Girls Will Be Girls
Review by Joseph M. Davis for Reel Movie Critic
**
Cast
Jack Plotnick	Evie
Clinton Leupp	Coco
Jeffrey Roberson	Varla/Marla
Directed by Richard Day. A dark comedy. Rated R (for language, sexuality and drug content). Running time 79 minutes.

"Girls will be Girls" is a dark comedy about fame hungry women trying to make it in Hollywood, but it features male actors in each role. There are some funny moments scattered throughout the film and the acting is so well done that at times, with certain characters, you'll find yourself looking for an Adam's apple and scratching your head. The acting pins down nearly every nuance around the dramatic behavior that you would expect from these catty and competitive wannabe starlets. But the writing and directing, both under the control of Richard Day, fall short.

Clever and ironic dialogue is diluted with fart jokes on a regular basis. Day also fails to pull off some offensive twists in the plot involving one of the main characters, Coco (Clinton Leupp). She obsesses over Dr. Perfect (Chad Lindsey), who performed an abortion on her as a youth. She later goes to the extreme of having sex with every man in town so that she can have another abortion with Dr. Perfect, just to get his phone number. If that's not enough, one of her aborted fetuses comes to her in a dream, crawling into her bed.

Later, a doctor who slips her morphine rapes her while she's in the hospital. When she discovers that the rapist is actually Dr. Perfect, albeit much older and much fatter, she decides to marry him. If that's not disturbing enough we also have to watch her slowly cut off her little toe with a nail file, apparently due to the trauma from her rape. Not a pleasant sight and really not funny. And what might have become something creative and different emerges as a film that would be a side note at the Provincetown Film Festival at best.