The Incredibly True Adventure of Two Girls in Love (1995) on Netflix
Randy Dean is a tomboyish senior with poor grades who works the register at a gas station. Wealthy, popular classmate Evie Roy stops there one day, and the two begin passing notes.
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Plot summary
Randy Dean is a seventeen-year-old in her final year of high school, where her grades are poor and other students shun her tomboyish personality and appearance. Her mother devoted herself to the anti-abortion movement and left her, so Randy lives with her lesbian aunt Rebecca, Rebecca's girlfriend Vicky and Rebecca's ex-girlfriend Lena. Randy works as a cashier at a gas station and has one friend, Frank. Evie Roy, a wealthy and popular classmate, stops at the station in a Range Rover, unsure whether her tires need air, and the two begin passing notes in school.
Cast
- Nelson Edwin Rodríguezas Frank (as Nelson Rodríguez)
- Katlin Tyleras Girl #1
- Anna Padgettas Girl #2
Did you know?!Facts and trivia about The Incredibly True Adventure of Two Girls in Love (1995)
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- Roger Ebert lambasted the MPAA for giving the film an R rating over a love scene between two young women, arguing that a similar scene between a boy and a girl would not have qualified for the word "strong" and that the MPAA was shocked by the homosexuality.
- Maggenti wrote a new script that she finished in eight days, and surprised herself: the result was a comedic farce, a story not about gay love or coming out but about first love between teenagers.
- Writer-director Maria Maggenti started the script from an image of a tomboy with love notes in her back pocket, and only later realized the character was based on her own first girlfriend.
- The film won a GLAAD Media Award for Outstanding Film in 1996, and its success is credited with launching the film careers of its lead actresses Laurel Holloman, Nicole Ari Parker, and Dale Dickey.
- The film was shot in just 21 days during the summer of 1994, with the high school scenes filmed at Horace Mann School in the Riverdale section of the Bronx.
- After many years of the DVD being out of print, the film was digitally restored in 2022 with the assistance of the Sundance Institute and Strand Releasing, and on June 18, 2024 it was released on Netflix in the US for Pride Month.
