Movie Info
Genre
DramaRelease Date
December 29, 2006 (NY, LA)MPAA Rating
RStudio
The Weinsteins Co.Official Site
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Cast and Crew
Director
George HickenlooperProducer
Richard Galub, Holly WiersmaScreenwriter
Captain MauznerStarring
- Sienna Miller as Edie Sedgwick
- Hayden Christensen as Musician
- Guy Pearce
- Mena Suvari as Richie Berlin
- Jimmy Fallon as Chuck Wein
- Gavin Rossdale
- Peter Bogdanovich
- Meredith Ostrom
Movie Story
"Factory Girl" imaginatively unfolds the comet-like rise and fall of 60s "it girl" Edie Sedgwick, the blazing superstar who came to define both the glamour and the tragedy of our celebrity-obsessed culture. Sedgwick appeared to be the quintessential American princess, with her blue blood, her trust fund and her Harvard education, not to mention her ethereal beauty and vivacious charisma. But she was also a lost and fragile little girl; and when she met up with counter-culture anti-hero Andy Warhol, everything changed. Suddenly, Edie found herself at the center of a Pop Art universe bursting with sex, drugs, style and rock 'n' roll -- and a mad rush for fame and fabulousness that was destined to spin out of control.
Arriving into the chaos of mid-60s New York, Edie (Sienna Miller) is taken under the wing of the famously deadpan artist Andy Warhol (Guy Pearce) who sees in her untamed vulnerability the makings of an irresistible muse. Warhol invites Edie into the wild world of The Factory, a former downtown hat factory he has transformed into a bohemian paradise. Here, a rag-tag mix of musicians, poets, artists, actors and misfits gather to create avant-garde movies during the day and throw glam parties all night long. Edie quickly ascends to become the star of Warhol's movies, an idol at The Factory and a media darling. She is on top of the world when she falls in love with a larger-than-life rock star (Hayden Christensen), the man known as "the voice of a generation." But when Edie becomes caught between Warhol's world of sexy surfaces and her new love, she winds up rejected by both - and once again, set adrift in the modern world.
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Reader's Reviews
It was a great sixties movie. A lot like Almost Famous. The movie as a whole was quite entertaining, but the performances were a little disapointing, in my opinion.
posted by Holly on Jan 20, 2007