How to Build a Girl (2019)
102 min
The journey of Midlands teenager Johanna Morrigan, 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. Based on Caitlin Moran's bestselling semi-autobiographical novel.
- Release date
- September 24, 2020
- Country of origin
- United States, United Kingdom
- Music
- Oli Julian
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Cast
- Beanie Feldstein as Johanna Morrigan
- Paddy Considine as Pat Morrigan
- Sarah Solemani as Angie Morrigan
- Alfie Allen as John Kite
- Frank Dillane as Tony Rich
- Laurie Kynaston as Krissi Morrigan
- Arinzé Kene as Kenny
- Tadhg Murphy as Andy Rock
- Ziggy Heath as Derby
- Bobby Schofield as Pricey
- Chris O'Dowd as Alan 'Wilko' Wilkinson
- Joanna Scanlan as Mrs. Belling
- Emma Thompson as Amanda
- Dónal Finn as Karl Boden
- Freya Perry as Morrigan Twin
- Harper Perry as Morrigan Twin
- Violet Amer as Morrigan Twin
- Andi Oliver as Donna Summer
- Michael Sheen as Sigmund Freud
- Sue Perkins as Emily Bronte
- Mel Giedroyc as Charlotte Bronte
- Alexei Sayle as Karl Marx
- Lily Allen as Elizabeth Taylor
- Gemma Arterton as Maria Von Trapp
- Jameela Jamil as Cleopatra
- Lucy Punch as Sylvia Plath
- Sharon Horgan as Jo March
- Ralph Prosser as Lee Veltman
- Johnny Mindlin as Sound Man
- Cleo as Bianca Morrigan
- Stellan Powell as Lupin Morrigan
Crew
- Coky Giedroyc · Director
- Caitlin Moran · Writer
- Debra Hayward · Producer
- Alison Owen · Producer
- Oli Julian · Composer
- Hubert Taczanowski · Cinematographer
- Gary Dollner · Editor
- Gareth C. Scales · Editor
- Shaheen Baig · Casting director
- Amanda McArthur · Production designer