These Girls (2005) ....Keith Clarck

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3rd April 2006

Review by a fan (posted with permission)

So, I went to the Philadelphia Film Festival to see These Girls this morning, and let me start off by saying *SQUEEEE!!!* Okay, now that I've got my display of fangirlyness over with...

The movie was great! Even my mom, who took me to see it, loved it; and neither of us (or the audience) could stop laughing throughout. It was very funny, although it did have its dark moments. I thought the whole thing was very tastefully done with very good acting, especially on DB's part(not that I wasn't expecting him to be great ;). Some of the funniest moments were his reactions and faces when the girls decide to share him. Also, David holding a baby in his arms is STILL the cutest thing in the known universe.

Also, the director (John Hazlett) was there. He started out by saying that David really wished he could be there(since he grew up in Philly) and that he sends his regards. At the end there was a Q and A session. Most of the people asked about technical things about the movie. One person asked how David became involved, and Hazlett said that he sent him the script and he loved it so much that he agreed to do it immediately. Hazlett also said that he talked to DB's dad(Philly weatherman Dave Roberts) last night, and he said that David had sent him the script too right after he read it.

Since no one seemed to be asking very many q's about DB, I said that I knew DB likes to have a lot of fun on set, and asked if there were any pranks or interesting stories behind the scenes. He said that there wasn't much time for any pranks, but that DB was always messing around between takes.

Also, in the preview there's a part where two of the girls walk in on Keith and Lisa. Keith thinks its his wife and jumps up(clothingless). Hazlett said that the art department was supposed to have left a pillow lying on the end of the bed for him to grab and hold in front of him, but they forgot. So DB improvised and grabbed a jewelry box, which is much smaller and didn't do a very good job in covering up certain things, if you know what I mean ;). Let's just say I saw WAY more of DB than I ever have before. *faints*

crédits : ataralasse ~ Bones board

20th March 2006

These Girls will be playing at The Philadelphia Film Festival, which runs from March 30th to April 11. The film will screen on April 1st and 2nd. Fans of David Boreanaz may know that Philly is his hometown so maybe he will show up for the screening. I will be there for sure if that makes any difference. Looking forward to taking These Girls to 'The City of Brotherly Love'

John Hazlett

19th March 2006

Three actresses have a hoot chasing a hunk in These Girls

http://www.edmontonsun.com/ By LOUIS B. HOBSON, CALGARY SUN

When the three young women in These Girls decide to have some late summer fun, they pull out all the stops.

In this coming-of-age comedy from John Hazlett, an Alberta filmmaker who relocated to Quebec in 2000, the recent high school graduates decide to seduce a 30-something stud.

The girls are played by Caroline Dhavernas, Amanda Walsh and Holly Lewis, and the object of their lust is David Boreanaz, the former tortured vampire of TV's Angel, who now stars in Fox's Bones.

Lewis, who plays the only virgin of the three friends, says Boreanaz was "a great sport. He knew we were all nervous about the sex scenes we'd have with him, and me in particular with the most explicit one.

"He took us all for dinner. He talked about his wife (actress Jamie Bergman) and how much he loved her. He made us all feel so safe. After that he kept his distance because he knew it would work better for the film and all our characters.

"We sort of saw David as an older-brother figure and not a sex object like the girls do in the film."

Though hidden under bedsheets, both Boreanaz and Lewis were nude for their sex scene.

'EVEN MORE NERVOUS'

"We didn't talk all that much about the scene, except for a few of the mechanics, and then we improvised all the dialogue."

Lewis admits her confidence abandoned her the actual day of shooting.

"Thankfully, it was one of the last days of our (21-day) shoot or I'd have been even more nervous than I was. But it really paid off for the scene.

"I think I was as nervous as my character."

It wasn't her sex scene with Boreanaz that had Dhavernas shaking and shivering.

