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Information
- Year
- 1995
- Runtime
- 94 min.
- Director
- Daisy von Scherler Mayer
- Genre
- Comedy
- Rating *
- 6.6
- Votes *
- 3,309
- Checks
- 346
- Favs
- 21
- Dislikes
- 6
- Favs/checks
- 6.1% (1:16)
- Favs/dislikes
- 4:1
Top comments
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Siskoid
Presented as a 90s fashion icon in Daisy von Scherler Mayer's Party Girl, Parker Posey is great as a twentysomething who hasn't learned any skills except how to have fun in New York's party scene. Financial troubles force her to beg her godmother for job at a small public library and maybe get her life in order. Filled with amusing characters and several subplots to follow, the movie is never as funny or clever as when it's doing library stuff. Not to say there aren't some very good bits in the club scenes - and it IS required for the push and pull between Posey's two lives - but the library is where it's AT, capturing the tedium of stamping and shelving books, but also the satisfaction of being part of the working mechanism of a fount of knowledge. I used the expression "putting one's life in order" a bit thoughtlessly, above, but it's well chosen because it does serve as a useful metaphor, doesn't it? 12 months ago