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Summary: Total Entertainment!
Review: I woke up in the middle of the night a few years ago and this movie was just coming on. I think it is one of the best-most entertaining movies ever. The personalities of these characters are so great and fun to watch and the acting is so beleivable-you feel like if you make a visit to NYC you might bump into one of them. Also to add-this movie is what a real indi film is...a really great-well acted story that just happened to be shot on a low budget. It doesn't need be anything other than what it just is-a cool movie.
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Summary: let's hear it for the DJ
Review: Leo is so funny in this movie, he says he's a DJ at the hottest club, "yo, because I'm GOOD!" whereas the club owner had hired him because his "tape didn't suck" and she had nobody else available. And how does his record collection jump from "over 1000 albums" to "2000 albums" so quickly? And just what was so bad about "Teddy Rogers"- we may never know the whole story. "Be careful of pinata!" Also a good movie in that you can hate the staff sargeant head librarian character, just as you would in real life, because you've probably seen librarians just like her before in your own area.
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Summary: LET THE PARTY BEGIN!
Review: Mary is a girl who loves to have fun. After she gets busted by the cops for throwing an illegal rent party, she decides that she needs some steady income. She enlists the help of her godmother who is a librarian and gets a job as a clerk. It takes most of the movie for her to realize her dream of becoming a librarian. Along the way she falls in love, attends some great parties, and learns the Dewey Decimal System. This movie is just a lot of fun and Parker Posey, as Mary is terrific! A must see for Posey fans.
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Summary: Funny Flick
Review: Mary is not a librarian but a library clerk who later aspires to be a librarian. It was nice to see the professional get a little bit of respect in such a humorous way.
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Summary: Funny Flick
Review: Mary wants nothing more out of life than to party 'til she drops. Unfortunately, she lands herself in jail and needs her godmother's help for the bail. However, she draws the line at giving Mary more money, and a penniless Mary finds herself agreeing to work at the same library her godmother works at. For a while, Mary exists as a Party Girl at night and a librarian by day. None of her friends see her as anything other than the Party Girl, and it's only after she starts working at the library that she starts to see herself as someone with a future.Granted, this movie definitely has problems. The romance with the falafel salesman is weak, and it's not exactly a subtle movie. Mary and her friends can be absolutely clueless (everyone's mentioned the "Imitate a cat puking" bit, but I'll mention it again - I discovered that it was possible to laugh and cringe at the same time). As someone who works in the library, however, I have to say that some of the library humor is really fabulous. I can't count how many times I've wanted to do what Mary did and give the people who reshelve things just anywhere a piece of my mind. All the librarians I know who've seen this movie have loved it, so, if you work at a library, I would definitely suggest seeing this. If you don't work at a library, there's still a lot here that's worth seeing, although the movie may rate more of a three for you.
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Summary: library propaganda with a side of romance
Review: Mary wants nothing more out of life than to party 'til she drops. Unfortunately, she lands herself in jail and needs her godmother's help for the bail. However, she draws the line at giving Mary more money, and a penniless Mary finds herself agreeing to work at the same library her godmother works at. For a while, Mary exists as a Party Girl at night and a librarian by day. None of her friends see her as anything other than the Party Girl, and it's only after she starts working at the library that she starts to see herself as someone with a future. Granted, this movie definitely has problems. The romance with the falafel salesman is weak, and it's not exactly a subtle movie. Mary and her friends can be absolutely clueless (everyone's mentioned the "Imitate a cat puking" bit, but I'll mention it again - I discovered that it was possible to laugh and cringe at the same time). As someone who works in the library, however, I have to say that some of the library humor is really fabulous. I can't count how many times I've wanted to do what Mary did and give the people who reshelve things just anywhere a piece of my mind. All the librarians I know who've seen this movie have loved it, so, if you work at a library, I would definitely suggest seeing this. If you don't work at a library, there's still a lot here that's worth seeing, although the movie may rate more of a three for you.
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Summary: Yo-yos in Soho
Review: Parker Posey is in great danger of becoming the Sandy Dennis of her generation, playing the "kooky but lovable eccentric" yet again in this somewhat dumbed-down version of "Last Days Of Disco". Posey's obviously natural state of perpetual twitchiness is put to good use in the role of librarian by day, party animal by night. (Naming the character "Mary" is an obvious goof on "Marian the Librarian".)The scene where a drunken Mary breaks into the library after hours, bound and determined to master the Dewey Decimal System by dawn is quite a howl. On a sliding scale of similar New York Downtown Scene films, with "Desperately Seeking Susan" at the top and the dismal "Slaves Of New York" at the bottom, this one falls somewhere in the middle. A mostly entertaining and breezy comedy (as long as you don't think about it too hard!).
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Summary: Adorable
Review: Parker Posey is talented and beautiful, strong, self-assured, and yet does not take herself too seriously. She makes this movie the delight it is. Of course, the excellent soundtrack helps. There are plenty of funny moments. My favorite scene is when she arranges her roommate's album collection (and he is a serious DJ!) according to the Dewey System. He is furious, but she calms him down after explaining how she has cross-referenced Sylvester in both the 70's Disco and Diva categories. Absurd humor is always the best. There's plenty of colorful clothing, dancing, music, décor. Why didn't this become a cult movie?
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Summary: "He-He-Hello! " This movie is definitely not "Ti-i-yard!"
Review: Parker Posey is wonderful, funny, witty, and stylish in this "Breakfast-at-Tiffany's meets Saturday Night Fever film." Critics who bashed this movie just dont get it (and you can't take that several ways). The movie actually plays like an adult cartoon, because it's not suppossed to be heavy or deep or politically insightful. It was just about fun and style. "Hello Channel!"
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Summary: Parker Posey as the Holly Golightly of her Generation
Review: Parker Posey plays Mary, a NYC "Party Girl" who goes from party to party, dance club to dance club, just wanting to have fun. Mary is basically broke, but her lifestyle requires her to act as is she did. She has designer clothes, but only because she steals they from closets at the parties she attends. Of course, her life is a rather sterile existence, because she never connects with anyone else on any real level. "Party Girl" captures the beginning of Mary's downward spiral, and that is when first time director Daisy von Scherler Mayer throws in the monkey wrench: Mary has a crush on Mustafa (Omar Townsend) a falafel vendor (really) and ends up moonlighting as a library clerk. In this case, love means having to learn the Dewey Decimal system. Many might find this plot twist to be totally absurd, but, hey, I happen to like the absurd. Besides, it still fits with the theme of the film, which is not that Mary needs to out grow being a Party Girl, she simply needs to be cherished. "Party Girl" would make an interesting double feature with "Breakfast at Tiffany's," although Posey will suffer in comparison to Audrey Hepburn. But the two are definitely soul sisters and Posey's performance certainly elevates this film.
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