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Posted: 5/10/2012
Feature trailer for Girlfriend, that is near identical to the first trailer.
Writer / Director Justin Lerner s first feature film skillfully sets a traditional theme a relationship between two people that seem an unlikely match within unconventional circumstances. The result is Girlfriend, a gentle yet complex exploration of the nature of love and human compassion. Evan (Evan Sneider) is a young man with Down Syndrome who lives with his mother Celeste (Amanda Plummer) in a poor, working-class town hard hit by the recent recession. When Evan unexpectedly comes into a large amount of money, he decides to use it to pursue Candy (Shannon Woodward, TV's Raising Hope), a local girl that he s been in love with since high school. Candy is now a single parent with huge debts, who cannot shake the attentions of her volatile ex-boyfriend, Russ (Jackson Rathbone). Knowing Evan s intentions are to have a relationship with her but unsure if she can ever fully return his love, Candy nevertheless accepts Evan s offer of financial help. When Russ catches on to Candy and Evan s relationship, all three of them enter an intricate web of violent emotions, expectations and secrets.