SUBURBAN GIRL

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Director: Marc Klein
Screenplay: Marc Klein
Gellar's role: Brett Eisenberg
With: Alec Baldwin, Peter Scolari, Jill Eikenberry
US Release Date: 27 April 2007
Length: 96 minutes
Genre: Comedy/Drama

Adapted from the short stories "My Old Man" and "The worst Thing a Suburban Girl Could Imagine", from the collection "The Girls' Guide to Hunting and Fishing" by Melissa Bank.

Brett Eisenberg is an assistant editor for a New York publishing company who is not doing all that well until she meets and gets romantically involved with prominent New York writer Archie Knox, an alcoholic, diabetic, and charming raconteur.

Brett's apartment and the backgrounds in some of the open air shots are visually pleasing, and Gellar does comedy well.

The Hollywood Reporter review the film after its screening at the 2007 Tribeca Film Fesitval: "Geller plays the titular character of Brett Eisenberg, the sort of spunky, ambitious go-getter, who, when she isn’t hanging out with her fashion designer friend Chloe (Maggie Grace), is prone to such activities as rearranging the books in a store window...Her loneliness is alleviated when she meets the much older Mr. Big, er, Archie Knox (Baldwin). He quickly becomes her mentor and lover, which comes in handy because of her difficulties with the new boss from hell (Vanessa Branch)."

Amber Wilkinson wrote in Eye For Film: "The film works best when Baldwin and Gellar are together - aside from the fact that Gellar seriously needs to eat a bun or two (there is one scene, in particular, in which Baldwin carries her up some steps with no more difficulty than if he were taking home the shopping). Her acting lacks weight, too, when she is out on her own, with several of her lines sounding as though they are being read rather than experienced. Baldwin, on the other hand, lifts the scenes he is in with his brand of easy charm an antidote to occasional outbreaks of cheese in the script."

Slideshow - Sarah Michelle Gellar in Suburban Girl

Molly Edwards put together a Suburban Girl Soundtrack playlist playlist on Spotify, which includes songs by (among others) Sarah Bareilles, Imogen Heap, and Leona Naess. All the music in the picture is listed on MovieChat.

The film was released in Germany as "Upper East Side Love".

SUBURBAN GIRL is available on Blu-ray.

CAST

• Sarah Michelle Gellar - Brett Eisenberg
• Alec Baldwin - Archie Knox
• Maggie Grace - Chloe
• James Naughton - Robert Eisenberg
• Chris Carmack - Jed
• Vanessa Branch - Faye Faulkner
• Peter Scolari - Mickey Lamm
• Marian Seldes - Margaret Paddleford
• Ebon Moss-Bachrach - Ethan Eisenberg
• Lanette Ware - Nikki
• Marin Ireland - Katie
• Nate Corddry - Jason
• Amad Jackson - Seaver
• Spencer Hawken - Grady Roberts
• Jason Antoon - Dean
• Stephanie Berry - Nurse
• Ian Blackman - Waiter
• Audra Blaser - Petal
• Melissa Brown - Jazmin
• Geoffrey Cantor - Library Curator
• Vincent De Paul - Mrs. Paddleford's Companion
• Daniel Hubbert - Bartender
• Vince Giantomasi - Jack
• Keith Jordan - Cute Guy
• Kane Manera - Theatergoer
• Rebecca Mae Palmer - Receptionist
• Stephen Payne - Cas Coyote
• Corinne Russell - Model
• Sorab Wadia - Taxi Driver
• Joann Socrates - Waiter #1
• Cullen Wheeler - Waiter #2
• Dennis Albanese - Cook