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Tall Girl is a 2019 American teen romantic comedy film directed by Nzingha Stewart, from a screenplay by Sam Wolfson. The film stars Ava Michelle, Griffin Gluck, Sabrina Carpenter, Paris Berelc, Luke Eisner, Clara Wilsey, Anjelika Washington, Rico Paris, Angela Kinsey, and Steve Zahn.

Jodi Kreyman is a 16-year-old who has been tall for her age since she was three, which has made her insecure her whole life. Students regularly joke about her height. In contrast, Jodi's older sister Harper is of short height and has won multiple beauty pageants. Jack Dunkleman, a life-long friend, frequently asks her out, but she is reluctant, partly because he is much shorter than she is.

Stig Mohlin, a Swedish foreign exchange student, joins Jodi's class, and she is immediately interested in him, along with most girls in the school. However, her bully Kimmy Stitcher, starts showing him around. Dunkleman is distressed to learn that Stig will be staying at his house as the host family. Jodi asks Harper for help getting Stig to notice her, so she and their mother give her a complete makeover.

Kimmy and another bully, Schnipper, prank call Jodi, pretending to be Stig and asking her to homecoming. To her best friend Fareeda's frustration, Jodi hides in the bathroom to avoid Kimmy. Stumbling across Stig playing the piano, he encourages her to join him, and they sing the duet "I've Never Been in Love Before" from the musical Guys and Dolls.

Jodi finds her father has organized a tall people club meeting in their house, which she finds upsetting. Stig calls, and at first, thinking it is another prank call, she tells him off, but he invites her to watch a musical. She turns up to Dunkleman's house, and he becomes jealous when he realizes she is there to see Stig. He continually interrupts their evening, but as Stig escorts Jodi home, they kiss. Later, feeling guilty, Stig asks Dunkleman for advice, and he tells him to focus on being with Kimmy. Jodi gets angry at Dunkleman when she learns this.

Dunkleman rejects Liz when she asks him to the homecoming dance. He gives Jodi platform heels to apologize for being a bad friend. Jodi is sent a video from after she left the party. Stig pretended that Jodi had an unrequited love for him and says he stood her up. Schnipper joined the conversation and a fistfight ensued, leaving Dunkleman with a black eye.

At the homecoming dance, Kimmy and Stig are crowned Homecoming Queen and King, but he breaks up with her. Jodi arrives in the high heels Dunkleman gave her and makes a speech expressing newfound confidence in herself. Stig asks Jodi out, but she rejects him. She talks to Dunkleman: he finally reveals why he always carries a milk crate: he stands on it and leans in to kiss her.

In November 2018, it was announced that Netflix would collaborate with McG of Wonderland Sound and Vision for a fourth time on the film Tall Girl, with Nzingha Stewart set as the director.[2] In January 2019, Ava Michelle, Griffin Gluck, Luke Eisner, Sabrina Carpenter, Paris Berelc, Steve Zahn, Angela Kinsey, Anjelika Washington, Clara Wilsey, and Rico Paris joined the cast of the film.[3]

On review aggregator website Rotten Tomatoes, the film holds an approval rating of 38% based on 13 reviews, and an average rating of 5.3/10. The site's critics consensus reads, "While charming at times, Tall Girl is mostly an uninspired teen comedy that fails to bring anything new to the genre."[7]

On December 1, 2020, DiscussingFilm reported that Tall Girl 2 was in the works at Netflix, with Michelle returning as Jodi alongside the majority of the supporting cast.[8] Filming began in April 2021, with Sam Wolfson returning as the screenplay writer.[9] Tall Girl 2 was eventually released on February 11, 2022.[10]

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The movie outlines all of the ways that Jodi is constantly being reminded of how much she stands out and how different she feels from other girls her age. Her older sister Harper (played by Sabrina Carpenter) is a blonde bombshell pageant competitor, which only makes Jodi feel more insecure. Constantly at school, her conventionally attractive classmates, who are also of course of average height, are constantly bullying her. One day, a male foreign exchange student, Stig (Luke Eisner), who is taller than Jodi shows up at school. It immediately becomes her mission to try and catch his attention. She goes to her older sister, who helps give Jodi a more feminine makeover.

