The Girl Next Door (2004)

This is one of the best movie a teenager should watch. This is just not about sex. It's about how much your career, friends and falling in love means to a teenager and what all the things you can do for them. This movie is more about being strong.

Please do not confuse this movie for the life of porn star Stacy Valentine feature from the same year. This is mainstream comedy movie that stars Emilie Hirsh and Elisha Cuthbert. The film is about a high school student who discovers that a porn star has moved in next door to him. They become friends which leads to a serious relationship. However it is only a matter of time until her porn film producer friend bumps in to her again and attempts to come between the two. The film follows the same route as many previous love stories. Unfortunately the film doesn't shed much light on the porn industry and is neither a biography of any sort. There are many comic moments that display the humour side of the business. Towards the the second half the film ventures in to 'risky Business 1983' terrority. As a matter of fact the film almost seems like a duplicate of the 80s movie. The only difference seems that Rebecca De Mornay was a prostitute.Good light hearted fun and Timothy Olyphant is the heart of the movie. He manages to be funny in a serious way. And Cuthbert is attractive.

There was a lot of hype for this movie, and frankly the hype setup viewers for this movie's situational irony. The characters were attractive ranging from the usual suburban high school cliques to adult film producers and starlets. Eroticism and high school graduation, as a pair, always attracted attention, and this movie capitalized on this taboo reality. Having these polarized yet ancillary characters made most of this movie's humor based on the novelty of the friendships. This movie definitely illustrated the quiet kinkiness lurking in high school academics while addressing issues of moral sexual behavior. American Pie and She's All That each made boundaries within which this movie operated.

Matthew Kidman (Emile Hirsch) is a straight A student council president who looks back at his high school life without really living to the fullest. He gets into Georgetown and is trying to get a scholarship. He and his friends Eli (Chris Marquette) and Klitz (Paul Dano) are outsiders. Then Danielle (Elisha Cuthbert) moves in next door and Matthew falls for her hard. Porn obsessed Eli recognizes Danielle from a video. They break up and then he finds her with her old boyfriend porn producer Kelly (Timothy Olyphant).It has some funny moments mostly from Chris Marquette. It's a sharp take on the teen sex romp. Emile Hirsch is way too whiny. It has a bit of Risky Business but it's also uncomfortable adult. It takes a wrong turn going to the porn convention. It overloads on the adult entertainment side and stops being a fun teen sex romp. It would be helpful to develop the other high school characters and less with the adult entertainers.