Carrie Pilby (2016) on Netflix
Carrie Pilby, a 19-year-old prodigy, lives alone in Manhattan. For the past year she has mostly stayed inside. Her therapist, Dr. Petrov, gives her a list: a friend, a pet, a date.
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- Netflix3.3/5
- IMDb6.7/1014,383 votes
- Rotten Tomatoes63%
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Plot summary
At 19, Carrie Pilby is the smartest person in any room, but she finds dating and friendship hard. She has lived in New York City from the age of 12, the year her mother died, and these days she is on her own in Manhattan. She skipped three grades and finished Harvard at 18, and a year later she proofreads at a law firm at her father's insistence. Dr. Petrov, her therapist and a longtime friend of her widowed father, gives her a list: make a friend, get a pet, go on a date.
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Did you know?!Facts and trivia about Carrie Pilby (2016)
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- Hailee Steinfeld was previously attached to play Carrie Pilby, the film written by Kara Holden and Dean Craig, but dropped out over scheduling conflicts and was replaced by Bel Powley.
- Eddie Izzard was cast as Dr. Petrov but the part later went to Nathan Lane, and Tom Wilkinson was cast as Carrie's father but was replaced by Gabriel Byrne.
