The Girl Next Door

The Girl Next Door is a 2004 teen film starring Elisha Cuthbert and Emile Hirsch, directed by Luke Greenfield, about an honors student's pining love for the girl next door, who, as he finds out later, is a former porn star.

The Girl Next Door
Theatrical release poster
Directed by	Luke Greenfield
Produced by	Charles Gordon Harry Gittes Marc Sternberg
Written by	Stuart Blumberg David T. Wagner Brent Goldberg
Starring	Emile Hirsch Elisha Cuthbert Timothy Olyphant James Remar Chris Marquette Paul Dano
Music by	Paul Haslinger
Cinematography	Jamie Anderson
Editing by	Mark Livolsi
Studio	Regency Enterprises New Regency
Distributed by	20th Century Fox
Release date(s)	North America: April 9, 2004
Running time	Theatrical cut 108 min. Unrated cut 110 min.
Country	United States
Language	English
Budget	$21,000,000
Gross revenue	$30,411,183

Plot

Ambitious Westport High School senior, Matthew Kidman dreams of a career in politics. He has been accepted to prestigious Georgetown University, but will only be able to afford it if he can win a large scholarship. With graduation approaching, he struggles to find anything truly memorable about his high school experience. However, his luck changes when he meets his beautiful next door neighbour Danielle. The outlandish Danielle and the steady Matthew each turn out to be the perfect complement for the other, and they are immediately smitten with one another. However, the relationship is challenged when Matthew discovers through his porn-enthusiast friend Eli that Danielle was recently an adult film actress under the stage name "Athena".

Following Eli's advice on how to deal with this incredible revelation, Matthew takes Danielle to a sleazy motel. Danielle guesses that Matthew has discovered her past and punishes him by performing a humiliating striptease and offering herself to him sexually. When Matthew becomes distressed and asks why she is degrading herself for him, Danielle calls him out on his base intentions and abruptly ends the relationship. Matthew goes to Danielle's house the following day and attempts to reconcile with her, but learns that she is returning to the porn industry, and is leaving for Las Vegas with her ex-boyfriend, porn producer Kelly.

Matthew, riddled with guilt and remorse, follows Danielle to Las Vegas to find her performing at an adult film convention, where Kelly menacingly warns Matthew not to interfere with his business. When Matthew convinces Danielle not to rejoin the industry, Kelly abducts Matthew from school and physically assaults him, saying that Danielle's failure to arrive on set has cost him $30,000. Kelly offers to let him erase his debt by breaking into rival producer Hugo Posh's home to steal an award statuette, but after Matthew has entered the house Kelly calls in a robbery report and leaves the premises. Matthew narrowly avoids the police and rushes to his scholarship award dinner. High on ecstasy that Kelly told him was aspirin, he improvises a deeply sentimental speech but loses out on the scholarship to a student who resembles nothing so much as the passionless, pre-Danielle version of Matthew.

Kelly then gets his money back by stealing $25,000 Matthew raised to bring Samnang, a brilliant Cambodian student, to study in the United States — not wanting to explain his connections to the adult film industry, Matthew had previously introduced Kelly to the bank staff as his student advisor. Although Matthew has done nothing wrong, he still fears that he will face expulsion or criminal charges for his unwitting role in the fraud, and he turns to Danielle for help. Danielle calls in a few friends from her days as a porn star, and they agree to make a video for Hugo Posh on prom night and on school grounds. After the successful shoot, and after Eli has been dropped off with the tape's master copy, Danielle and Matthew make love for the first time in their limousine.

The next morning Matthew is shocked to find Kelly, in possession of the tape he has stolen from Eli's home, with his parents and school principal at the dining room table. Kelly asks to speak privately with Matthew and says that unless he is given half of all profits, he will play the tape immediately. Matthew, following Danielle's earlier advice to just go with it, refuses because the money rightfully belongs to Samnang. Kelly repeats his threat, but Matthew stands up for himself and dares him, stating that he no longer cares about his now-ruined future. As the tape begins to play, it becomes clear that Matthew and his friends have made a progressive, comprehensive sex education tape rather than a pornographic film. With no more cards left to play, Kelly finally admits defeat.

Hugo Posh and Matthew make millions from the video. Hugo Posh keeps his word and pays for Samnang to come to the USA, while Matthew has enough money to attend Georgetown and take Danielle to DC with him. The final scene is Matthew driving into Georgetown University in a BMW Z4. Matthew's story ends with him getting the girl of his dreams and a chance at the future he has always wanted.

Cast

All the main characters at the prom night, including the film crew in the background. From left to right: Klitz, April, Danielle, Matthew, Ferrari and Eli.

