Four high school senior girls navigate friendship, trauma, and personal struggles in urban America. After one friend's tragic death reveals painful secrets, the remaining trio support each o... Read allFour high school senior girls navigate friendship, trauma, and personal struggles in urban America. After one friend's tragic death reveals painful secrets, the remaining trio support each other while confronting their own challenges.Four high school senior girls navigate friendship, trauma, and personal struggles in urban America. After one friend's tragic death reveals painful secrets, the remaining trio support each other while confronting their own challenges.
- Awards
- 3 wins & 2 nominations total
Aunjanue Ellis-Taylor
- Nikki
- (as Aunjanue Ellis)
Guillermo Diaz
- Dylan
- (as Guillermo Díaz)
Featured reviews
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!
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!
i *loved* this movie. it is very realistic and it deals with very realistic issues that are difficult to deal with. what i liked most about it, was that rather than everyone getting shot or something which is typical with "urban" movies, this one even tho times were difficult, the characters still plodded onwards towards school. nice1.
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.
Is this movie on dvd or anything? My wife really loves this movie just can't find it anywhere.
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.
Did you know
- TriviaThe screenplay was developed partly through improvisations by the actors. Anna Grace, Bruklin Harris, and Lili Taylor received screenplay credits alongside director Jim McKay and screenwriter Denise Casano.
- Quotes
Angela's mom: This is your life Angela.
Angela: Exactly. My life.
- SoundtracksPrologue (Nikki Remembers)
Sound design and mix by Alex Hall and Brendan Dolan
Excerpt from "Before Her Time"
Performed by Vic Chesnutt and Rob Veal
Composed by Vic Chesnutt and Rob Veal
Published by Ghetto Bells Music and Playground Treatment Music
(Administered by Bug Music Inc.) (BMI)
Sample taken from "Imperial"
Performed by Unrest
Courtesy of Teen Beat Records
By Arrangement with Ocean Park Music Group
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Box office
- Gross US & Canada
- $512,344
- Opening weekend US & Canada
- $4,665
- Jan 19, 2025
- Gross worldwide
- $512,344
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