How To Build A Girl

Theatrical - Limited 2020-05-08

Cast Beanie Feldstein Emma Thompson Michael Sheen Gemma Arterton Lucy Punch Chris O'Dowd
Directed by Coky Giedroyc
Written by Caitlin Moran

Genres: Comedy

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The novel charts the journey of teenager Johanna Morrigan (Beanie Feldstein), who reinvents herself as Dolly Wilde: fast-talking, lady sex-adventurer, moves to London, and gets a job as music critic in the hope of saving her poverty stricken family in Wolverhampton.

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