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Marie Claire
Marie Claire
Lifestyle
Sadie Bell

'Party Girl' Embraced the "Unlikable Female Lead" 30 Years Before It Became a Hollywood Trend

A collage of stills from the movie party girl starring parker posey against a backdrop of a manhattan bridge.

Parker Posey bursts onto the screen in the 1995 film Party Girl like the queen of the downtown scene. Dressed in a red satin Vivienne Westwood corset and bedazzled hot pants, her character Mary is being escorted out of her Lower East Side apartment by two police officers for throwing a rave. She's nonchalant, flippant, and absolutely fabulous.

But she’s also obnoxious.

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