The Girl (2012 independent film)

The Girl is an independent film written and directed by David Riker, and starring Abbie Cornish and Will Patton. It debuted at the 2012 Tribeca Film Festival. It opened in select theaters for a one-week awards-qualifying period on December 14, 2012, and had a limited theatrical release in March 2013.

Synopsis
Cornish plays a single mother who helps illegal immigrants to cross the border from Mexico into Texas. A young Mexican girl named Rosa comes into her care.

Cast

 * Abbie Cornish as Ashley
 * Will Patton as Tommy
 * Maritza Santiago Hernandez as Rosa
 * Giovanna Zacarías as Enriqueta
 * Ángeles Cruz as Rosa's Mother
 * Raúl Castillo as Border Agent
 * Luis Fernando Peña as Beto
 * Isabel Cruz Daza as Edith
 * Ivonne Cruz Daza as Cecilia
 * Liliana Alberto as Ofelia
 * Isabel Sánchez Lara as Rosa's Grandmother

Reception
The Girl has received generally mixed reviews. Review aggregator Rotten Tomatoes reports that 53% of 17 critics gave the film a positive review, with an average rating of 5.2/10. Metacritic, which assigns a weighted average score from 1–100 to reviews from mainstream critics, gave the film a score of 53 based on 11 reviews indicating "mixed or average reviews".