• Emile Hirsch as Matthew Kidman.
• Elisha Cuthbert as Danielle.
• Timothy Olyphant as Kelly.
• James Remar as Hugo Posh.
• Chris Marquette as Eli Brooks.
• Paul Dano as Klitz.
• Timothy Bottoms as Ben Kidman.
• Donna Bullock as Marci Kidman.
• Jacob Young as Hunter.
• Amanda Swisten as April.
• Sung-Hi Lee as Ferrari.
• Ulysses Lee as Samnang Sok.
• Harris Laskaway as Mr. Salinger.
• Olivia Wilde as Kellie.
• Autumn Reeser as Jane.
• Briana Banks as Woman on magazine in beginning of film.
• Matt Wiese as Mule.
• Luke Greenfield as Porn director during film's end montage.

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50 First Dates
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Directed by	Peter Segal
Produced by	Jack Giarraputo Steve Golin Nancy Juvonen
Written by	George Wing
Starring	Adam Sandler Drew Barrymore Rob Schneider Sean Astin and Dan Aykroyd
Music by	Teddy Castellucci
Cinematography	Jack N. Green
Editing by	Jeff Gourson
Studio	Happy Madison Flower Films
Distributed by	Columbia Pictures
Release date(s)	February 13, 2004
Running time	99 min.
Country	United States
Language	English
Budget	$75 million
Gross revenue	$196,482,882

Plot

Henry Roth (Adam Sandler), a womanizing marine-life veterinarian living in Hawaii, meets Lucy Whitmore (Drew Barrymore), an art teacher, in a café one morning. They hit it off and agree to meet in the café the next morning. The following day, however, Lucy claims not to know Henry. The café owner pulls Henry aside and explains that Lucy suffers from anterograde amnesia (called 'Goldfield Syndrome' in the movie) as a result of a car accident she was in a year earlier. Her condition has left her with no memory of anything between the day of the accident and the present, because she is incapable of converting short-term memories into long-term memories. At the beginning of each day, she loses all memory of the past day. She innocently believes every day to be October 13, 2002. Her father, Marlin (Blake Clarke), and brother, Doug (Sean Astin), attempt to re-enact the activities of October 13, her father's birthday, every day, to prevent her from suffering from learning about the accident.

Realizing that he is beginning to fall in love with Lucy, Henry sheds his philandering ways and begins devising new ways to ‘meet’ her again every day, hoping that one day she will retain her memories – and feelings – for him. Henry and Lucy’s family eventually realize that they can’t lie to her about what has happened forever, and so instead begin to leave video tapes for her to watch each morning, explaining her situation and relationship with Henry. Over time, Lucy begins to reciprocate Henry’s feelings, even going so far as to accept his marriage proposal. One morning, however, she overhears Henry telling Marlin that he has canceled his plans to sail to the Arctic on a research expedition – something he had been planning and saving money for 10 years – in order to be with Lucy. Not wanting to be the person to hold him back, she ends the relationship and commits herself to a specialist unit in hospital, allowing herself to forget all about Henry. A heartbroken Henry, meanwhile, finally saves the money needed to begin his trip, and, after a farewell from Marlin and Doug, sets sail. Shortly after departing he realizes that Marlin had hinted that Lucy had indeed remembered Henry, and he rushes back to the hospital to see her. Upon seeing him again, Lucy explains that she still doesn’t know who Henry is, but that she has somehow remembered his face and she had dreams with him in them, as evidenced by the many paintings and pictures she has produced of him whilst in hospital. Knowing that this is proof of the love she has for him, and he for her, the couple reunite.

Several years later Lucy wakes up in a strange bed with a video tape on the night stand next to her, reading "Good Morning, Lucy". She watches it, and cries as she relives her accident while the tape explains everything that has happened, including scenes from Henry and Lucy's wedding. She then looks out the window and is shocked to find out that she's on a boat in the Arctic. She comes out onto the deck of the boat to be greeted by Henry as well as her father and her young daughter sailing on Henry's ship, his dream finally fulfilled.

Cast

• Adam Sandler as H enry Roth
• Drew Barrymore as Lucy Whitmore
• Rob Schneider as Ula
• Sean Astin as Doug Whitmore
• Lusia Strus as Alexa
• Dan Aykroyd as Dr. Keats
• Amy Hill as Sue
• Allen Covert as Ten Second Tom
• Blake Clark as Marlin Whitmore
• Missi Pyle as Noreen
• Maya Rudolph as Stacy
• Wayne Federman as Wheelchair Patient
• J.D. Donaruma as Pablo
• Joe Nakashima as Old Hawaiian Man at Hukilau's
• Esmond Chung as Sheriff
• Marguerite Cazin as Henry & Lucy's Daughter