Party Girl

In the role that launched her career, Parker Posey plays Mary, an eccentric party girl arrested for organizing an illegal rave. To pay her bail, she turns to her godmother, who forces her to work as a librarian. In this effervescent comedy, Daisy von Scherler Mayer celebrates freedom and reinvention, portraying a vibrant New York that welcomes club kids, drag queens, and all those who live outside the mainstream. Rediscovered in recent decades, Party Girl has become an aesthetic reference for countless filmmakers and is now prized for its irreverent humor and its delightfully imperfect protagonist.