Girls Town

Opens Friday, January 17, 2025

The 4K restoration by IndieCollect was funded with support from the HFPA Trust, Donald A. Pels Charitable Trust, IndieCollect donors, and Fellow Citizen, Inc.

Mid-1990s, New York City. Patti, Angela, Emma and Nikki are high school seniors and best friends preparing for life beyond graduation. Their dreams for the future differ greatly – Angela wants to become a poet, Emma and Nikki have are heading for college, and Patti is a young mother looking for stability in her kid’s life – but the four bright, young women are steadfastly loyal to each other in a way only teenagers know how to be. Their lives are then completely upended when, after being sexually assaulted, Nikki unexpectedly commits suicide. Grieving, angry, and forced to return to daily life without satisfying recourse for their feelings, the girls must come of age with a newfound understanding about the patriarchal world in which they live.

• Country USA
• Year 1996
• Running Time 90 minutes
• Format 4K Restoration
• Distributor Film Movement
• Director Jim McKay
• Cast Lili Taylor, Bruklin Harris, Anna Grace, Aunjanue Ellis-Taylor, Guillermo Diaz, Michael Imperioli
• Accessibility Assistive Listening, T-Coil, Closed Captioning

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