Who's in It: Sienna Miller, Guy Pearce, Hayden Christensen, Jimmy Fallon, Meredith Ostrom, Beth Grant, Edward Herrmann, Mena Suvari
The Basics: Want to know all about Edie Sedgwick, the queen of Andy Warhol's pack of wild superstars who all hung out, did drugs and made crazy movies at The Factory in the 1960s? Then you should maybe read a book about her because this movie is dopey.
What's the Deal? In fact, it's so scattered and borderline incoherent that you'd think the ghost of Sedgwick, hopped up on speed, made it herself. The high points all get hit: child of mentally ill and abusive but superrich old-money WASPs, beautiful and screwed up herself, involved with freaky artist types and hangers-on, attention-and-love-starved, high all the time and doomed to the inevitable downward spiral. You just never know exactly why. Or who stood by and didn't lift a finger.
No, Really, He's a Composite: You see Sedgwick get involved with a famous folk singer who is, according to the filmmakers, a combination of several men, but who wears the same clothes and the same famous harmonica-brace as an acclaimed singer-songwriter whose name rhymes with Zob Zylan. This singer is played by Christensen, who's even trying to do the same speech pattern and tone of voice as the famous singer whose name rhymes with Zob Zylan. Legal troubles are already brewing as I write this, mostly because the movie treats their love affair as fact (dumb sex scene and all), when it's still pretty debatable as to how involved they ever really were.
Be Shocked Most By: How good Pearce is as Andy Warhol even though the movie sucks. And how bad Illeana Douglas is as famous Vogue editor Diana Vreeland in her one scene (no one can even be bothered to pronounce the historical figure's name correctly — it was Dee-anna, not Die-anna). And how totally absent credited co-star Mary-Kate Olsen is. You barely see her standing in the background of one shot. Whatever screen time she got was chopped out completely.