David Boreanaz

David Boreanaz is no angel in this coming of age film about three best friends who’ve always shared everything. But what starts out as some guys’ dream ends up as a nightmare, and you can’t help but feel sorry for the guy by the time "These Girls" have had their way with him.

The trouble begins when Glory (Amanda Walsh, Sons & Daughters) begins babysitting for Keith Clark (Boreanaz, Angel, Bones). Keith’s wife Sue works the night shift at the hospital, and Keith goes out to play cards with his friends. But Keith comes home earlier than Sue — which leaves him a little too much free time on his hands. Soon he and Glory are sleeping together.

Enter Glory’s best friends, Lisa (Holly Lewis) and Keira (Caroline Dhavernas, Wonderfalls). They’re staging a raid on Keith’s back yard where they’ve learned he has a secret garden of marijuana. While they’re making their exit, they overhear Keith and Glory.

When Keira later confronts Glory about the danger of her relationship, Glory retorts that Keira would do the same thing if she had the opportunity. Upon further consideration, Keira agrees and manufactures herself the opportunity, which is not what Glory meant. Then Lisa decides that she wants a go at Keith as well — her baptism is coming up soon which will make her a full-blown 7th Day Adventist, complete with the vow of celibacy for the next five years before marriage, and she wants to get a taste of the forbidden fruit first.

Glory finds out that Keira and Lisa have both slept with Keith — a fact she learns from Keira outside Keith’s window while they watch him with Lisa. Glory storms in on him, the girls fight, and their friendship could end right here, especially as Keith breaks it off completely with Glory and the other girls to escape the insanity he’s blundered into.

But Keira has other plans. She and Lisa talk a reluctant Glory into sharing Keith — and blackmail Keith into accepting the arrangement, using his pot plants and their testimony that he’s already slept with them. Over a barrel, Keith sees no out except to take the deal. Over time, Keith becomes exhausted, and contrives a plan of his own to get out of this mess. Which is when things begin to seriously get messed up.

Director and screenwriter John Hazlett adapts Vivienne Laxdal’s play and deftly captures small town life and the whacked-out logic of teens. Sometimes funny, sometimes somber, and at all times equally real and unreal as only real life can be, "These Girls" is a movie that captures your attention and has you empathizing with all the characters involved. Comparisons to "American Graffiti" are not without merit, and Dhavernas’s performance is reminescent of a younger Demi Moore.

The film features a killer indy-rock soundtrack featuring Tegan & Sara, the Sunday Sinners, the Salteens, Lily Frost, and Ephemera, but the DVD itself is bereft of special features. The audio can be set to either Stereo or 5.1, English only, with no subtitles.

Previews on this disc include "These Girls", "Lost", "See This Movie", "Summer", "Simian Line", and "Hatley High".