This is exactly what making friends at uni and keeping up with some and running into others is like, as usual just an amazing Mike Leigh portrayal of times of our lives.

I love this movie so much that I street viewed all the movie locations. Its a beautiful and honest portrait of what it was like being a student in the 90s and the oddball characters life throws at you.

Odd, but very English. It has its 90s moments, but I don't think I need to see it again.

Career Girls is a decent film. It is about two women reunite and rekindle their friendship after graduating college. Katrin Cartlidge and Lynda Steadman give okay performances. The script is a little slow. Mike Leigh did an alright job directing this movie. I liked this motion picture because of the drama.

The late Katrin Cartlidge plays a very major role in bringing what appears to be a character study of two old college friends attempting to reconnect to be a very sharp and observant commentary on human nature.

very, very funny and yet, poignant too. great performances from the two actresses playing the protagonists. very bittersweet, brilliant actually. not sure it'd be appreciated by younger (read: 20s) females , or dudes. a rather "reminisce about the days,reflect about life" kinda movie.

I'm a big fan of Mike Leigh's dramas, and although there were bits that I didn't appreciate much, such as that weird, rambling Ricky, I really enjoyed a lot of it. I preferred the girls as mature women in the current day to their younger selves in the Eighties.

Just didn't get where the entertainment value was supposed to come from with this! It follows a couple of girls as they reunite after their uni days, rekindling the memories of their times together, and encountering numerous familiar faces from their past. It just had the feel of a documentary as opposed to a comedy and the concept was just a bit dull. Nothing wrong with the acting as this was portrayed pretty well, but this doesn't make a film alone. I'm surprised by the reviews this has got, and the high praise it has received from critics and the general audiences who've endured it, as I was literally falling asleep through parts of this (maybe I missed the good bits). It's very difficult to relate to as although I've been to uni, only life inside the house was depicted in the movie, and having never been part of an all-girl house it's not something I can understand. I just couldn't sit through this one again as I wasn't engrossed at any point, only impressed by the strength of the actors portrayal of slightly simple personalities. I can see why I'd never heard of this film before, and part of me wishes I'd not been nosey and found this amongst my mothers DVD collection. The other part of me is reflective in realising that I now that my mother and me have very opposing tastes, and I won't be keen to try any more of her cinematic favourites!

Another fine cracker from Mike Leigh

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Such a cunning little altruistic parasite this guy [Leigh] is. I start the film saying to myself: "The music is awful, the characters are way over the top - no way I'm gonna like this." But damn if he doesn't find a way to make me eat my words.

When a movie's only problem is being too realistic you have a winner on your hands. The characters lives' don't change overnight, there isn't a big happy ending and the outlook is somewhat bleak. Mike Leigh has a true slice of life picture on his hands here.

Really funny, really moving and great performances! Loved it! xc

Another dependable from Mike Leigh. His characters are never fully real, in that they are charicatures of real people in real situations. They are always recognizable as are the very ordinary lives in which they live. Leighs gift is that he is able to use his over the top characters and his very affectionate humour to tug at the humanity within us and bring out our empathy. This is a story of friendship, how it survives over time even when people change dramatically and how some people fall by the wayside and don't fair so well. Such is life and Mike Leigh does life in a very tender and funny way.

I continue to enjoy my run through Mike Leigh's films. This one's use of flashback is particularly effective, as is Katrin Catlidge's performance (didn't realise she had passed away; very sad). Lynda Steadman, on the other hand, is a bit too mechanical and forced. As par for the course in Leigh's films, there's no plot, but you still get the requisite climactic scene, which is quite sobering in this instance. Quite a good film.

What a nice movie...a simple story with great performances and direction...watch it

Another fine cracker from Mike Leigh

This has become a favorite. The leads are fantastic, amazing to watch and the comparison of the younger and older characters is just right. Some rough scenes where people aren't nice to each other, but ultimately a very affirming movie about the power of friendship and growing into ones self.

Felt like the girls version of the 80's film Diner.

Two former university roommates reunite six years after graduation. Their professional visages and professional demeanors indicate that they have overcome the uncertainties, insecurities and emotional hurdles of youth. Both are now confident professionals who have reinvented themselves. They have metamorphosed from unworldly, naive, socially and romantically inexperienced schoolgirls into very together young women. Or have they? As the pair rekindle their relationship and reminisce about college days, ghosts from the past are unleashed. The spirits from bygone college days seem to beckon to the old closeted skeletons that were once locked away, but never confronted or reckoned with. As the girls metaphorically unpack their bags for the weekend reunion, both are forced to brave the issues that emerge from emotional baggage they still carry, but which neither has cared to acknowledge. Career Girls manages to slash away our veneers and force us to examine the shaky framework underneath in a way that is vaguely reminiscent of The Boys in the Band, <div style="width:320px;"><a href="http://www.flixster.com/photos/career-girls-1997-12879921"><img src="http://content7.flixster.com/photo/12/87/99/12879921_ori.jpg" border="0"/></a><div style="text-align:center;font-size:10px;"><a href="http://www.flixster.com">Flixster</a> - Share Movies</div></div> Career Girls is similar to the more cynical and socially indicting, The Vanities by Jack Heifner (stage production, NOT the musical). The Vanities is a comedy-drama centering on the lives and friendship of three Texas cheerleaders starting from high school. It charts the course of their friendship as well as each girl's individual development as influenced by popular culture, myths and stereotypes. Flashbacks reveal the evolution of their attitudes, misconceptions and social maturation. We see in a satirical and poignant way how life experience shatters the myths, challenges the stereotypes, and re-molds their characters from being naive cheerleaders to becoming rebellious, cynical, and oh-so worldly. The Vanities provides a humorous parable about how we progress to become 'older and wiser.' It builds on issues and observations that are ubiquitous enough for us to see ourselves in a way that makes us laugh at times, wince and bite our lips at others. The Vanities saw one of the longest Off-Broadway runs on record., The non-linear plot device of using flashbacks in Career Girls produces the same effect. It both charts and silhouettes the girls' journey from 'there' to 'here.' Career Girls traverses a briefer time period than The Vanities, from college to six years after. The focus is on relationships rather than character, what becomes of relationships, what effect they have on the girls, and how and where the outcomes have steered their lives and psyches. Whereas The Vanities makes us laugh, scoff, and cringe, Career Girls makes us laugh, cry and reflect. The ending to Career Girls, is less cynical than that of The Vanities, but no less devastating. It is poignant, but also sad to the point of being upsetting. It compels us to ponder many of life's more emotional 'what might have been's, in a disturbingly personal way. Movie trailer at: http://www.videodetective.com/titledetails.aspx?PublishedID=7130http://www.videodetective.com/titledetails.aspx?PublishedID=7130