Girls Town

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Girls Town

R,

1996,

1h 28m,

Drama

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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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Critics Consensus

Lili Taylor is terrific in Girls Town, a freewheeling and shaggy portrait of female rage.

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Michael Wilmington

Chicago Tribune

Nov 14, 2024

1.5/4

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.

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Jay Carr

Boston Globe

Nov 14, 2024

Girls Town walks the walk, talks to the talk -- and fights the good fight.

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Steven Rea

Philadelphia Inquirer

Nov 14, 2024

3/4

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.

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Philip Bagnall

Loud and Clear Reviews

Jan 14, 2025

3.5/5

Girls Town is more timeless than timely. It’s dressed in painfully ‘90s garb, but the themes it explores and the language it speaks resonate louder now than they did on its original release in 1996.

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Peter Keough

Boston Phoenix

Nov 14, 2024

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.

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Russell Mulvey

Vue Weekly (Edmonton, Alberta)

Nov 14, 2024

[Girls Town] resorts to clichés but makes the clichés workable and believable. Taylor, in particular, is magnificent.

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Jim McKay

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Lili Taylor

Patti Lucci

Anna Grace

Emma

Bruklin Harris

Angela

Aunjanue Ellis-Taylor

Nikki

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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

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