Girls Town

When one of their friends commits suicide, three young women learn to stand up for themselves and strike back against male-dominated society in this drama. Patti (Lili Taylor), Emma (Anna Grace), Angela (Bruklin Harris), and Nikki (Aunjanue Ellis) are four teenage girls who attend the same high ...more

Despite a few loose ends, Jim McKay's first feature is a fresh, spontaneous film about the relationships between four high-school girls who have been abused by males in different ways. Developed in a series of improvisational workshops, with all of the principals receiving writing credit, the script pivots on the suicide of one of the group and the discovery by the others that she had been raped. Essentially a series of dialogue scenes among a group of friends hanging out talking, the film gives ...more