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Horse Girl

2020 · 103 min

A disorienting, quietly unsettling slide into a lonely woman's subjective reality, blurring dream and waking life until you can't tell which is which.

Directed by
Jeff Baena
Genres
Drama
Starring
Alison Brie, Debby Ryan, John Reynolds
Overview
A socially awkward woman with a fondness for arts and crafts, horses, and supernatural crime shows finds her increasingly lucid dreams trickling into her waking life.

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Stream in the UK
  • Netflix
More options Data from JustWatch
Directed by
Jeff Baena
Genres
Drama
Starring
Alison Brie, Debby Ryan, John Reynolds
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How it feels

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Tone
  • eeriestrength 3 of 3
  • melancholicstrength 2 of 3
  • darkstrength 2 of 3
  • whimsicalstrength 1 of 3
Pacing
slow-burn, 1 of 4, from slow-burn to relentless
Attention
demanding, 4 of 4, from background-friendly to demanding
Themes
  • madness
  • isolation
  • grief
  • identity
  • trauma
Places
  • big city
  • suburbs
  • hospital
Era
contemporary
Audience
adult
Form
  • unreliable narrator
  • twist ending
Content intensity
  • Gore none
  • Language mild
  • Violence mild
  • Sex mild
All scales, 0 to 10
Scales, 0 to 10
ScaleValue0 to 10
Action2
Horror4
Humour3
Realism6
Romance2
Tension6
Darkness7
Complexity8
Emotional weight8

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Details

Genres
drama
Directed by
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Written by
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Starring
Alison Brie, Debby Ryan, John Reynolds, Molly Shannon, John Ortiz, Meredith Hagner, Jake Picking, David Paymer
Music
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Cinematography
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Runtime
103 min
Country
United States of America
Languages
English

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