Party Girl (1995)

Director:

Daisy von Scherler Mayer

Writers:

Harry Birckmayer (screenplay)
Harry Birckmayer (story)

Release Date:

9 June 1995 (USA)

Genre:

Comedy

Tagline:

Sassy, savvy and definitely clued-in!

Plot:

Mary is a free-spirited young woman with a run-down New York apartment and a high fashion wardrobe. She calls her godmother...

Plot Keywords:

Library | Party | Librarian | Clothes Designer | Friend

Awards:

1 nomination

Cast

  (Cast overview, first billed only)

Parker Posey	...	Mary
Anthony DeSando	...	Derrick
Guillermo Díaz	...	Leo
Donna Mitchell	...	Rene
Liev Schreiber	...	Nigel
Omar Townsend	...	Mustafa
Sasha von Scherler	...	Judy Lindendorf
Lum Chang Pang	...	Policeman
Elizabeth Beer	...	Hi-Tech Falafel Vendor
Richard Topol	...	Hannah Buff
C. Francis Blackchild	...	Wanda
John Ventimiglia	...	Tough Guy (as Johnny Ventimiglia)
Dwight Ewell	...	He-He-Hello Trio
Teresa Lebron	...	He-He-Hello Trio
Wendell Daughtery	...	He-He-Hello Trio

MPAA:

Rated R for language and drug content.

Runtime:

94 min

Country:

USA

Language:

English

Color:

Color (Technicolor)

Sound Mix:

Dolby

Certification:

Argentina:13 | USA:R

Filming Locations:

New York City, New York, USA

Company:

Party Productions

Trivia:

On June 3, 1995, it became the first feature film to be shown in its entirety on the Internet through Glenn Fleishman's Point of Presence Company (POPCO). Parker Posey appeared live in the POPCO offices to introduce the film and welcome Internet viewers.

Quotes:

Mary: He-he- hello!

Movie Connections:

Spin off "Party Girl" (1996)

Soundtrack:

What You About?

I Wish Parker Posey Would Get More Star Vehicles Like This

Parker Posey flashes her 1,000-kilowatt smile frequently in this film, and your enjoyment of the movie will rely primarily on how smitten you are by Posey's quirky charm.

Count me as a follower. I think Posey is a hoot in everything she's in, incapable of giving an ordinary performance. I have a feeling that in "Party Girl" she plays a variation of herself, but that's just fine with me. She appears in virtually every frame of the film, but the movie isn't much of anything without her, so I welcomed the overdose of Posey.

The script for "Party Girl" feels half-assed, though I did appreciate the existential crisis faced by Posey's character and the shelter she seeks in the Dewey Decimal System as a way of bringing order to her chaotic existence. I wish the screenwriters had taken clever hooks like that further. And the ending had a conventional, all-loose-ends-tied-up quality that would better suit a television sitcom than an out-there indie film.

But none of these faults take anything away from Posey herself, so really, how serious can they be?

Grade: B