"The movie is supposed to take place at the height of a Canadian summer, but we filmed it in New Brunswick in October. It was so cold, especially the scene where we're sitting on the dock in our bikinis," recalls Dhavernas. "All the crew members were wearing goose down jackets, mitts and tuques. There we were in bikinis. Between shoots they wrapped us in thermal blankets.

"We had to pretend the chilly October breeze was warm. That's where all our concentration went in that scene."

These Girls, opening locally on Friday, was filmed in Shediak, which Dhavernas says is "the lobster capital of Canada, so we had our fill of seafood.

"We also had the run of the town.

"It's a huge tourist town during the summer, but we rented bikes and rode all over the town undisturbed."

Dhavernas, who was born and raised in Montreal, has been acting professionally since she was 12.

"I started doing voice-over work when I was eight. I was a shy child and my father, who is an actor, thought doing voice work would help me come out of my shell."

She says when she filmed Comme un Voleur at age 12, she "fell in love with acting.

"It was the only thing I wanted to do with my life."

Her life became a series of popular Quebec soap operas, which made her a household name in her province.

Since completing These Girls, Dhavernas has worked on three high-profile projects slated for release later this year.

In Hollywoodland, the story of the mystery surrounding the death of the original Superman, actor George Reeves (Ben Affleck), she plays the mistress of the detective (Adrien Brody) working on the murder case.

In the CIA spy thriller Breach she plays Ryan Phillippe's wife, and in the Quebec drama The Beautiful Monsters, she stars opposite Marc-Andre Grondin, the young star of the Genie award-winning Quebec film C.R.A.Z.Y.

"I have been so lucky in my leading men recently. They are all so talented and all such generous co-stars."

Walsh, who plays the only teenager who actually falls in love with the older man, says, "I knew we were making a wild comedy, but I soon forgot how funny the script was. The whole situation is a tragedy for my character.

"She really is in love with David's character. It may be fun and funny for the other two girls, but it was really painful for mine."

Walsh is adamant her mood switched instantly once she left the set of These Girls each day.

"The film company very cleverly put Caroline, Holly and I in the same little bed-and-breakfast place in Shediak. It was like living in a tiny dorm.

"We became the best of friends, so we understood the relationships of our characters much better. We've all kept in touch ever since."

'REALLY BOISTEROUS'

Walsh admits when she told her real girlfriends that she was playing Boreanaz's lover, they "gave me a really difficult time. They are such huge Angel fans. They were very envious."

Walsh says Boreanaz is "a really boisterous guy and a very talented comedian. It didn't hurt that he's also really easy on the eyes."

Walsh, who at age 19 became the youngest VJ on MuchMusic, got her first major acting role with a cameo on TV's Smallville. "I got to have a love scene with Tom Welling, who plays young Clark Kent. I was this evil head cheerleader who tried to take revenge on the football players and take Kent away from Lois Lane."

Hazlett, who adapted These Girls from a stage play, says he was "incredibly lucky to get the three actresses I did. It was like they were the characters.

"It certainly made my job much easier."

17th Feb 2006 *premiere dates*

These Girls need more room

Because of heavy demand for the film, These Girls will open March 24 in English Canada, instead of March 10. The good news is that These Girls will be shown on a larger number of screens than originally planned.

Because we know it's hard to wait, we suggest that you enter the contest to win tickets to one of the premieres.

And if you're going to be in Quebec during break week, you'll be happy to know that the movie will be showing in both the original English and in French starting March 3!

Here's the list of premieres:

Toronto

Wednesday, March 8 @ 7 pm - Paramount #10

Check the Toronto Star for details

Vancouver

Wednesday, March 8 @ 7 pm - Tinseltown #8

Check the Georgia Straight for details

Edmonton

Thursday, March 9 @ 7pm - Silvercity West Edmonton Mall #8

Check See Magazine for details

Calgary

Wednesday, March 8 @ 7 pm - Empire Studio 10 Macleod Trail Cinemas #6

Check the FFWD for details

Montreal (French version)

Thursday, March 2 @ 7:30 pm - Cinema Quartier Latin

Check Le Journal de Montréal or Musique Plus for details

Quebec City (French version)

Thursday, March 2 @ 7 pm - Cinéplex Odeon Ste-Foy

Check Le Journal de Québec or Musique Plus for details

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Trois pour un en salle au Québec le 3 mars!

