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The swinging '60s, as seen through the narrow lens of New York City's underground creative community, are chronicled in this dynamic, occasionally pretentious, but always compulsively watchable indie film. It's the story of radical feminist Valerie Solanas (vibrantly played by Lili Taylor), whose search for someone to produce her subversive, antimale "manifesto" leads her to pop-art icon and counterculture guru Andy Warhol (Jared Harris). Solanas' abrasive personality and incessantly confrontational stance becomes too alienating even to the drugged-out misfits in Warhol's "Factory," and after she is excommunicated from the group, Solanas seeks revenge. Director Mary Harron re-creates the Factory milieu with commendable accuracy, capturing the pervasive hipper-than-thou mentality of Warhol and his sycophants. The film's red-meat sequences, pitting the agitated, hard-charging feminist against the meek, evasive artist, are positively riveting, thanks to the faultless performances of Taylor and Harris. The DVD release of I Shot Andy Warhol will find favor not only among those who fondly remember the '60s, but also among viewers born too late for that heady era. Ed Hulse

All Movie Guide

The true story of Valerie Solanas, the radical feminist who became notorious after shooting art world icon Andy Warhol, is portrayed in this fact-based drama. In an attempt to present a fair assessment of her actions, writer-director Mary Harron focuses on Solanas' troubled life, from her childhood as an abuse victim to her life as teenage prostitute in New York City. These experiences left Solanas (played by Lili Taylor) deeply scarred, contributing to a hatred of men that later found full flower in her famous "SCUM Manifesto," an extremist tract calling for the establishment of a "Society for Cutting Up Men." Deeply troubled, she nevertheless briefly finds hope after befriending young transvestite Candy Darling (played by Stephen Dorff) and discovering herself on the fringes of the wild, colorful world surrounding the eccentric Warhol. She becomes obsessed with the idea that Warhol's support could change her life, only to become violently enraged when the artist and his friends begin to turn away from her. Judd Blaise

Product Details

• UPC: 027616857699
• Source: MGM (VIDEO & DVD)
• Region Code: 1
• Aspect Ratio: Theatre Wide-Screen (1.85.1)
• Presentation: Wide Screen
• Sound: stereo
• Language: English, Español
• Subtitles: Français, Español
• Time: 1:43:00
• Sales Rank: 34,430

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