Damsels In Distress
Movie · Comedy · Drama

Whit Stillman’s Damsels in Distress is a wonderfully off-beat comedy about a trio of beautiful girls set out to revolutionise life at a grungy American university. Led by the dynamic Violet (Greta Gerwig), principled Rose (Megalyn Echikunwoke) and sexy Heather (Carrie MacLemore), they welcome transfer student Lily (Analeigh Tipton) into their group which seeks to help severely depressed students through a programme of donuts and tap dancing. The girls become romantically entangled with a series of men, including smooth Charlie (Adam Brody), dreamboat Xavier (Hugo Becker) and the mad frat pack of Frank (Ryan Metcalf) and Thor (Billy Magnussen) - who threaten the girls’ friendship and sanity...

2012 · 1h 39m
  • 75%
  • 14+
Starring Greta Gerwig, Carrie MacLemore, Megalyn Echikunwoke
Director Whit Stillman

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Cast & Crew

  • Greta Gerwig
    Violet Wister
  • Carrie MacLemore
    Heather
  • Megalyn Echikunwoke
    Rose
  • Adam Brody
    Charlie Walker
  • Lio Tipton
    Lily
  • Hugo Becker
    Xavier
  • Billy Magnussen
    Thor
  • Caitlin FitzGerald
    Priss
  • Jermaine Crawford
    Jimbo
  • Aubrey Plaza
    Depressed Debbie
  • Zach Woods
    Rick DeWolfe

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Damsels In Distress

Comedy

Whit Stillman’s Damsels in Distress is a wonderfully off-beat comedy about a trio of beautiful girls set out to revolutionise life at a grungy American university. Led by the dynamic Violet (Greta Gerwig), principled Rose (Megalyn Echikunwoke) and sexy Heather (Carrie MacLemore), they welcome transfer student Lily (Analeigh Tipton) into their group which seeks to help severely depressed students through a programme of donuts and tap dancing. The girls become romantically entangled with a series of men, including smooth Charlie (Adam Brody), dreamboat Xavier (Hugo Becker) and the mad frat pack of Frank (Ryan Metcalf) and Thor (Billy Magnussen) - who threaten the girls’ friendship and sanity...

14+

COMMON SENSE

Wry college comedy may go over young teens' head.

75%

TOMATOMETER
Average 6.7
Reviews 141
Fresh 106
Rotten 35

Information

Studio
Damsels Productions, Inc.
Released
2012
Run Time
1 hr 39 min
Rated
PG-13 for mature thematic content including some sexual material.
Region of Origin
United States
© 2012 Damsels Productions, LLC. All Rights Reserved.

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Original Audio
English
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English (United States) (⁨Dolby 5.1⁩, AAC), French (France) (AAC), Spanish (Spain) (AAC)

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English (United States) (CC), Arabic , Chinese, Traditional , Czech , Danish (Denmark) , Dutch (Netherlands) , Finnish (Finland) , French (France) , German (Germany) , Greek , Hebrew , Korean (South Korea) , Norwegian (Norway) , Polish , Portuguese (Brazil) , Spanish (Latin America) , Spanish (Spain) , Swedish (Sweden) , Thai (Thailand) , Turkish

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Closed captions (CC) refer to subtitles in the available language with the addition of relevant non-dialogue information.
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