Le film sera à l'affiche en version originale anglaise et en version française dès le 3 mars, consultez vos journaux locaux pour plus de détails.

Les premières au Québec viennent d'être annoncées :

Montréal

Jeudi, 2 mars à 19h30 - Cinéma Quartier Latin

Consultez Le Journal de Montréal ou Musique Plus pour plus de détails

Québec

Jeudi, 2 mars à 19h - Cinéplex Odeon Ste-Foy

Consultez Le Journal de Québec ou Musique Plus pour plus de détails

Et pour ceux et celles qui voyageront pour la relâche, les premières dans le reste du Canada auront lieu :

Toronto

Mercredi, 8 mars à 19h - Paramount #10

Consultez le Toronto Star pour plus de détails

Vancouver

Mercredi, 8 mars à 19h - Tinseltown #8

Consultez le Georgia Straight pour plus de détails

Edmonton

Jeudi, 9 mars à 19h - Silvercity West Edmonton Mall #8

Consultez le See Magazine pour plus de détails

Calgary

Mercredi, 8 mars à 19h - Empire Studio 10 Macleod Trail Cinemas #6

Consultez le FFWD pour plus de détails

DVD release 23rd May 2006 http://www.ardustry.com/

http://www.pjo.ca/thesegirls/

Based on the humorously edgy play by Vivienne Laxdal, These Girls is the story of three teenage girls who, in turn, seduce and then attempt to share Keith, an older married man. It is a tale of innocence, jealousy and friendship told as a provocative coming-of-age story.

When Carolyn and Lisa discover that their best friend Glory is sleeping with Keith Clark, they both, in their own ways, go about seducing him as well. When each discovers that the other is involved with Keith, their friendship is put to the test. However, rather than squabble over him and run the risk of all losing out, they decide to make a pact and share him. At first, Keith puts up resistance to the plan, but soon finds out that he has very little say in the matter. He takes it like a man and caves in.

Their scheme works well for a time, but eventually all good things must come to an end. On a fateful night, a desperate and sexually exhausted Keith sets in motion his escape plan and everything comes crashing down.

Directed by
John Hazlett

Writing credits
John Hazlet http://thesegirlsblog.blogspot.com/

Credited cast:
David Boreanaz .... Keith Clark
Caroline Dhavernas .... Keira St-George
Holly Lewis .... Lisa MacDougall
Amanda Walsh .... Glory Lorrain

We are pleased to announce that Ardustry Home Entertainment has bought US rights to These Girls. The film will be launched on DVD in May.

Canadian Theatrical release is slated for March 10th, 2006. It is being released by Seville Pictures.




2nd March 2006

Some girls get it good
Dave Jaffer

Angel befuddled in side-splitting teen comedy These Girls

Last week, if someone tried to convince me that David Boreanaz (TV's Angel) was a good actor, I would have spit on them, called them a liar and probably got into a full-on donnybrook (or not, but still...). Today, however, I am a changed man coming to terms with my erroneous preconceived notions. They say it takes a good actor to do comedy, and if that's true, Angel's got some chops, yo.

These Girls, from John Hazlett, is more than just a teen comedy, a sex comedy, a teen sex comedy, or any other permutations of those terms. Boasting a fine cast, highlighted by the always-impressive Montreal-born Caroline Dhavernas (from TV's Wonderfalls), These Girls is funny at times and quite serious at others, all the while effectively encapsulating the carefree, me-first days of youth. In it the titular girls, played by the captivating and über-sardonic Dhavernas, former MuchMusic VJ Amanda Walsh and newcomer Holly Lewis, have a conundrum. See, all of them are fucking the neighbourhood stud (Boreanaz) even though they're jailbait and he's 32 and married with a kid. Like all good friends, they eventually decide to share and share alike, blackmailing him into, ahem, servicing them. Complications ensue, of course, when Boreanaz, tired of the continual strain of being a glorified gas pump, plans his escape.

