Dirty Girl played at last year's Toronto International Film Festival where The Weinsteins saw the potential of a commercial hit in the making for the quirky Juno/Youth in Revolt crowd and duly snapped up the Juno Temple-led film for a princely seven figure sum! A big success of course for first time filmmaker Abe Sylvia who achieved the nirvana of what every rookie helmer wants when they screen their baby at the festival, but, I just wonder how the filmmaker will feel when all the champagne and celebrations have waned and the film itself is released in U.S. theatres on August 5th. Last month Thompson On Hollywood revealed that Sylvia had been working with Harvey Weinstein on re-cutting Dirty Girl into what would be a 90-minute cut that supposedly would 'broaden its appeal', erasing almost twenty minutes of the feature . I mean I will admit I didn't attend the screening of Dirty Girl in Toronto last year and I haven't read much on the film itself, so I'm being awfully prudent in my accusations, but I always like to trust my gut in these situations and they are telling me this film has been cut to pieces and manufactured in the only way The Weinsteins know how and the rawness and the originality of what probably made the Toronto cut stand-out, has probably been wiped away for something more accessible to a young teen market. I mean did Abe Sylvia really imagine Dirty Girl as a Mean Girls/Crossroads style film that would be marketed with the following trailer and big, bright, vibrant posters for 13 year olds? What we have to remember is that The Weinsteins were at Toronto looking for something they could turn into a commercial winner, they weren't there looking to preserve an artistic voice but to make money. So baring that in mind, here's the trailer for the 90 minute Dirty Girl about a high school terror who runs away with her overweight, gay classmate on a road trip from Oklahoma to California to find the dad she has never met.Such is the business I suppose. I love Juno Temple, she's been my personal young lovely ever since Kaboom but Christ, I'm just not feeling it here. Dirty Girl co-stars Milla Jovovich, William H. Macy, Dwight Yoakam and Mary Steenburgen with a substantial role for newcomer Jeremy Dozier.