Girls Will Be Girls
Girls Will Be Girls
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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 H her best friend and domestic servant, Coco (Clinton Leupp); and Varla (Jeffrey Roberson), the daughter of a deceased peer/rival of Evie's who shows up to rent out a room in her home. The tension among the trio of women escalates as Evie prepares for a pull-out-all-the-stops television special commemorating her past career glories, which include sundry disaster movies and TV variety shows. What Evie doesn't know is that the na&ve-seeming Varla has a debt to settle for her deceased mom, and will stop at nothing to seek vengeance. All three lead actors developed their characters in stage sh writer/director Richard Day wrote for such television shows as Ellen and The Larry Sanders Show before helming this film, his debut. After its 2003 Sundance premiere, Girls Will Be Girls was acquired by IFC Films for a theatrical release.
Evie (Jack Plotnick), an aging actress in the twi-dark of her career, drinks her way through the day, longing to jump-start her career and any man in the vicinity. Her roommate and verbal punching bag, Coco (Clinton Leupp), only yearns for one thing: to have a child with the doctor that performed her abortion. When Varla (Jeffery Roberson), a country girl with a bit of an eating disorder and her own dreams of making it as an actress, joins the household, their aspirations and sordid pasts come to an unforgettable boiling point.
JACK PLOTNICK
CLINTON LEUPP
Varla/Marla
JEFFERY ROBERSON
RON MATHEWS
Dr. Benson
ERIC STONESTREET
HAMILTON VON WATTS
DANA GOULD
Dr. Perfect
CHAD LINDSEY
Asteroid Actor
GREG WHITNEY
Speci-mercial Director
DENNIS HENSLEY
SAM PANCAKE
Young Stevie
JAMIE MALONE
Young Varla
LURIE POSTEN
MIKE STOYANOV
JAY FUENTES
Burn Victim
RICH AHREN
Diner Waiter
MARK CIRILLO
Receptionist
KRIS ANDERRSON
Guy on Street
EDWARD TUNNEY
CLIFF CURRY
NATHAN LePAGE
MICHAEL WARWICK
CHRIS ISAACSON
Whore at Restaurant
John at Restaurant
RICHARD DAY
John in Alley
MORT KESSLER
AARON EMMETT
Announcer Voices
Magazine Cover Cher
GINGER SNAPS
Magazine Cover Madonna
RAPHAEL LOUIS MARINO
First Assistant Director
JENNIFER LAI
Second Assistant Director
MATTHEW OSBURN
Script Supervisor
TRACY LYNN SCOTT
Video and Sound Mixer
DAN ZIMBALDI
Camera Assistant
DAVID MARKS
Audio/Video Technician
DAVID KITZ
EDWARD TUNNEY
Boom Operator
ROBERT BACKUS
BUCK ROGERS
JODY HUTCHINS
JOHN RUTTER
Art Directors
GABRIELLE NIETO
BRANDI HUGO
Property Master
STEPHANIE ROBINSON
Set Painter
EBLIN SIFUENTES
Art Department PA
MIKE GUIMARY
Artwork Provided by
Key Make-up and Hair
ADAM CHRISTOPHER
Special Effects Make-up
SERGIO PICASSO
KEN NIEDERBAUMER
Prosthetics
JEFFERY COLBERT
Additional Make-Up Artist
KARI SLOBOM
Evie's Wardrobe Consultant
BRANDT HUSEBY
Evie&s Wig Cap
PERI SOREL
Coco's Wardrobe
GREGG COOK
CHRIS NEWLANDER
KAT THOMPSON
RENEE BARDOT
Varla&s Wardrobe
PHILIP HECKMAN
RAMONA PONCE
Varla&s Wigs
GERARD KELLY
STANLEY TINES
Set Costumer
STACY STAGNARO
Production Consultant
ANDREW COLON
Key Production Assistant
CHRIS BUNKER
Production Assistants,
Interns, and Painters
PETER BINNINGS
JEN BURKLEY
MARCO CORREA
NATALIA HENDERSON
JEREMY HILT
BRAD JIMINEZ
ISAAC KLOTZ
DAVID KOLODNY-NAGY
ROB NOWICK
Still Photographer
JILLIAN McALLEY
Evie Photos by&
BILL SANTORO&
Graphic Artist
CLIFF CURRY
HD Camera Equipment
ELLIOT PORTER, BIG ZIG VIDEO
Location Representative
ARMANDO BOQUIREN, EIDC
DICK BARRY, MIB, INC.
SAG Representative
KAREN BORELL
Studio Teacher
JAN CITRON
Set Rentals
OMEGA CINEMA PROPS
Flat Rentals
Bill at COMPANY, INC
Walkie Rentals
Background Casting
ALL LOCATIONS CASTING
UNLIMITED CASTING, INC.
