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  • 2006
  • R
  • Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer (MGM)
  • 1 h 40 m
  • 2006
  • R
  • Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer (MGM)
  • 1 h 40 m

Summary Factory Girl imaginatively unfolds the comet-like rise and fall of 60s "it girl" Edie Sedgwick (Miller), the blazing superstar who came to define both the glamour and the tragedy of our celebrity-obsessed culture. (The Weinstein Company)

Directed By: George Hickenlooper

Written By: Captain Mauzner, Simon Monjack, Aaron Richard Golub

  • 2006
  • R
  • Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer (MGM)
  • 1 h 40 m
  • 2006
  • R
  • Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer (MGM)
  • 1 h 40 m
Factory Girl
Metascore Mixed or Average Based on 27 Critic Reviews
45
User Score Generally Favorable Based on 21 User Ratings
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Summary Factory Girl imaginatively unfolds the comet-like rise and fall of 60s "it girl" Edie Sedgwick (Miller), the blazing superstar who came to define both the glamour and the tragedy of our celebrity-obsessed culture. (The Weinstein Company)

Directed By: George Hickenlooper

Written By: Captain Mauzner, Simon Monjack, Aaron Richard Golub

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Metascore
Mixed or Average Based on 27 Critic Reviews
45
30% Positive
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48% Mixed
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22% Negative
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Mixed or Average Based on 27 Critic Reviews
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30% Positive
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48% Mixed
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22% Negative
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75
Pearce makes you see why Edie found Warhol as irresistible as he found her. His otherworldly eyes focus on both who she is and what she represents. He sees her as a star.
By Michael Sragow FULL REVIEW
67
As Factory Girl more than acknowledges, Edie Sedgwick's downward spiral was ultimately her own doing. Yet even as the film captures the silk-screen outline of her rise and fall, it never quite colors in who she was.
By Owen Gleiberman FULL REVIEW
60
Director George Hickenlooper captures the energy and ultra-irony of Warhol's scene, but his attempts to give the film a conventional biopic arc end up wallowing in dime-store psychology.
By Sheri Linden FULL REVIEW
50
It's lively but chaotic and evasive. The period re-creation switches on and off. We get a sense of what the silver-walled Factory was like, but not the rest of swinging Manhattan in the '60s.
By Michael Wilmington FULL REVIEW
50
The wild, unhinged life of Andy Warhol's favorite "superstar," Edie Sedgwick, is refashioned in Factory Girl as a tame biopic with little feel for the 1960s New York Underground.
By Robert Koehler FULL REVIEW
30
Poor little girl, chewed up in the Factory machinery. It was inevitable, perhaps, that a biopic of the Pop princess would stick to pop psychology, but did it have to feel as flat as a silkscreen? With its hackneyed party scenes and jet-set montages, Factory Girl fails even at frivolity.
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25
The film strays so far from verisimilitude that it feels more like a big celebrity dress-up party than history brought to life. The profoundly silly Internet favorite series "Yacht Rock" offered a more convincing take on pop-culture history and that was at least going for laughs.
By Nathan Rabin FULL REVIEW

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43% Mixed
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5% Negative
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Production Company The Weinstein Company, L.I.F.T. Production, Holly Wiersma Productions
Release Date Dec 29, 2006
Duration 1 h 40 m
Rating R
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Tagline When Andy met Edie, life imitated art.
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Deauville Film Festival
• 1 Nomination

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