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The bare bones of the plot of “Girls Town” are not much more subtle than the events in a 1970s exploitation picture like the recently (and unnecessarily) revived “Switchblade Sisters.” But nuance is everything, and the movie's qualities are in the performances and dialogue.
85% Tomatometer 26 Reviews 80% Audience Score 500+ Ratings When high school senior Nikki (Aunjanue Ellis) commits suicide, the rest of her outcast friends try to figure out why. They stumble onto...
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- Jim Mckay
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- Lili Taylor
Girls Town (1959) - IMDb. Cast & crew. User reviews. Trivia. FAQ. IMDbPro. All topics. Girls Town. 1959. 1h 30m. IMDb RATING. 3.8 /10. 1K. YOUR RATING. Rate. Crime Drama Music. Silver is a troubled teenage girl sent to a Catholic reform school, where she has trouble fitting in. Director. Charles F. Haas. Writers. Robert Hardy Andrews. Robert Smith.
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- Crime, Drama, Music
- Charles F. Haas
- 1959-10-05
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Girls Town is a 1959 American drama film directed by Charles F. Haas and starring Mamie Van Doren, Mel Tormé, and Ray Anthony. Paul Anka also appears in his first acting role. Van Doren stars as a juvenile delinquent who is sent to a girls' school run by nuns , where she finds herself unable to help her sister.
Jan 24, 1996 · By Emanuel Levy. Lili Taylor, who’s probably the busiest actress at this year’s Sundance Film Festival, gives a superlative, gut-wrenching performance in “Girls Town,” a powerfully raw,...
Girls Town - Movie Reviews | Rotten Tomatoes. Girls Town Reviews. All Critics. Top Critics. All Audience. Verified Audience. Kathi Maio On the Issues. It is outspoken, unpolished, and...
n "Girls Town," Jim McKay's provocative ode to teen-age sisterhood in the hip-hop generation, Lili Taylor etches a type too rarely seen in the movies. As Patti, a tough-talking, hyperactive daredevil in a clique of four, she embodies the kind of motor-mouthed tomboy most likely to be named class clown in the high school yearbook.