When the trailer for Netflix's Tall Girldropped, I received no less than five texts from friends saying: "Hey! It's you!" And they were not wrong. I stand at 6-foot-2 (and a half!), having reached 6-feet by the time I was 13 years old. A lot of my childhood experiences mirror those of title character Jodi, the 6-foot-1 "tall girl" played by Dance Moms alum Ava Michelle. I can easily recall the bullying (although Tall Girl's repeated "How's the weather up there?" is mild compared to actual insults of vicious teens), the lack of clothing options, being shorter than maybe three boys in my grade. These are all real inconveniences adolescent tall girls face. But, predictably, as soon as the trailer dropped, people took to Twitter to criticize the film's message, labeling it as problematic for its supposed portrayal of a tall, white girl being the victim.

My body has been the subject of unwarranted comments from strangers for as long as I can remember. This reached a pinnacle when I worked in retail and received comments about my body at least once a day. Why do people think other people's bodies are grounds for reflecting personal insecurities and prejudices? I have my own emotions and insecurities to sort out, I do not need to take on the burden of veiled backhanded "compliments" while in the middle of eating dinner or grocery shopping.

For years now, I have compiled a list of things I have been asked and told hundreds of times, as well as some out-of-pocket one-off comments. These usually get answered with a fake laugh and a number of scripted responses. Here they are, below.

Jodi is tall, taller than everyone else in the film, but 6-foot-1 is not freakishly tall like the movie says she is. She is going through a period where she feels uncomfortable about how tall she is, when in reality, she is not even that tall.

Michelle looks much taller than six feet in the film, as all of the other principal actors in the film are below average heights. Carpenter stands at just five feet tall, with Kinsey at five feet one, and Zahn at five feet seven inches. Nearly every shot in the film is angled to have Michelle resemble a giant amongst a sea of dwarves.

Growing up, it was always a competition among my friends and me to see who was the tallest, so the concept of height as a negative thing intrigued me. After watching this movie, I was left very disappointed.

For starters, director Nzingha Stewart went out and chose the most attractive tall woman she could find to play Jodi, the main character, and ended up with Ava Michelle. I know she was a popular character on Dance Moms back in the day, but it seems like maybe a slightly taller and less attractive woman would have made for a better storyline with more adversity.

Later, Jodi walks in on Stig practicing piano, and proceeds to play with him. Kimmy walks in and immediately assumes that Jodi is trying to steal her man, despite not letting Jodi explain herself. It turns out that Jodi was indeed trying to steal Stig, so Kimmy was correct in her accusations.

The film series (unfortunately) returned with a different director, although toting the same screenwriter and much of the same cast, starring Ava Michelle and Griffin Gluck as Jodi Kreyman and Jack Dunkleman, respectively.

Jodi, the protagonist, complains about the difficulty of being a tall, size-13-shoe-wearing teenager, despite living a life of wealth and privilege in every other aspect. As you'd imagine, the internet had a field day with that.

Toward the end of the movie, Jodi makes a speech where she gains confidence and accepts the romantic overtures of her long-time friend Jack Dunkleman, despite the pair's height difference. The plot wraps up pretty neatly.

The intense backlash the first film received was well deserved. So, when I saw Netflix released the second installment, I was intrigued as to what they'd done to address the controversy. As it would turn out, they did the bare minimum.

When Jodi auditions for a school play, the drama teacher reiterates the core issue with the first film: Being tall is hardly the most difficult thing human beings must contend with, and that Jodi is otherwise privileged.

This statement, while valid, seems like a cheap trick to get the controversy out of viewers' minds, and it seems odd for a random drama teacher to bring this up. I was struck by the utter laziness of this plot device, and more so by its contradiction with the first film, where Jodi famously says, "You think your life is hard? I'm a high school junior wearing size 13 Nikes."

In the unoriginal central premise of "Tall Girl 2," the golden couple loses its shine on a romantic holiday, no less. The relationship then falls casualty to a kindhearted and ridiculously understanding interloper.

Queue "To All the Boys: P.S. I Still Love You," the second installment of the streaming giant's other, far more notable teen rom-com series. While watching "Tall Girl 2," I made the connection in no time, shocked at the plot recycling, hoping that I was mistaken.

While the film maintains an odd, farcical tone, it attempts to address real issues, such as anxiety, bullying and body dysmorphia, among others. The writers fail to balance this, however, and the back and forth between comedy and depth leaves the viewer feeling confused.

As for our main couple? By the end of this movie, I had completely lost interest in them. For all that the first "Tall Girl" had wrong with it, the relationship between the main leads was not the issue.

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