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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--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.
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| Production Status: |
Released |
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| Genres: |
Drama and Biopic |
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| Running Time: |
1 hr. 43 min. |
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| MPAA Rating: |
R |
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| Distributors: |
Orion Pictures
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| Production Co.: |
BBC Arena
Playhouse International Pictures
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| U.S. Box Office: |
$1,798,974 |
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| Filming Locations: |
New York, New York, USA
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| Produced in: |
United States |
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