Overrated and overhyped

I'll tell you why so serious

A waste of 90 minutes of my life

This is a must-see and one of the best documentaries - and films - of this year.

Awesome film. A coming-of-age film that contains a very realistic depiction of urban life and growing up in a big city. In it, 3 straight teenage girls (Patti, Angela and Emma) lose their friend Nikki, who mysteriously kills herself. Eager to find out why she did that, they manage to retrieve a journal from her home, and they soon find out that their friend committed suicide because she had been raped while she was doing an internship at a magazine company. Then the 3 girls start talking to each other about the things that have recently been going on in their lives. They soon find out that they too have been/are being forced into sex by the men they've been with (or are being with). They start writing some "Subvert the patriarchy!" graffiti on their school's bathroom doors, and start making plans to take revenge on all the men that have treated/are treating them like s***.A wonderful scene is when they all wreck the car of the guy who'd raped Emma. She'd been raped at the back of his car so this was all so powerfully symbolic to take revenge that way. I couldn't stop laughing when the three girls trash the car. :D Patti's boyfriend is very violent towards her, and they also had some awesome plans to deal with him too, which ultimately will lead to them making plans against the rapist who was at least partly responsible for Nikki's death. Great film. There aren't many films like this in which poor working-class women unite together (across race divisions) and try hard to deal with a misogynistic, racist patriarchal society. The way they start feeling the harsh symptoms of it is telling.I loved the Audre Lorde quote ("The fact that we are here and that I speak these words is an attempt to break that silence and bridge some of those differences between us, for it is not difference which immobilizes us, but silence. And there are so many silences to be broken.") near the end, suggesting that the three teenage girls have been researching into feminism, quoting from a black lesbian feminist of the Second Wave. The 1990's female rap music enhances the film. I think there might have been more female rap artists in the 90's, before all the sexist hip hop took over.The only downside is that the film was a tad bit slow at one point, and some scenes could have been replaced with others, better ones.

This is a film that starts out being about one thing and then ignores that and becomes about nothing! Film starts out with a group of high school friends and suddenly one of them commits suicide. After a few weak attempts at trying to figure out why their friend would do such a thing the film goes into another direction of abusive boyfriends and bickering among themselves. These girls have so much attitude that it becomes impossible to feel any sympathy for them. Then at the end of the film they put in some unbelievable plot device to answer the question for the friends suicide. Totally contrived. The only thing worth watching is Lili Taylor as she shows us once again she can play just about any type of character. Here she plays a dumb white girl that grew up in a black neighborhood and inherited all the urban problems. But the script needed a rewrite badly and director Jim McKay and Taylor who help write this film need more of a focus point to the story. This film just stumbles about aimlessly!

This movie is one of the best i've seen. Dramatic and heart-breakingly funny. 'Girls Town' is the tale of three teenagers girls from the wrong side of town, there's Nikki, who has the cahnce to attend at Princeton, Patti a single teen mother, Angela who has to deal with an overbearing mother and Emma who has the problem of dealing with over shallow boyfriends. But one day, out of the blue, Nikki doesn't turn up to school, she's killed her self. After the other girls steal her diary they find out that Nikki has been raped, thus the girls set out on a journey of self-discovery to make the men in their lifes that have hurt them, pay big time!.I feel for all the girls, being a teen my self, it made me think of how life is growing up, especially girls. A master piece of a movie for which Lili Taylor who plays Patti deserved an Oscar. Brilliant!

I'm a 62-year-old white male in Northern Michigan, and I liked this film. Rightly or wrongly, I felt that I was getting a good inside look at a culture that I have never brushed shoulders with. Lili Taylor, for a 30-year-old gal from Illinois, seems to have captured the spirit of Patti in a very convincing way, and her body language showed that she really had rapport with her friends. Under ordinary circumstances, I would not choose to watch a film about the subject of school kids in Brooklyn or Hackensack or wherever, but I liked these kids. It's a nice piece for older people to watch, and be entertained by people telling you things you probably didn't know. Rightly or wrongly. I'm not in a position to judge the authenticity of the cultural overview that the film presents. Warning to old fuddie-duddies: The F-word uccurs 31 times in a 51-second scene (Is this a new record?) so don't watch if the grand-kids are around!