This is a funny, funny film. The unlikely mélange of Dhavernas's now-trademark sarcastic wit and Lewis's ultra-keen Bible-and-baseball nerd (akin to Alyson Hannigan's American
Pie band geek) plays well against Boreanaz's befuddled, in-over-his-head hunk, whose facial expressions alone are worth the price of admission. Walsh, for her part, is ravishing throughout, despite the unevenness of her performance due to the character's stock quality. That said, the screenplay (adapted from Vivienne Laxdal's stage play) shows flashes of zip here and there, demonstrating a sharp understanding of the inner workings of the minds of young girls.

If good first impressions are as important as they say, then maybe I had my good favour button pushed during the opening credit sequence of These Girls. From Metric's Combat Baby, one of my favourite songs, to the quirky pastels and the high-school notebook scrawl announcing the players and the production team, I was hooked. But to only appreciate the film by way of its ephemeral details would be shortsighted. Sort of like the worldview of a trio of teenaged girls - old enough to know better yet still enamoured of the trappings of youthful naiveté.

31th January 2006

2 - 14th February San Francisco Indiefest http://sfindie.com/

March 30 - April 12, 2006.Philadelphia Film Festival http://www.phillyfests.com/

April 5-9, 2006 The 9th Annual Sonoma Valley Film Festival http://secure.cinemaepicuria.org/index.htm

10 October 2005

http://www.screendaily.com/

Len Klady, Toronto

These Girls
Dir: John Hazlett. Can. 2005. 92mins

The thrust of These Girls sounds like a dirty joke and while the situation explored is provocative, it’s a real testament to its film-makers and cast that the comedy transcends the snickering and emerges as a bright, lively and intelligent entertainment. With its brash mixture of humor and frankness the film provides a humanistic context to teenage sex much in the way that Louis Malle created an almost palatable scenario for incest in Murmur Of The Heart.

It nonetheless faces an uphill commercial battle in overcoming skittishness toward the subject matter, extremely modest production values and a relatively unknown cast. Festival exposure is likely its best theatrical conduit for specialised engagements in sophisticated markets in Europe and Asia, where its prospects for modest success are better than average.

Told from the vantage point of Keira (Caroline Dhavernas), the story unfolds as a memory of a fateful last summer among friends at a slumbering beach community. Her pals, the beauty-obsessed Glory (Amanda Walsh) and the tomboyish Lisa (Holly Lewis) are at that critical point in life where the future looms and the prospects appear remote or pre-ordained.

Regardless, the trio has too much time to ponder what appear to be limited options and are additionally distracted by raging hormones and the relative absence of substantive mates. In fact, their closest male bond is asexual and learning impaired.

The fateful turning point in the young women’s lives occurs when Keira learns that local entrepreneur Keith Clark (David Boreanaz) has a covert marijuana patch and enlists Lisa to make a raid on the infestation. In the process of accomplishing the prank they discover that Glory’s babysitting duty for the Clarks has a side benefit. She’s carrying on an affair with Keith.

Employing a sly combination of guile and blackmail, Keira confronts the New Age businessman with a proposition. He will see to their sexual needs and they will keep their silence.

Objectively it’s an unholy pact. However, director and co-writer John Hazlett deftly avoids condemning or condoning the situation. Boreanaz’s imprisonment is rather poignant as he sees himself as essentially a good father and husband with a fragile libido. The teenagers do not have dark, ulterior motives; and at times seem to address the situation as a class science project.

The flesh is unquestionable weak but the personalities are disarmingly winning and forthright and, despite a degree of convenience in the plotting, the yarn evolves in surprising and satisfying fashion rather than in the tawdry and leering fashion of American Pie and its ilk.

