Factory Girl

Edie Sedgwick was a so-called "It" Girl in the '60s, which means she was famous and no one in the world could point to a thing she'd done in her life. She's like Paris Hilton. She's an heiress and aspiring model and the press follows her, and Sedgwick also tries to get into the movie business; Paris, too, has made some films. The problem with this movie isn't the main actors -- Sienna Miller and Guy Pearce -- but rather that they portray people who are not that likeable. However, casting Hayden Christiensen as "Billy," aka Bob Dylan, the love interest, was a mistake. But casting him in anything is a mistake.

"Factory Girl" is way too fawning about Sedgwick and Andy Warhol and everyone else at the Factory, which was the place where they hung out and made terrible movies and not much else. It's full of lines like, "You're a superstar," and "You've got the whole world on a string." There's a difference between saying it and showing it. And there's no sense of irony here, no critique of a culture that would make people like this famous. The movie does show a downside to Sedgwick's life, but it's that she got into drugs and died too young, not that she didn't do anything with her life. As if the movie doesn't go over the top in making Sedgwick so glamorous, the credits even feature interviews with real people who knew her and talk about what a wonderful person she was -- it's unwatchable.