Movie Info

A portrait of Valerie Solanas--the woman who gunned down Andy Warhol and almost killed him. The film is also a paean to Warhol--the true king of pop--...(read more...) and the world which he created around him in the late 1960s. Using the disturbed, but frequently brilliant, visionary-feminist Solanas as her focal point (Solanas was the founder and sole member of SCUM, the Society for Cutting Up Men), filmmaker Mary Harron paints a vividly realistic picture of the subculture that surrounded Warhol and his infamous studio, the Factory. Despite her desperate circumstances, there''s a feisty vibrancy to Solanas. She''s a game, dead-end kid who bristles with the kind of knowing toughness that can turn a pervert''s solicitation into an opportunity. And when standard panhandling lines fail her, she offers her services as a scintillating conversationalist--for pay. Even when she subsequently spirals into a world dominated by paranoid delusions, her intelligence and wit shine through.

Director: Mary Harron

MPAA: R

Running Time: 1 hr. 40 min.

Release Date: May 17, 1996

Cast: Anna Levine, Donovan Leitch, Jared Harris, Jill Hennessy, Lili Taylor, Lothaire Bluteau, Martha Plimpton, Michael Imperioli, Peter Friedman, Reg Rogers, Stephen Dorff, Tahnee Welch