The Girl Next Door (2004)

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Emile Hirsch (Milk, Killer Joe) stars in this sex comedy about a high school boy who falls in love with a porn star who moves in next door. Talk about a movie constructed around wish fulfillment! Things are complicated when the young woman’s porn producer ex-boyfriend comes looking for her and wants to take her back. For a sex comedy, things get a big grim in the second half of the film, when the ex-boyfriend (Timothy Olyphant) takes Hirsch’s character for a ride. Elisha Cuthbert makes the most of the title role, which is disappointingly thin. It’s not one of the more ebullient sex comedies, especially for one centered on such a fantastical premise. But it’s serviceable. With James Remar, Paul Dano, and Timothy Bottoms.

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