Manic Pixie Dream Girl Trope Given A Makeover By NYC-Based Playwrights
Playwrights and actresses Miranda Renee (L) and Maya Shoham (R) Natalie Portman. Zooey Deschanel. Kirsten Dunst. What do these actresses have in common? They have all starred in films where they inhabit a type of character best described as a “Manic Pixie Dream Girl”, a term coined by film critic Nathan Rabin after observing Kirsten Dunst‘s…