The Girl (2012 independent film)

The Girl
Theatrical release poster
Directed by	David Riker
Produced by	Paul Mezey
Written by	David Riker
Starring	Abbie Cornish Will Patton
Music by	Leonardo Heiblum Jacobo Lieberman
Cinematography	Martín Boege
Edited by	Malcolm Jamieson Stephanie Ahn
Production company	Journeyman Pictures Axiom Films Goldcrest Pictures Bonita Films Lulu Producciones Sin Sentido Films
Distributed by	Film Collective Brainstorm Media Front Row Filmed Entertainment
Release date	April 20, 2012 (2012-04-20) (Tribeca Film Festival) December 14, 2012 (2012-12-14) (United States)
Running time	95 minutes
Country	United States, Mexico
Language	English, Spanish
Box office	$35,048

The Girl is an independent film written and directed by David Riker, and starring Abbie Cornish and Will Patton. It debuted at the 2012 Tribeca Film Festival. It opened in select theaters for a one-week awards-qualifying period on December 14, 2012, and will have a full theatrical release in March 2013.

Cornish plays a single mother who helps illegal immigrants to cross the border from Mexico into Texas. A young Mexican girl named Rosa comes into her care.

The Girl has received generally mixed reviews. Review aggregator Rotten Tomatoes reports that 53% of 17 critics gave the film a positive review, with an average rating of 5.2/10. Metacritic, which assigns a weighted average score from 1–100 to reviews from mainstream critics, gave the film a score of 53 based on 11 reviews indicating "mixed or average reviews."