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- 1995
- R
- First Look International
- 1 h 34 m
- 1995
- R
- First Look International
- 1 h 34 m
Summary Mary (Parker Posey) takes a job as a library clerk to pay back her godmother after being arrested for throwing illegal parties in her loft.
Directed By: Daisy von Scherler Mayer
Written By: Harry Birckmayer, Sheila Gaffney, Daisy von Scherler Mayer
- 1995
- R
- First Look International
- 1 h 34 m
- 1995
- R
- First Look International
- 1 h 34 m
Party Girl
55
8.0
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Summary Mary (Parker Posey) takes a job as a library clerk to pay back her godmother after being arrested for throwing illegal parties in her loft.
Directed By: Daisy von Scherler Mayer
Written By: Harry Birckmayer, Sheila Gaffney, Daisy von Scherler Mayer
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Metascore
Mixed or Average
Based on 16 Critic Reviews
55
50% Positive
8 Reviews
8 Reviews
38% Mixed
6 Reviews
6 Reviews
13% Negative
2 Reviews
2 Reviews
Metascore
Mixed or Average
Based on 16 Critic Reviews
55
50% Positive
8 Reviews
8 Reviews
38% Mixed
6 Reviews
6 Reviews
13% Negative
2 Reviews
2 Reviews
The film knows how absurd this is, yet its triumph is that, by the end, we're actually rooting for Mary to see the library as her salvation.
This coming-of-age movie is the sweetest, frothiest fantasy in some time. [28 Jul 1995]
User Score
Generally Favorable
Based on 38 User Ratings
8.0
76% Positive
29 Ratings
29 Ratings
16% Mixed
6 Ratings
6 Ratings
8% Negative
3 Ratings
3 Ratings
User Score
Generally Favorable
Based on 38 User Ratings
8.0
76% Positive
29 Ratings
29 Ratings
16% Mixed
6 Ratings
6 Ratings
8% Negative
3 Ratings
3 Ratings
[SPOILER ALERT: This review contains spoilers.]
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What makes it delicious fun is Posey, a party girl for the ages.
This trifle about a dizzy downtown New York scenester who gets a grip on her life is energized by several attractive characters and enough youthful pep to put it over as an upbeat diversion for teens and twentysomethings, though it has no more substance than bubblegum music.
When Party Girl isn't being silly, it tries to be endearing and socially redeeming, and to a good degree succeeds.
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."
there's no joy in this movie. It's a safe, compromised, even preachy, fable; a wannabe hip romp that never gets going. [07 Jul 1995]
Reminds me of living in NYC in the 2000's as this scene had just left. The movie is watchable and also boring. Nothing really happens and her story of growing up is not really reflective of society. Also, they really downplayed the drug use in that scene.
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