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Party Monster
Based on a true story, the movie follows Michael Alig (Macaulay Culkin) who arrives on a Greyhound bus in New York City desperate to leave his boring Midwestern past behind. Soon his life is sent spiraling down when he brags on television about killing his drug dealer and roommate.
25 January 1975, Toronto, Ontario, Canada
17 April 1977, Gainesville, Georgia, USA
9 May 1978, Bensonhurst, Brooklyn, New York, USA
27 August 1955, Savannah, Georgia, USA
27 December 1973, Brooklyn, New York, USA
5 January 1969, Canton, Ohio, USA
19 August 1963, Cypress, California, USA
26 August 1980, New York City, New York, USA
26 October 1961, Waterbury, Connecticut, USA
1975, New Jersey, USA
6 April 1980, Denver, Colorado, USA
March 30, 2004
Rule No. 1: If you use black humor in a film about real-life characters and events, make sure you have a feel for it first.January 22, 2004
So awful, it's almost good.November 14, 2003
We begin the film not knowing what brought Michael and James together. We end, after a too-long 98 minutes, precisely the same way.December 15, 2003
Perhaps Party Monster's limited distribution will keep this clunker from interrupting Seth Green's rise to the top of the Hollywood food chain.November 06, 2003
You haven't seen this many outrageous costumes since the Halloween parade on Cedar Springs.December 05, 2003
A mess.October 24, 2003
There are many ways of depicting an innocent's descent into hell, but the camp approach is surely the least advisable.November 07, 2003
In the end, for all the vibrancy, there's not much there there. Maybe that's the point, but I doubt it.February 02, 2004
Culkin se esforça, mas não convence como o bissexual Michael Alig. Em contrapartida, Seth Green rouba o filme com sua ótima performance.December 05, 2003
Memo to Macaulay Culkin: When your latest cinematic 'comeback' attempt is a film like Party Monster, maybe remaining in career limbo wasn't such a bad idea.December 12, 2003
It's the drunk-guy- at-the-party syndrome: The only one truly entertained by the clown with the lamp shade on his head is the clown with the lamp shade on his head -- or folks similarly inebriated.January 22, 2004
Never has the Manhattan club scene ever looked so tedious; this film makes a powerful argument for staying home and renting a movie.