Party Girl was boring

You had to be there, OP.

G-g-goodbye, OP

OP, you aren’t even fit to shine Natasha’s shoes!

Music selector is the soul reflector… soul reflectorrrrrrr.

I agree, OP, and I was there.

I’d like a falafel with hot sauce, a side order of baba ganoush, and a seltzer.

WHERE’S MY MOCKTAIL?!

Is this thread from 1995?

And imagine her breath, R6.

Loved it the first time I saw it, which was at The Angelika in summer 1995 pretty soon after its initial release. It was a lot of fun to watch with an audience that appreciated it as a love letter to downtown 1990s New York.

Watching it again over the years on tv, it is indeed a little dull in some parts. But I can’t help but love its nostalgia factor in showing very well that particular moment New York. AND, it’s always worth watching to the very end to see the deliciously cute stripper “cop” at her birthday party.

There is a certain low budget student film vibe to the production but the writing is very good and it’s one of very few mainstream films about underground 90s culture that feels fully authentic to the scene it portrays. All of the obscure dance records mentioned in the script and played on the soundtrack are 100% real and respectable

Parker’s character was a good composite riff on a sort of slightly second tier version of the best known real life downtown New York party girls from the mid 1980s to early 1990s, like Dianne Brill and Lisa Edelstein. Maybe with even a soupçon of Cornelia Guest thrown in there (although she wasn’t really “downtown”, of course).

They were wildly popular and out every night, but essentially “good girls” who mostly stayed on the fringes of the truly messy Club Kids scene and didn’t have the psychological issues and drug problems that were at the red hot center of all that craziness. I mean, for sure they all had a strong streak of narcissism driving the need for all that attention, but they were fun to be around and had a knack for making people feel special… as opposed to the hard core Club Kids who just wanted to shock and were pretty repellent to be around for more than a few minutes.

Here’s an interesting 1986 NYT profile on Lisa Edelstein. Her best friend at the time was James Clark who became James St. James and did later fall deeper into the dark side of New York nightlife than she did.

There were some Club Kids in ‘Party Girl’ like the green braided ‘It Twins’ as background characters, but I don’t really know how they rank on the Michael Alig scale of freaky.

It’s interesting that the actor who played Mustafa has no other credits on IMDB other than this film. One and done.

the party girl tv show -- ben stiller's wife -- creatively funded john cameron mitchell's 'hedwig'