Monday, October 3, 2005
By JEN GERSON
Boreanaz keeps his bad-boy edge thanks to Jen from www.globeandmail.ca
The star of Angel plays a married man dallying with three babysitters in a new Canadian film, JEN GERSON writes

After breaking through the bondage of Buffy and other cult-classic space-channel sitcoms, David Boreanaz is ready to take on the world.At least, the world of feature film.

"I'm going in the right direction, I'm aiming for global domination now," he said. "It's an amazing experience of transition that I'm going through."

But long-time fans who remember him as the lead of the gothic sitcom Angel and romantic lead opposite Sarah Michelle Gellar in Buffy the Vampire Slayer, will delight in knowing that the actor has lost none of his bad-boy brooding intensity in his most recent movie, the Canadian film These Girls.

Based on the play by Vivienne Laxdal, These Girls follows the misadventures of three girls in a small New Brunswick town as they blackmail local knife-toting tough guy Keith Clark into having sex with them.

Boreanaz plays Clark, a husband and new father who sets himself up for a physical and emotional beating by having a dalliance with the girls, who are -- in true to sex-farce-form -- his babysitters.

"Where we were shooting brought out the best in this character," Boreanaz said while soaking in the sun recently on the roof of the InterContinental Hotel in Toronto.

The shoot was in a small rural town, and Boreanaz said he felt depressed being away from his wife and child at the time.

"When you're away from the goodness in your life, it puts you in a place where you're lonely."

He channelled that emotion into giving Clark a sense of vulnerability. "Making him likeable after all he did is difficult."

Raised Catholic and versed in Buddhism, Boreanaz is an eclectic mix of spiritual philosophies. He wears a rosary blessed by the Pope around his neck and sports Chinese tattoos that translate into "soul" and "fate" on his wrists. He said he met his wife, Jaime Bergman, by noticing that she had the same tattoos in the same place.

Sleeping with three teenaged babysitters, even sexually voracious and manipulative teenaged babysitters, follows in Boreanaz's typical bad-boy characters. But in real life, the girls of These Girls said that he was every bit the gentleman.

He even took them out for dinner and talked about how much he loved his wife before shooting the sex scenes.

Holly Lewis, who plays Lisa MacDougall, a Seventh Day Adventist who wants to lose her virginity before being shipped off to a religious college, portrays one of the most awkward first-time sex experiences on film.

She said the comedy of the film eased any discomfort. "That made it so much easier to do, because the sex was not sensual," Lewis said.

Amanda Walsh, who plays Glory Lorraine, a character so naive as to inspire anger, said the comedy-of-errors style of the film would allow them to poke at traditional female stereotypes and sexual norms without drawing too much ire. "The plot is controversial, but the plot was executed in a lighter way that cuts through that controversy," she said.

Walsh's character falls in love with Clark and deludes herself into believing that the two would have a future together.

"He's an older man, and it's hard to believe that what's going on in your head isn't going on in his as well," she said.

"It's messing with grown-up territory in a childish and naive way."

Caroline Dhavernas's Keira St-George narrates the film, unapologetically reflecting on the characters' behaviour.

Meanwhile, Boreanaz hasn't given up the small screen completely. He's working on the drama series Bones for Fox, although he adds that the workload can be overwhelming.

"An hour-long drama to deal with is a death sentence in a way," he said. But he's also starred in two films, Mr. Fix-it and The Hard Easy, which are currently in post-production.

So why doesn't he want to talk about Buffy? "I don't like reunions. . . . I don't like to go back to the things that I've already done," he said. "It's like after a meal is over, you don't go picking up used napkins."

Thanks to Fran for the head up .. and thanks to Jen from www.globeandmail.ca/filmfest

Jen Gerson is a journalist .. hired by The Globe to cover Tiff and was able to have a nice 'chat' with The Man

"Buff" Boreanaz gives me his granola bar

As mentioned, I just got out of an interview with David Boreanaz, Caroline Dhavernas, Amanda Walsh and Holly Lewis from the Canadian film These Girls.

