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Girls Town

  • 19961996
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  • 1h 30m
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6.3/10
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Girls Town (1996)
ComedyDrama
A look at a group of girl friends coming-of-age during their senior year of high school in urban America. Nikki and Emma have a heart to heart talk one evening about how much they'll miss ea... Read allA look at a group of girl friends coming-of-age during their senior year of high school in urban America. Nikki and Emma have a heart to heart talk one evening about how much they'll miss each other at college next year, but the next day, Nikki doesn't show up at school: she's co... Read allA look at a group of girl friends coming-of-age during their senior year of high school in urban America. Nikki and Emma have a heart to heart talk one evening about how much they'll miss each other at college next year, but the next day, Nikki doesn't show up at school: she's committed suicide. The friends steal Nikki's journal and discover that she'd been raped. The... Read all
IMDb RATING
6.3/10
800
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    • Jim McKay
  • Writers
    • Jim McKay
    • Denise Casano
    • Anna Grace
  • Stars
    • Lili Taylor
    • Bruklin Harris
    • Anna Grace
    • Jim McKay
  • Writers
    • Jim McKay
    • Denise Casano
    • Anna Grace
  • Stars
    • Lili Taylor
    • Bruklin Harris
    • Anna Grace
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    • 17User reviews
    • 17Critic reviews
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    Lili Taylor
    Lili Taylor
    • Patti Lucci
    Bruklin Harris
    Bruklin Harris
    • Angela
    Anna Grace
    • Emma
    Aunjanue Ellis
    Aunjanue Ellis
    • Nikki
    Ramya Pratt
    Ramya Pratt
    • Tomy
    Asia Minor
    • Marlys Giovanni
    Carl Kwaku Ford
    • Jessie (Boom Box Guy)
    Guillermo Diaz
    Guillermo Diaz
    • Dylan
    • (as Guillermo Díaz)
    Shondalin
    • Teacher
    Ernestine Jackson
    • Nikki's Mom
    John Ventimiglia
    John Ventimiglia
    • Eddie
    Mary Joy
    Mary Joy
    • Cora
    Stephanie Berry
    • Angela's Mom
    Tara Carnes
    • Heather
    Yassira
    • Benita
    Nathaniel Freeman
    Nathaniel Freeman
    • Cam
    Michael Imperioli
    Michael Imperioli
    • Anthony
    Tom Gilroy
    Tom Gilroy
    • Richard Helms
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      • Denise Casano
      • Anna Grace
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    • Trivia
      Aunjanue Ellis's debut.
    • Quotes

      Angela's mom: This is your life Angela.

      Angela: Exactly. My life.

    • Connections
      Featured in At the Movies: A Very Brady Sequel/She's the One/Kansas City/Girls Town/The Spitfire Grill (1996)
    • Soundtracks
      Prologue (Nikki Remembers)
      Sound design and mix by Alex Hall and Brendan Dolan

      Excerpt from "Before Her Time"

      Performed by Vic Chesnutt and Rob Veal

      Composed by Vic Chesnutt and Rob Veal

      Published by Ghetto Bells Music and Playground Treatment Music

      (Administered by Bug Music Inc.) (BMI)

      Sample taken from "Imperial"

      Performed by Unrest

      Courtesy of Teen Beat Records

      By Arrangement with Ocean Park Music Group

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    Flat but well acted and thought-provoking
    At the center of this largely improvised, sometimes moving, mostly flat cinema verite-style drama about three young women who are dealing with the suicide of one of their friends, there is a mesmerizing performance by 29-year-old Lili Taylor as the Latino, single mother, high school student Patti. I've seen only a few movies with Taylor, "Short Cuts," "Say Anything..." and "Ransom," and in each she was upstaged by actors with more screen time and juicier roles, but I know she's received rave notices for her turns in "Household Saints" and as the "I" in "I Shot Andy Warhol." Here she gives an astonishingly vibrant performance that will have you guessing her age, her ethnicity, and whether or not she's really Lili Taylor. She looks the part with just some rudimentary makeup, yes, and that's nothing to sneeze at, but she also oozes authenticity -- she plays her part better than those other actresses who are just playing themselves.

    The rest of the movie has a few moments of truth and also a few choice repeats from High School's Greatest Hits (no small feat either; is the independent market where we must go to find realistic portrayals of public education?), but mostly it features some uninspired improv jobs and a rather sloppy directing job by Jim McKay -- he seems unwilling to exercise any discipline over any of the actors, probably too enamored with the improv style, and as a result the difficulty in framing their more kinetic scenes becomes too much.

    Add to this the fact that McKay fails to visibly conclude a story where no real story exists. Malick could end his storyless films properly; Kubrick, too. This is Sundance territory, though, the tightrope upon which films must be made that are daring enough to seem "new," but with enough of a conventional structure to sell tickets. Judging by the rejection of most Sundance releases (with a few notable exceptions) by critics, distributors, and audiences, the festival seems to be hurting itself by playing both sides. So, in a microscopic sense, does "Girls Town."
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      • August 21, 1996 (United States)
      • United States
      • English
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      • Hackensack, New Jersey, USA
    • Production companies
      • Boomer Pictures
      • C-Hundred Film Corporation
      • Dolly Bell Pictures Inc.
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    • 1 hour 30 minutes
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