truth behind a tragic act of violence will shake the very foundation of
a once close-knit community.