Mary is a spiritual descendant of Holly Golightly, and there's an echo, as well, of Edie Sedgwick, the late Andy Warhol superstar who moved the American-princess-on-a-bender mythology into the drug-rock era.
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05/27/08
Party Girl (1995)
75 %
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Reviews Counted: 32
Fresh: 24
Rotten:8
Average Rating: 6.2/10
Runtime: 1 hr 34 mins
Genre: Comedies
Synopsis: Mary, a flighty, unemployed, 24-year-old Manhattanite (Parker Posey) gets thrown in jail for having a rent party and must call her godmother, a librarian, to bail her out. Her godmother complies, but makes Mary work off her bail at the... [More]
Starring: Parker Posey, Guillermo Diaz, Sasha Von Scherler, Anthony De Sando
Director: Daisy Von Scherler Mayer
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Reviews for Party Girl
Top Critic Party Girl aspires to be cinematic champagne but comes out tasting more like sparkling cider.
05/27/08
Top Critic The cast is uniformly excellent -- particularly the relentlessly effervescent Posey and the imperious Sasha von Scherler, the director's mother -- and the modern take on old-fashioned romantic comedy is surprisingly effective.
05/27/08
This exudes trendiness at regular intervals, and otherwise manages to be reasonably charming about Manhattan's melting pot culture, but my general response was still 'Wake me when it's over.'
05/27/08
Top Critic Party Girl wouldn't be as beloved without Parker Posey, the jewel in this indie crown.
01/21/08
It's great to see where Parker Posey established her indie cred in this too-cool comedy.
07/29/07
The part played by Parker Posey may be considered a modern version of Breakfast at Tiffany's Holly Golightly. By day, she works as a library clerk, by night she's queen of the club scenes, a camp diva blessed with cool deadpan and funkiness.
10/08/06
To be perfectly honest, Party Girl follows a fairly predictable narrative; the quality lies almost exclusively in the details.
09/13/03
Independent films tend to favor low-key realism in their lead performances, but Party Girl has a real movie star turn at its center.
08/30/03
The screenplay, by Ms. Mayer and Harry Birckmayer, has its occasionally funny lines, but not nearly enough to certify the film as a hip urban comedy in tune with the cutting edge of downtown New York.
05/20/03
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Spunky and sassy drama about a young woman who tries to create herself anew using discipline and devotion.
08/23/02
If bad behaviour and smugness were truly charming, Party Girl might be as much fun as it imagines it is. And Madonna might even have a decent movie career.
04/12/02
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