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Girls Town

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Mid-1990s, New York City. Patti, Angela, Emma and Nikki are high school seniors and best friends preparing for life beyond graduation. Their dreams for the future differ greatly -- Angela wants to become a poet, Emma and Nikki have are heading for college, and Patti is a young mother looking for stability in her kid's life -- but the four bright, young women are steadfastly loyal to each other in a way only teenagers know how to be. Their lives are then completely upended when, after being sexually assaulted, Nikki unexpectedly commits suicide. Grieving, angry, and forced to return to daily life without satisfying recourse for their feelings, the girls must come of age with a newfound understanding about the patriarchal world in which they live.
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Lili Taylor is terrific in Girls Town, a freewheeling and shaggy portrait of female rage.

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Michael Wilmington Chicago Tribune At its best, Girls Town has a scalding vigor and spontaneity, a real sense of the streets. At its worst -- which is far too often -- it's just as shallow, violent and cliché-ridden as the big-budget movies whose excesses its makers want to correct. Rated: 1.5/4 Nov 14, 2024 Full Review Jay Carr Boston Globe Girls Town walks the walk, talks to the talk -- and fights the good fight. Nov 14, 2024 Full Review Steven Rea Philadelphia Inquirer Although Girls Town has moments that border on the moral didacticism of an afterschool special, these too are leavened by the actresses' honest, hard-hitting portrayals. Rated: 3/4 Nov 14, 2024 Full Review Peter Keough Boston Phoenix McKay's film does more than just sensationalize this subject -- it explores it with intensity, authenticity, and intelligence, leaving the questions it probes and raised unresolved and challenging. Nov 14, 2024 Full Review Russell Mulvey Vue Weekly (Edmonton, Alberta) [Girls Town] resorts to clichés but makes the clichés workable and believable. Taylor, in particular, is magnificent. Nov 14, 2024 Full Review Tim Appelo Oregonian A story more or less made up by the actors as they went along. This adds vivid spontaneity, but it makes the strongest actor stand out more than she should, and it makes the movie disjointed to the point of incoherence. Rated: 2.5/4 Nov 14, 2024 Full Review Read all reviews

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Jose D This movie is a beautiful slice of REAL life, and it's really inspiring Rated 4.5 out of 5 stars 01/15/24 Full Review Steve D I like the story but the directing and script were not as good as other elements. Rated 2 out of 5 stars 02/15/23 Full Review Audience Member Loved this movie more each time I saw it. Wish it were available on netflix or something like that. Rated 4 out of 5 stars 02/04/23 Full Review Audience Member Haven't seen in a long time! Rated 4 out of 5 stars 01/30/23 Full Review Audience Member I'm really glad I managed to watch this on the last day before it was removed from Netflix streaming. This movie feel so real, even though it's dated. It's equally painful and exhilarating to watch the girls deal with things, sometimes in ways that are unhealthy but they work with what's available to them. Lili Taylor is pretty cool. Rated 3 out of 5 stars 02/06/23 Full Review Audience Member A classic of early American indie realism films. Took forever to be easily available again but it's on Netflix streaming now. The slang and clothing clearly dates but the issues are fairly consistent today and the performances are spot on. (A film about a group of girls in a working class community. Like Foxfire but hewing way closer to home without the gang formation aspect that occasionally came across as vengeful wish-fulfillment.) Rated 4 out of 5 stars 02/27/23 Full Review Read all reviews
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Synopsis Mid-1990s, New York City. Patti, Angela, Emma and Nikki are high school seniors and best friends preparing for life beyond graduation. Their dreams for the future differ greatly -- Angela wants to become a poet, Emma and Nikki have are heading for college, and Patti is a young mother looking for stability in her kid's life -- but the four bright, young women are steadfastly loyal to each other in a way only teenagers know how to be. Their lives are then completely upended when, after being sexually assaulted, Nikki unexpectedly commits suicide. Grieving, angry, and forced to return to daily life without satisfying recourse for their feelings, the girls must come of age with a newfound understanding about the patriarchal world in which they live.
Director
Jim McKay
Producer
Lauren Zalaznick
Screenwriter
Denise Casano, Anna Grace, Jim McKay, Lili Taylor, Bruklin Harris
Distributor
October Films
Production Co
C-Hundred Film Corp.
Rating
R
Genre
Drama
Original Language
English
Release Date (Theaters)
Jan 20, 1996, Original
Rerelease Date (Theaters)
Jan 17, 2025
Release Date (Streaming)
Sep 26, 2025
Box Office (Gross USA)
$508.7K
Runtime
1h 28m
Sound Mix
Stereo