How is the pace fixable? if you play it with the VCL media player on your computer you can speed up it up, I chose 10% and it really helped. But it doesn't fix the movie entirely by any means. The lead characters don't really communicate, Paul Schneider's character mostly says nothing and Zoey Deshanel's character's dialog mainly consisted of either not knowing what to say or not knowing how to say it. (at least not until the end.) Spoilers until the next paragraph - There was no substantial way that they could build a relationship with that level of communication nor could it be based on the sex factor. The strong relationship was just not believable. Also, it's not believable that Paul Schneider's character suddenly went from being a callous a..hole at a loyal dedicated partner.I felt the movie was too chopped up in the beginning and made the movie confusing and hard to follow. Zoey Dashanel is one of my favorite actresses and I go into her movies with good points in it's favor. But I really can't recommend the movie at all.

In an attempt to draw mainstream attention and garner distribution deals, most independent films hide a rather saccharine, Hollywood plot beneath their gritty exteriors. "All The Real Girls" is no different, with its formulaic "boy meets girl, boy loses girl" plot, and its central rights of passage, in which our promiscuous hero learns the value of trust.What's different here is the film's aesthetic strategy. Directed by David Gordon Green, "Girls" subdues its central plot, dimming it down to a mere whisper. Green then foregrounds his environment, a derelict, North Carolinan mining town, and inserts many improvised moments and sequences, using a visual style comprised almost entirely of intuitively snatched shots. The result is a fairly poetic film which conjures up the works of Terrance Malick, Cassavetes and early Nicholas Roeg.Actors Zooey Dashanel and Paul Schneider play our young lovers, and like the rest of the film they ooze a certain rawness, a certain quiet sincerity. The plot they're stuck in, however, isn't up to the pretensions of Green's aesthetic. At its worst, "All The Real Girls" is as formulaic, small minded and contrived as any Hollywood romantic comedy. At its best, however, it's a moody little film, which preaches the importance of trust and the far reaching, painful ripples caused by, not only infidelity, but thwarted expectations. Specifically the expectations placed on men by women, a message Green conveys by mirroring the film's lead couple, a promiscuous guy and a virginal girl, with the Lothario's mother, a woman whose life has been damaged by a string of men who all abandoned her whenever the times got tough.End result: the film advocates growing up, caring about the wider ramifications of your actions, and living up to your responsibilities. After this film, director David Gordon Green would proceed to do the opposite, selling his soul to work on juvenile Hollywood sex comedies, some of which are underrated and covertly espouse the same values as "Girls": be responsible, compassionate and love your fellowman.8/10 – See "The Truth About Tully". Worth one viewing.

It's good every now and then to come across a film like All the Real Girls. Here is a romance which is realistic and virtually free of gimmick and clichés. It is also photographed beautifully, scored beautifully and characterized in a unusual and interesting manner. It is a film that leaves you thinking, but for all its goodness, it still needs a bit of work.In a small town, Paul has a reputation for having sex affairs with all the local girls (twenty- six to be exact). One day, his best friend's sister drives into town for a visit. She and Paul hang out together first as friends but eventually as a strange couple. it looks as if Paul is ready to go strait for the first time, something which is making his friends and family a little suspicious. What is to come?After the first hour, All the Real Girls is close to being a great film, but something goes wrong. I should point out that in addition to a romance, the movie is also a drama, and dramas need a conflict of some sort. Writer/Director David Gordon Green chooses to throw one in to begin the final act, and he does it in an overly forced, abrupt manner. The scenes which follow are not terrible, but they don't quite match the rest of the picture. They are less interesting and more melodramatic. The ending in fact is kind of sad, but it reminds you that this is not an artificial fictional story, this is a movie which delivers a potential real life scenario.Ignoring the mild errors, All the Real Girls is one of the most accomplished romance films I've seen lately, and it's worth watching.

I thought that this film would have been possibly the best independent American film I had seen in quite some time if Gordon-Green had just had the courage and panache to finish it a good 20 to 25 minutes earlier. The 'smoking' scene in the bedroom should have been the last scene of the movie - it is bleak, telling, sad, and rings oh so true,. Unfortunately, the movie drags onwards and downwards into contrivance, schmaltz... and becomes trite and silly.This film is a perfect example of an opportunity wasted. For the first hour and fifteen minutes it's like white-trash Eric Rohmer, then it becomes a pretentious TV-movie, ghastly.