Boy Meets Girl (2014 film)

Boy Meets Girl is a 2014 American romantic comedy-drama film directed by Eric Schaeffer and starring Michelle Hendley as a transgender woman living in a small town in Kentucky, looking for love.[1]

Boy Meets Girl
Theatrical release poster
Directed byEric Schaeffer
Produced by
  • Eric Schaeffer
  • Edward Aitken
  • Elisa Pugliese
  • Charles Blackstone
  • Rudolf J. Waldner
  • Gail Smerigan
Written byEric Schaeffer
Starring
Music byMatthew Puckett
Cinematography
  • Violetta D'Agata
  • Andrew Ravani
Edited byFrank Reynolds
Distributed byWolfe Video
Release date
Running time
99 minutes
CountryUnited States
LanguageEnglish

Plot

21-year old Ricky is a transgender woman living in a small town in Kentucky with big dreams to move to New York and attend a school of fashion design. Ricky is working as a barista and spends most of her time hanging out with her only friend Robby who has been by her side for the past 15 years. One day while Ricky is at work, Francesca, a woman from town, walks in and a friendship unexpectedly blossoms, which then turns into an affair.

Cast
  • Michael Welch as Robby Riley
    • Robert Racco as 9-year-old Robby Riley
  • Michelle Hendley as Ricky Jones
    • Rachel Racco as 9-year-old Ricky Jones
  • Alexandra Turshen as Francesca Duval
  • Michael Galante as David
  • Randall Newsome as Hank Jones
  • Joseph Ricci as Sam Jones
  • Elizabeth Ward Land as Helen Duval
  • Christopher McHale as Dayton Duval

Critical reception

Gary Goldstein of the Los Angeles Times gave the film a favorable review, calling it a "lovely story, one which brims with credible, enormously heartfelt emotion".[2] The Washington Post gave it two stars out of four, stating that "Boy Meets Girl comes across not just as an emotional story, but also an earnestly instructive one."[3]

References
  1. "Boy Meets Girl - About the Film". Boy Meets Girl Movie. Archived from the original on April 18, 2015. Retrieved April 9, 2015.
  2. Goldstein, Gary (February 26, 2015). "Review: 'Boy Meets Girl' explores love, friendship". Los Angeles Times. Retrieved April 25, 2015.
  3. Merry, Stephanie (February 2, 2015). "'Boy Meets Girl' movie review: A small-town transgender love story". The Washington Post. Retrieved April 25, 2015.
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