Girls Town

This movie is one of the best i've seen. Dramatic and heart-breakingly funny. 'Girls Town' is the tale of three teenagers girls from the wrong side of town, there's Nikki, who has the cahnce to attend at Princeton, Patti a single teen mother, Angela who has to deal with an overbearing mother and Emma who has the problem of dealing with over shallow boyfriends. But one day, out of the blue, Nikki doesn't turn up to school, she's killed her self. After the other girls steal her diary they find out that Nikki has been raped, thus the girls set out on a journey of self-discovery to make the men in their lifes that have hurt them, pay big time!.

I feel for all the girls, being a teen my self, it made me think of how life is growing up, especially girls. A master piece of a movie for which Lili Taylor who plays Patti deserved an Oscar. Brilliant!

Is this movie on dvd or anything? My wife really loves this movie just can't find it anywhere.

Despite previous reviews, I felt this movie was really well thought out, I saw this movie when it first came out and it definitely reached me. The subject touches but not meant to be a description of urban life at all. If you see the movie, you will understand what the real issue is. I am going to have to disagree with the dude who posted previously, this movie is geared towards anyone who believes in the issues that plague our youth and our young girls of color. It makes you want to break down the ideals that perpetuate class-ism, the gender binary and other issues that separate people. I hope others see it for what it is. Its reflective of the type of role our society and communities play in a developing child's mind. I think it should be shown to a mixed audience of boys and girls so that they can see the perspective of the other sex. I think it speaks a lot about violence in our schools.

I accidentally ran into this movie on the Sundance channel and couldn't stop watching it. Menace and danger plus banality and boredom - high school from top to bottom, and nothing that anyone does or says in this really well-acted film is anything other than exactly what a 17-year-old would do or say. Good moments include the teen mom telling off a guy for dogging her one day and accepting his charm offensive the next; the only visible mom having no ability to say any unangry, unjudgemental thing to her tough, suffering daughter; and the ineffective and heartbreaking confrontation with the guy the three friends think drove their fourth friend to suicide. The girls are p_ssed, resentful, revengeful, smart, excited, violent, and together all in on the right scale - an excellent girls' Dazed and Confused that gets a perfect 10 for realness.

Lili Taylor is excellent in this film (as per usual). After watching this film I only wish that we could see more of the other two female actors (Bruklin Harris and Anna Grace) in this film do more work. A dark film that hits home because of the solid in the moment acting. A special film. The film credits these three fine women actors with writing credits a long with the director and Denise Casano. When watching the film you feel as if you are there due to the fine acting and excellent editing. I wish we could see more from the other two actors because they were really good in this film... it seems that this film is a lost gem.