Extras Wrangler
ALISHA SPIVAK
Production Business Manager
MORT KESSLER
Production Accountant
BETH GOTHRICK
Craft Service
ILONA SZABO
FLERI VELASQUEZ
SUZANNE W. ZADASpecial Thanks to
MARC WARE & BOB NUNES
MARIA SEMPLE
MELISSA PAPP GREEN
MARC ALLEN
THE SILVER SPOON RESTAURANT
&Girls Will Be Girls&
&I Need You&
&Look at Me&
&Dream Lover&
Music and Lyrics by Steve Edwards
Performances by
Jack Plotnick, Clinton Leupp, & Jeffery Roberson
Courtesy Sixfeetfive Music
Mixed by Steve Shepherd at Extreme Mixing Studios
&&Work Me to the Bone&
Music by Dewayne Satterfield
Published by Source in Sync Music
Provided by 5 Alarm Music
&&Championship Banner Logo&
&Figaro Flourish&
&Pixie Dust Announcement&
Composed by Hiram Bronklestein
Published by Source in Sync Music
Provided by 5 Alarm Music
&&You Cast an Elevator&
&Kennies Pennies&
Composed by Homer Greencastle
Published by Source in Sync Music
Provided by 5 Alarm Music
&&Flying High&
&Fighting Rap&
&Chance on Love&
Music and Lyrics by Danny Camaro
Published by Source in Sync Music
Provided by 5 Alarm Music
&&Piz Staccato&
&Flowing Waters&
&Monster Mayhem&
&Ultimate Hollywood&
&Piano Waves&
&A Touch of Heart&
&Oboe Soliloquy&
Performed by The City of Prague Philharmonic
Music by Steven James Edwards
Published by Source in Sync Music
Provided by 5 Alarm Music
Filmed Entirely in
LOS ANGELES, CA USA
Cameras by
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NO ANIMALS OR WOMEN WERE INJURED IN THE MAKING OF THIS FILM
THE PERSONS AND EVENTS IN THIS FILM ARE FICTITIOUS. ANY SIMILARITY TO ACTUAL PERSONS OR EVENTS IS UNINTENTIONAL. THIS MOTION PICTURE IS PROTECTED UNDER THE LAWS OF THE UNITED STATES AND OTHER COUNTRIES. ANY UNAUTHORIZED EXHIBITION, DISTRIBUTION OR REPRODUCTION OF THE MOTION PICTURE OR VIDEO TAPE OR ANY PART THEREOF INCLUDING THE SOUNDTRACK MAY RESULT IN SEVERE CIVIL AND CRIMINAL PENALTIES.
AN SRO PICTURES PRODUCTION
MICHAEL WARWICK
Artwork / Design
NEW WAVE ENTERTAINMENT
JACOB ELLIS
Photographs
JILLIAN McALLEY
A campy and catty blend of melodrama and comedy
Author: johnnysugar from Minneapolis, MN
15 December 2003
Like the love child of &Absolutely Fabulous& and every novel Jacqueline Susann's ever written, &Girls Will Be Girls& is an 80-minute festival of campy trash, hilarious one-liners, and bitchy, catty women. The only catch this time is that the women are all played by men.
Evie (Jack Plotnick) is a washed-up B-movie actress who is decidedly not aging gracefully. She lives with Coco (Clinton Leupp), her more grounded friend who functions mainly as Evie's maid and abuse magnet. Into their lives walks their new roommate Varla (Jeffery Roberson), an aspiring starlet whose late mother Marla (also Roberson in flashbacks) was also Evie's most hated acting rival. All of them have dreams, of course. Evie's dreams involve drinking as many martinis as she can and then having plenty of sex with anyone available. Coco still pines for the hunky abortion doctor that operated on her many years ago. Varla hopes to become the actress that her mother couldn't while dealing with the advances of Evie's gorgeous but microscopically-endowed son Stevie (Ron Mathews). Of course, there are hidden motives galore, and more than one mean-spirited one-liner.
The gimmick of this film, that all the women are played by men, is never as overstated as you may think. After all, the characters are all female, and they are treated in the story as if they are female. It's only slightly different than young boys performing the female roles in Shakespeare's plays. The camp value of the movie focuses not on the drag spectacle, but on the unrelenting melodrama and silliness of the plot, taking the elements of ridiculous films like &Valley Of The Dolls& and upping them to a level so ludicrous, they can only be considered comedy. That the framework of the film makes all of these developments seem perfectly natural and realistic is a credit to director and writer Richard Day.
The actors are all quite game and in on the absurdity of their surroundings. Plotnick is quite humorous, dropping the most mean-spirited one-liners you'll ever laugh at, and the clips of Evie performing in the 60's stinker &Asteroid& resemble nothing less than Morgan Fairchild on quaaludes. Leupp reprises the role of Coco from his scene-stealing moments in the movie &Trick&, and he imbues the character both with a humorous sense of bad luck and an immediately sympathetic personality. Roberson is not quite as spectacular as his co-stars, but he gives the naive, trusting Varla a great heart and a hilarious scene involving opera and cheese in a can. Even Mathews is great, all melodramatic soap hunk and hair product. Noticed that a number of tight fitting
get a lot of attention - wondering if there was a placement fee involved since there is no real reason for them. Coco does reference both Robin and The Joker in a couple of stale jokes, but the context makes them hilarious.
While the movie receives high marks for style, including efficient and effective set design and a very nice score, it's a very loud movie in the sense that every scene is turned up to 11. While this works most of the time, even at the film's short running time, it tends to strain. The ending veers sharply away from comedy into deep melodramatic territory, and even though it is diffused quite handily, the film almost drowns in TV-movie-of-the-week sap before the mood lightens again. Also, some may find the hostile attitudes of some of the characters, mainly Evie and to a degree Coco, to be too off-putting for comfort. Evie, especially, is one of the most unsympathetic characters you'll meet in a film this year.
Regardless, the film is hilarious and immensely entertaining. A high recommendation for anyone who likes divas, camp, or catty fun. And don't forget to bring the cheese. 8 out of 10.视频地址复制
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