I Shot Andy Warhol

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I Shot Andy Warhol

R,

1996,

1h 46m,

Biography

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5,000+ Ratings

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Valerie Solanas (Lili Taylor) is an aspiring writer who moves to New York City and supports herself with prostitution. Valerie meets controversial artist Andy Warhol (Jared Harris) and a host of other eccentrics in the New York art scene. While a book publisher wants Valerie to write a sexually explicit novel, Valerie sets out to convince Warhol to produce her play "Up Your Ass." Based on a true story, the film follows Valerie's journey from ambitious author to obsessed, delusional assassin.

Coleman Spilde

Salon.com

May 6, 2026

Written with clear compassion and boasting a robust performance by Lili Taylor, “I Shot Andy Warhol” portrays Solanas as a product of modern alienation.

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Mike Clark

USA Today

Jan 1, 2000

3.5/4

Though this terrifically cast movie may prove a tad too detached even for some members of its targeted audience, it covers remarkable ground in less than two hours.

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Roger Ebert

Chicago Sun-Times

Jan 1, 2000

3.5/4

[Mary Harron] does two remarkable things in her movie: She makes Solanas almost sympathetic and sometimes moving and funny, and she creates a portrait of the Factory that's devastating and convincing.

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Sean Burns

Spliced Personality (Substack)

Aug 12, 2026

The product of a more sophisticated era in American cinema, when movies were comfortable presenting problematic characters without instructing the audience as to how we’re supposed to feel about them.

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Marya E. Gates

Cool People Have Feelings, Too. (Substack)

Jun 29, 2026

Harron’s attention to historical detail is wholly transporting, as it conjures both allure and degradation of The Factory.

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Lee Jutton

Film Inquiry

Jun 13, 2026

An incisive depiction of the violent clash between pop art and radical politics, I Shot Andy Warhol remains one of the most electric debut features of the 1990s.

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Rey S

Apr 6, 2019

Lili Taylor's punchy performance as Valerie Solanas, the misogynistic homosexual feminist who assassinated the titular American artist mismatches this queerish comedy with shades of eccentricity reminiscent of Andy Warhol's Factory productions.

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Draco R

Feb 10, 2018

Valerie Solanas was nuts and yet her SCUM Manifesto still polarizes people. This film began life as a documentary and retains the immediacy of a doc. Lili Taylor is wonderful as Solanas. Captures the spirit of the times.

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Synopsis

Valerie Solanas (Lili Taylor) is an aspiring writer who moves to New York City and supports herself with prostitution. Valerie meets controversial artist Andy Warhol (Jared Harris) and a host of other eccentrics in the New York art scene. While a book publisher wants Valerie to write a sexually explicit novel, Valerie sets out to convince Warhol to produce her play "Up Your Ass." Based on a true story, the film follows Valerie's journey from ambitious author to obsessed, delusional assassin.

Director: Mary Harron
Producer: Christine Vachon, Tom Kalin
Screenwriter: Mary Harron, Daniel Minahan, Jeremiah Newton
Distributor: Orion Pictures, Samuel Goldwyn Company
Production Co: Samuel Goldwyn Company
Rating: R
Genre: Biography
Original Language: English
Release Date (Theaters): May 1, 1996, Wide
Rerelease Date (Theaters): Jun 12, 2026
Release Date (DVD): Jan 23, 2001
Box Office (Gross USA): $1.8M
Runtime: 1h 46m
Sound Mix: Surround

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