Film Roar

Party Girl (1995)

After a recent re-watching of the very enjoyable Christopher Guest mockumentary Best in Show (2000) I realized that while I know the name I could not place actress Parker Posey in any other movies. A quick search on the IMDB showed that I had only seen one other movie with her, The House of Yes (1997) in a tough role that she totally nailed. I thought it was serendipity then when I cam across a DVD of Party Girl (1995) at my local library and brought the copy home eager to see what else Posey was capable of. Now, I think Posey was probably doing the best with what she was given, but unfortunately that was not much. In Party Girl Posey plays Mary, a young New York free spirit trying to find her place in the world. The resulting character is an unlikable drunkard who goes from one bad situation to another never really growing or dong anything very interesting. Posey never manages to infuse her character with the charisma to make us care about what happens to her making the movie a rather pointless and confused mess. I think the movie was supposed to be a comedy but it unfortunately is not funny. I do hope Posey has better works in her repertoire because Party Girl is a flick to be avoided.