Factory Girl (Sienna Miller, Guy Pearce, Hayden Christensen, Jimmy Fallon) – Edie Sedgwick (Sienna Miller) is a young, “old money” free spirit seeking fame, fortune and art in New York. She meets and befriends Andy Warhol circa 1964-65 in Warhol’s movie period. He promises to make her a movie star (Poor Little Rich Girl), beautiful and sensual as she is. Her grip on reality slips away as she falls deeper and deeper under his spell and into the open world of Warhol’s “factory.” The factory is his studio, replete with characters of odd charm, no inhibitions, drugs galore, and total craziness. The attraction of this Radcliffe drop-out and the pill-popping Pittsburgh-born artistic genius is both undeniable and unhealthy, but it provides a fascinating background for the movie. They’re all dysfunctional. She burns likes a larger-than-life nova while he creates a surrealistic world of sex, drugs, art, and music. This is a world unknown either to mere mortals or the artistically challenged. On the one hand, it’s high society (her parents are rich and so is Andy and his friends) while, on the other hand, it’s very earthy and bourgeois (think Paris in the 1930s Henry Miller/Anais Nin era). But the world evaporates. She overdoses and dies at 28 while his popularity skyrockets. A box-office flop ($1.6 million gross on a $7 million production), Factory Girl is too odd and artsy for today’s pop culture audience and not compelling enough for the indie crowd that is attracted to movies like Capote. While the movie is titled for Edie’s character, the compelling character here is Warhol, played by the rarely-seen, but talented, Guy Pearce (Memento, L.A. Confidential). This is not a bad movie; it’s just not for casual viewing.