Girls Will Be Girls

Girls Will Be Girls (2003) is one of the funniest, raunchiest movies I have seen in a long time. Set around the lives of three women trying to claw their way through the hierarchy of Hollywood fame, this comedy has everything from abortions, incontinence,

and prostitution to rape, drugs, and suicide. All of the female roles are played by men, which really adds to the hilarity and mayhem.

Evie (Jack Plotnick), a washed up actress with a penchant for self-indulgence, is living with her friend Coco (Clinton Leupp). When Evie rents a room to Varla (Jeffrey Robberson), tensions rise within the trio. Upon Varla's arrival, Coco greets her at the door with "Let me help you with your duffel bag...Oh, it's just your ass." It is soon discovered that Varla is the daughter of Evie's old rival Marla Simmonds, who committed suicide after the loss of her break through role. Evie gives her condolences to Varla by saying, "I'm sorry to hear your mother off'd herself...Oh I'm sorry, passed herself away." Evie steps up the competition with Varla, but when she asks her son Stevie (Ron Matthews) to help her get a role on television, he tells her that no one will hire her because of an episode in which she ran down a family of four. Evie corrects him, saying " It was a family of six. I only killed four, and who has a picnic in their own back yard?"

As Varla moves closer to her dream of becoming an actress, Evie jealously plots against her, and Coco's life takes a turn after she is drugged and raped in the hospital, leading her to rediscover the abortion doctor with whom she had fallen in love when she was young. All is shaken by Evie's selfish behavior and refusal to apologize for anything, until she comes to terms with the things she has done in a drugged out crazy spectacle on live television.

I have watched this film three times, and it never gets old. It is full of bawdy humor and spoofs from Sunset Boulevard, Mommie Dearest, and All about Eve. See this film for a great laugh. It is very well done!

Happy Endings,

Matthew