George Washington
George and his friends grow up in a poor suburb where people must struggle for their life. One day, A tragedy occurs when one of George's friends becomes murderer and they make a decision to hide the body.
25 May 1980, USA
4 August 1982, Geelong, Australia
2 July 1954, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA
October1971, Madison, Wisconsin, USA
11 November 1986, Poughkeepsie, New York, USA
April 13, 2011
This morality tale represents the impressive feature debut by regional filmmaker David Gordon Green, a talent to watchJanuary 17, 2010
What makes Green's work such a thing of beauty is its relentless, yet altogether genuine, modesty.July 18, 2007
Stylized to the point of poetry, David Gordon Green's impressive debut fuses the lyricism of Terence Malick with Harmony Korine's willingness to poke around the garbage-strewn landscape of the American underclass.March 10, 2014
George Washington is a mood piece first, and its triumph is in bottling up the intense feeling of early adolescence, and watching how tragedy transforms it.July 21, 2005
It's possible to keep one's feet on the ground and still appreciate the film's quiet verbal and visual poetry.March 19, 2014
An exceptionally beautiful movie with some winning performances from a young and unproven cast,September 26, 2002
A gracious sleepwalk of a movie that could have used a firmer strut.July 18, 2007
Undistinguished and uninvolving attempt to offer a rural spin on Kids.July 05, 2011
Oh, you could analyze and debate and dissect the individual vignettes to smithereens, which is what makes it literary, I 'spect. But that would be too much like homework.June 24, 2006
The film absorbs elements of documentary and improvisation to produce a remarkably organic whole.August 15, 2002
One of the most striking and affecting American independent films of the year, heralding the arrival of a formidable young talent in Green.July 18, 2007
You have to bring a lot of yourself to this film if you want it to give something back, but the rewards are considerable.