Like most films based on books, the book is usually better. In the case of Girl, this is beyond true. The film hardly resembles the raw and truthful book it is based on except for the fact that the characters names are the same, and situations in the book are touched on. Otherwise, it tries too hard to be cool for the teen audience, and gives all the otherwise talented actors terrible dialouge to work with. Read the book...and Andrea will imerge as more than a rock star-groupie, because in the book, she was. She was a little piece of every teenage girl out there. Read the book, skip the film.