(Dhavernas and Walsh told me that neither they, nor Boreanaz got access to the VIP room at last night's party--they only had the red wristband and were curious about who was there. Mostly industry people, I explained. I met a producer who told me that I had a good spirit and made me promise not to lose faith in myself.)

Anyway, Boreanaz's publicist told me not to mention Buffy in the interview. So, of course, I did and received a polite response about not wanting to look back.

Boreanaz is as handsome in person as ever he was during my formative high school years when I watched him make out with Sarah Michelle Gellar in graveyards. *Epiphany about my current taste in men.*

In These Girls he plays a new father who gets trapped into sleeping with his three teen aged babysitters.

In real life, he also drinks six litres of water a day, wears a rosary blessed by the Pope and has the tattoos "soul" and "faith" written on Chinese on his wrists.

I told him about my blog and explained that the picture I needed of him must be goofy and pixellated. He was happy to oblige, but his publicists soon came swarming in to examine the image.

David strikes for pose for Jen

"It's cool," he said.

I also asked his advice about scoring swag.

"What do you mean, swag?"

"I mean, free stuff."

"Here, this is free," he said, while throwing me a crunchy peanut butter granola bar that he was about to eat.

Granola swag

I thanked him, as I hadn't yet had breakfast and explained that I meant the good stuff that celebrities got, the gift bags and prizes and packages.

"I call it whoring yourself out," he said.

Yes that, I need to do that for the next two days.

Boreanaz said that it would be hypocritical of any celebrity to say that they don't get swag.

"These sunglasses were for free," he said, pulling them off and examining them. "It's amazing what they give. They give all this stuff for free but they can't help their own people out."

Walsh and Dhavernas fight over who should appear in Jen's picture

Dhavernas and Walsh received gift bags from Chanel with lip gloss and sundry. They hadn't yet checked in the most recent bags they had received, but said they saw chocolate and beauty products.

Posted Saturday, Sept. 10, 1:23 p.m


Notes by me *Setje* when asked Jen what she thought about David and These Girls

My impression of David is that he was a totally sweet, very down to earth kind of guy. Into the metaphysical stuff, but what star isn't?
This was my first meeting with him.

I was quite happy with These Girls. Happy to see a film that was so unabashedly Canadian. It was entertaining. David's sexy as ever. I know the reviewers at the Globe were fairly blase about it though.

http://jam.canoe.ca/

22nd September 2005

Film offers insights into teen girls
By DENIS ARMSTRONG - Ottawa Sun

Perhaps all town signs should carry warnings that read: "Danger, small-town teenage girls may be dangerous to your health."

That is, if Vivienne Laxdal's black comedy These Girls, which made its commercial debut at the Toronto International Film Festival last week, hits home.

"Growing up in a small town can make you vicious and resentful," said Laxdal during a recent post-premiere interview. "In the mid-1990s, I read a story about the new sexual confidence and aggressiveness of teenaged girls. I think that things have gone too far. Girls are too sexually aggressive these days for their own good."

Set in the fictional resort town of Seasides, N.B., These Girls follows three 17-year-old high school students -- Keira, played by Caroline Dhavernas (Wonderfalls), Holly Lewis (The Newsroom) as the Seventh Day Adventist-obsessed Lisa and former MuchMusic VJ Amanda Walsh as the hot-to-trot Glory -- who spend their final summer bedding David Clark, a dope-growing, motorcycle-riding married man twice their age, played by David Boreanaz (Angel, Bones).

What begins as a summertime affair for Glory quickly escalates into trouble when her two friends decide to get in on the action.

"These girls get into mischief because they're bright and there's nothing else to do," Laxdal said. "As teens, we don't consider the consequences of our actions. We're too busy living for the moment."

Laxdal should know. The 42-year-old mother of two boys -- aged 17 and 20 -- grew up in Kars, population 1,539. So she knows the toll small-town life can have on teens, given the new sexual politics, where grrlpower and the pill make it possible for teenaged girls to make the first move.

