5 Girls

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• Posted 03/05/11 by Amanda
  If i was Aiesha I would never play sports. Her sad father is like a slave driver when it comes to basketball. And the coach was no better. It was sad to see how much emphasis these old men put on the sport. I mean don't the girls do it for fun? Why don't these old guys get out there any play if they don't like the way the girls are doing it? Common.. its so sad how these parents push their kids into sports and ruin their self esteem in the process.
• Posted 08/24/10 by Christina Carter
  This is an AMAZING documentary. Definitely in my top 2, maybe even top 3 of docs. I first watched it as a teenage girl, and was to surprised to find that though each of the girls hailed from different backgrounds and ethnicities, we went through the same problems that all adolescent females face in those challenging years. I will be ordering it so I can watch it for the 50th time. A+
• Posted 05/24/09 by Samantha
  I found this film very interesting. I'm not really the type of person who watches these types of things but i just happened upon it and decided to watch it. I found it really easy for me to relate to Tobi (i think that was her name, the one who did cross country && piano). And there were certain aspects of the other girls i could relate to as well. It was very intriguing and rather realistic as well.
• Posted 04/28/09 by k sanjeewa
  i think its very beautiful and so very best of the world.
• Posted 01/23/09 by roundbox
  Gets, remarkably, to the heart of the adolescent female experience, in all its want--aching, excited, or quiet, or am intricate combination of all. The young women are from different parts of Chicago geographically and socially, from different races and classes and histories, but all so knowing in their own ways. This filmmaker clearly gained good trust from the subjects, who are natural and honest throughout the film. I intended to watch only a few minutes of this to catch a sense of what it was about, but watched it through to the end. Stay with it past the opening few minutes and the film editing/art design that belie the expertise of the film on the whole; the stories are what matter here, and those stories are engaging and true to life and at times full of the small daily heartbreaks of this age.