Manic Pixie Dream Girls Are The Scourge Of Modern Cinema - garden state - Jezebel

Manic Pixie Dream Girls Are The Scourge Of Modern Cinema - garden state - Jezebel: "The always-relevant Onion A.V. Club has coined a term for the type of movie girl-woman whom we've long despised: the Manic Pixie Dream Girl. The A.V. Club defines the MPDG as 'that bubbly, shallow cinematic creature that exists solely in the fevered imaginations of sensitive writer-directors to teach broodingly soulful young men to embrace life and its infinite mysteries and adventures.'"