“And I see that not touching for so long was a drive to the beach with the windows rolled up so the waves feel that much colder.”

The Most Girl Part of You is a USC graduate thesis film to be directed by Mark Cummins in March 2010. It is adapted from an original short story of the same name by Amy Hempel.

The film is about two teenagers, Jack “Big Guy” Fitch and Kate Puerfield, who have been best friends since they were little. After his mother takes her life, Big Guy’s once oddball, charming behavior becomes just plain odd, and Kate finds herself both appalled and moved by the increasingly outrageous forms of his bereavement.

After a harrowing accident, Kate begins to acknowledge the extent of her attraction to her friend, and their relationship peaks one fateful night--on a wave of mutilation, grief, confusion, and finally exhilaration at the end of childhood and the beginning of something else.

the most girl part of you a USC Thesis Film