Girls Will Be Girls

Girls Will Be Girls (2002)

  • 58% of critics liked it
    (31 reviews)

  • 70% of users liked it
    (6,377 ratings)

The confessional, behind-the-scenes showbiz melodrama goes under the knife -- so to speak -- in this drag comedy. Girls Will Be Girls casts three male performers in the roles of Evie Harris (Jack Plotnick), a has-been starlet of the '70s who has since gone to seed in her decaying Hollywood home;… More

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R,
Directed By
Written By
Richard Day
Genres
Drama, Romance, Gay & Lesbian, Comedy
In Theaters
Jan 17, 2003 Wide
IFC Films

Critic Reviews

  • John Monaghan, Detroit Free Press

    An often hilarious, always surprising 79-minute burlesque.

  • Robert K. Elder, Chicago Tribune

    While Day doesn't succeed in making us empathize with anyone on screen, he makes his characters definitely watchable and his dialogue crackles.

  • Wesley Morris, Boston Globe

    An unprecedented exercise in derangement.

  • Michael O'Sullivan, Washington Post

    Humor that takes as its apparent premise the assumption that all women are catty, sexually voracious, weight-obsessed whores ... is more than anyone in this day and age, even in the context of a cartoonish farce, should be expected to take.

  • Charles Ealy, Dallas Morning News

    Girls Will Be Girls is gross-out camp, much like the movies of John Waters.

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  • Thomas J


    The one liners in this movie are the BEST!!!

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