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Party Girl (1995)
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Reviews Counted:13
Fresh:8
Rotten:5
Average Rating:6/10
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,... 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 library. Suddenly faced with a regular job AND trying to learn the Dewey Decimal System, Mary tries to get her life in order, finding time to romance a Lebanese falafel vendor and helping her roommate become a DJ along the way. Daisy Von Scherler Mayer's winning comedy captures the spirit of downtown Manhattan in the early 90's, and coaxes a vibrant, winning performance out of Posey. [More]
Starring: Parker Posey, Guillermo Diaz, Sasha Von Scherler, Anthony De Sando
Starring: Parker Posey, Guillermo Diaz, Sasha Von Scherler, Anthony De Sando, Liev Schreiber, Donna Mitchell, Omar Townsend
Director: Daisy Von Scherler Mayer
Director: Daisy Von Scherler Mayer
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Reviews for Party Girl
Party Girl aspires to be cinematic champagne but comes out tasting more like sparkling cider.
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.'
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.
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.
Unlike most of the Hollywood Gen X movies, Party Girl actually looks as if it were made from the inside.
If Party Girl weren't so contrived, and if Posey didn't exude such cold hauteur, all of that might have worked.
The movie is poppy, clever and more than enjoyable, but Posey is something else altogether. She's a revelation.
It's a showcase leading role for Parker Posey, who obviously has the stuff, and generates wacky charm. But the movie never pulls itself together.
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