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Party Girl (1995) stars Parker Posey as a 24-year-old whose life revolves around the club scene in NYC in the ravin' nineties. Circumstances revealed in such repartee as "What's up, buttercup?" "The rent and I'm not paying!" soon lead her to reluctantly take on a position as a library clerk. While initially approaching her work in a zombie-like haze, the usually hungover young woman falls deeply in love during the film with two things:
1.) The Dewey Decimal System*
2.) A sweet Falafel salesmen from Lebanon
The movie is hilarious, has become a cult classic among librarians, and Posey's performance is a delight, esp. in those moments when she seems to be unconsciously channeling the spritely Katharine Hepburn of the '30s, before that actress decided to become a living legend. if you are not offended by satirical and candidly humorous references to sex, drugs and rock and roll you will enjoy this film enormously. FYI: the director, Daisy von Scherler Mayer, who has worked largely in television since this movie, is the granddaughter of screenwriter Edwin Justus Mayer, who was responsible for the scripts for such 30s & '40s gems as Merrily We Go To Hell, So Red the Rose, Peter Ibbetson, Desire, and To Be or Not To Be, (he was also an uncredited contributor to the GWTW script). I guess there is something to this genetics thing.
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*Despite the fact that Melvil Dewey, the creator of the system, conceived of it as appropriate work for "dumb women"--but at least he created a field of work for women at a time when there was almost no profession welcoming to them.