Factory Girl

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DVD Details

  • Rated: Unrated
  • Run Time: 1 hours, 39 minutes
  • Video: Color
  • Encoding: Region 1 (USA & Canada)
  • Released: July 17, 2007
  • Originally Released: 2007
  • Label: Weinstein

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AUDIENCE SCORE
User Ratings: 77,180
[Sienna Miller] looks so much like the actual Edie Sedgwick that you may think, at moments, that you're seeing the real thing. -- Grade: B-
Entertainment Weekly
Feb 16, 2007
One wonders whether the documentary format would have better served the material than this ill-focused drama. Since real-life family and observers chime in over the end credits, perhaps the filmmakers were thinking the same thing. Full Review
Time Out
Mar 14, 2007
Far less insight than the flattest of E! True Hollywood Story segments Full Review
CinePassion
Aug 28, 2009
Edie Sedgwick's story is sad, but never appears important or interesting. Full Review
Guardian
Mar 16, 2007
Rating: 2/5 -- True story of drugs and sex is for adults only. Full Review
Common Sense Media
Oct 22, 2007
Rating: B- -- Captain Mauzner's screenplay never really gives much insight into Sedgwick as a person, leaving more questions about the person than answers. Still, Factory Girl is worth a look if only to see Miller and Pearce. Full Review
Bowling Green Daily News
Nov 21, 2019
Rating: 2/5 -- There's no real need for Factory Girl; just go pick up that copy of Heat.
Little White Lies
Mar 16, 2007

Product Description:

Best known for playing muse to Andy Warhol, Edie Sedgwick was a dazzling young socialite who found herself at the apex of the pop art scene in 1960s New York. In FACTORY GIRL, Sienna Miller is the enchanting, enigmatic Edie, offering a moving characterization of the extremely troubled model/actress. The film kicks off as Edie, the daughter of a well-to-do horse rancher, leaves art school and moves to Manhattan in the mid-'60s. Her friend Chuck Wein (Jimmy Fallon) introduces her to Andy Warhol (Guy Pearce), and Andy is immediately taken with the waifish, wealthy Edie. He welcomes her into his Factory, the silver aluminum-foil covered loft where an assortment of artists and oddballs assisted him with his projects. Edie quickly falls into the hard partying, drug-addled scene, starring in Andy's experimental films and becoming his constant companion. She becomes well-known for her unique style, and the fashion industry taps her as its very first "It" girl. Edie is flying high on Andy, speed, and stardom, when she happens to meet the Bob Dylan-esque "Folksinger" (Hayden Christensen). She falls in love with him, and in doing so, falls out of Andy's favor. Her drug addiction spirals out of control, her parents cut off her cash flow, and her very bright star seems to burn out almost as quickly as it rose.

As with most biopics, people are sure to quibble over the accuracy of FACTORY GIRL, and whether it offers fair portrayals of so many larger-than-life cultural icons. However, viewers are sure to agree that it makes a poignant statement about the pitfalls of fame. When Warhol tells Edie's mother that her daughter is going to be "super famous", Mrs. Sedgwick coldly responds: "And what exactly would be the value of that'" Judging from the very tragic, short life of Edie, there wasn't much value in it at all.

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