HOW TO BUILD A GIRL
synopsis
It’s 1990. Johanna Morrigan (Beanie Feldstein) is sixteen, smart, opinionated and overweight. Hormones raging, she is desperate to get out of her home town and make a name for herself – which she does, reinventing herself as Dolly Wilde, bad-ass music critic. Gaining notoriety as an enfant terrible, she has finally figured out how to build a girl – but is this the girl she wanted to build?
| international title: | How to Build a Girl |
| original title: | How to Build a Girl |
| country: | United Kingdom |
| sales agent: | Protagonist Pictures |
| year: | 2019 |
| genre: | fiction |
| directed by: | Coky Giedroyc |
| film run: | 102' |
| screenplay: | Caitlin Moran |
| cast: | Beanie Feldstein, Alfie Allen, Paddy Considine, Chris O'Dowd, Emma Thompson |
| cinematography by: | Hubert Taczanowski |
| film editing: | Gary Dollner, Gareth C. Scales |
| art director: | Amanda McArthur |
| costumes designer: | Stephanie Collie |
| music: | Oli Julian |
| producer: | Alison Owen, Debra Hayward |
| executive producer: | Daniel Battsek, Ollie Madden, Sue Bruce-Smith, Tim Headington, Lia Buman, Zygi Kamasa, Emma Berkofsky |
| production: | Monumental Pictures, Film4, Lionsgate |
| backing: | BFI Locked Box (UK) |
| distributor: | Lionsgate |