"I try to encourage my sons to make choices beyond the sexual, to look for partners who share their intellect and interests," Laxdal said. "But frankly, I don't know how many teenagers can overlook the sexual for the intellectual. I still want them to have fun. Safe fun."

Laxdal, who lives in Wakefield above the Black Sheep Inn, has written nine plays. Most of them have been produced around the capital, including Cyber:/womb, Goose Spit and Star Struck, but These Girls marks her first major break as a commercial scriptwriter.

"The money they paid me for These Girls I spent going to the Toronto film festival," she said laughing. "But it was worth every penny."

These Girls will be screened at the Atlantic Film Fest in Halifax next week, Vancouver's Film Festival Oct. 6 and 8 and will be released nationally in February.

TIFF: Whedonist actors in Canadian film
by Drifter @ 2005-09-11 - 07:46:27 pm

One film making its world debut at TIFF is These Girls. It's a Canadian film shot in somewhat disadvantaged New Brunswick. Which immediately earns it my sympathy vote. It's a film, the producers said on stage Saturday evening, that took years to work out and hard, hard toil. Sounds like a Canadian film to me.

What's on the screen is as interesting because of who's starring in it as it is the quality of the production and attention to entertainment. Mr. Handsome Brooding Guy with the Dramatic Eyebrows, David Boreanaz, who played Angel in the series named Angel (co-created by Joss Whedon), Montreal actress Caroline Dhavernas (of prematurely cancelled Wonderfalls, a wonderfully anarchic and droll series involving talking animal novelties on a mission to "ruin" Dhavernas's life ) and former Much Music VJ Amanda Walsh.

Strangely enough, it all works well enough, under the guidance of director John Hazlett. Keith Clark (ex Angel) finds himself in demand for sexual services while his nurse wife provides (approved) services at the local hospital. Glory (Walsh) does him a few times before Keira (Dhavernas) and then Lisa (Holly Lewis). Trouble ensues (of course, teenage trouble because they're teenage girls). Each manipulates the other but not too harshly because they're not typical Hollywood teenagers who "shop to forget" or buy cheap perfume and hang out with the "bad guy in frot of the high school" before an understanding mother turns one, who turns another back from the abyss.

The pleasurable thing is that the girls don't get all stupified and stupid. Glory thinks the sex machine really loves her (he doesn't), Keith knows it's all about sex, Keira does it for n particular reason other than liking to coach friends into trouble and Lisa thinks she can have all the sex and cigarettes she wants without guilt because she's not committed to a religious school yet.

The poorest role is Keira's father who limps around on a stick and invisible dialogue.

Fun is had by all and the actresses acquit themselves very well partly because their roles are on the page. They do bring their own creativity to the roles, larded with a little improv, apparently.

The film was a nice antidote to a day of films about the assassination of the Korean president in 1979 and the destruction by the Taliban of the giant carved buddhas in Bamiyan, Afghanistan.

All the cast except Holly Lewis was onstage afterword, answering loads of questions, mostly about the film. I didn't hear any about Angel but I missed some of the session. Boreanaz was a gracious and playful guest, entertaining the crowds with stories about spending all day in bed set with the three girls, er actresses.

These Girls is showing again Monday, Sept. 12. Giant Buddhas goes Monday at 7:30 pm, Saturday, Sept. 17 at 8:45 pm. The President's Last Bang has one more showing (out of four) left on Sept. 17 at 4:45 pm

http://filmguide.atlanticfilm.com/

Sun, Sep 18 7:10 pm Park Lane 4

http://www.playbackmag.com/

It's looking to be a good year for filmmakers from B.C. and Quebec at the Toronto International Film Festival.

while Girls stars David Boreanaz (Angel) as a young hunk trying to escape his three over-sexed girlfriends.

http://www.e.bell.ca/filmfest/

Toronto International Film Festival 2005

World Premiere @ Canada First

http://www.cineac.ca ...... go to page 7

http://www.reelwest.com ~ movie details .. go to page 5

release date : March 2006 ~ Québec