Girls Town

First-time feature director Jim McKay's rambling, unfocused slice of faux verite seems intended as an alternative to prevailing Hollywood fantasies about female teens, but fails to live up to its aspirations. Patti (Lili Taylor), Angela (Bruklin Harris) and Emma (Anna Grace) are friends forced to examine and confront some harsh realities in the wake of a friend's seemingly inexplicable suicide. Beautiful, intelligent, ambitious Nikki (Aunjanue Ellis) had everything -- including memories of a brutal rape she kept hidden from even her closest friends. After reading of the incident in Nikki's journal, the girls visit reckless revenge on all the men who've done them wr...