''The Girls' Room'' (alternate title ''Best of Enemies'') is a 2000 comedy-drama film. It is the first film by director Irene Turner.

Plot

Mismatched college roommates Casey and Grace struggle to get along. Casey wears black and has an attitude because she has always had to struggle, while conservative and proper Grace has a family with money and will marry Charlie when she graduates. Believing Casey is sabotaging her life, Grace plots revenge, dating Casey's friend Joey and pretending to be interested in Casey's life.

Cast

Soleil Moon Frye Soleil Moon Frye (; born August 6, 1976) is an American actress, director, producer, and screenwriter. She began her career as a child actress at the age of two. When she was seven, Frye won the role of Penelope "Punky" Brewster in the NBC sitco ...

as Casey *

Wil Wheaton Richard William Wheaton III (born July 29, 1972) is an American actor. He portrayed Wesley Crusher on the television series '' Star Trek: The Next Generation'', Gordie Lachance in the film '' Stand by Me'', Joey Trotta in '' Toy Soldiers'', ...

as Charlie *

Catherine Taber Catherine Anne Taber (born December 30, 1979) is an American actress. She is known for voicing Padmé Amidala in '' Star Wars: The Clone Wars'' and Lori Loud on ''The Loud House''. Biography In 2000, Taber made her feature film debut starring ...

as Grace *Gary Wolf as Joey *Michelle Brookhurst as Paige *Crystall Carmen as Sweetie *

Julianna McCarthy Julianna McCarthy is an American actress. Biography and career McCarthy began her career on the New York stage and in the mid-1950s appeared in '' Inherit the Wind''. While in the cast, she met and married actor Michael Constantine on Octobe ...

as Nana *

Lela Lee Lela Lee (born in Los Angeles, California, Los Angeles, California) is an American actress and cartoonist, television writer, and the creator of the Animation, animated cartoon ''Angry Little Asian Girl'' and the related comic strip ''Angry Little ...

as Chloe

Production

Much of the filming was done at

Wake Forest University Wake Forest University is a private research university in Winston-Salem, North Carolina. Founded in 1834, the university received its name from its original location in Wake Forest, north of Raleigh, North Carolina. The Reynolda Campus, the un ...

Winston-Salem, North Carolina Winston-Salem is a city and the county seat of Forsyth County, North Carolina, United States. In the 2020 census, the population was 249,545, making it the second-largest municipality in the Piedmont Triad region, the 5th most populous city in ...

Reception

In ''

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'', Lael Loewenstein called the film a "humorous tale of difference and tolerance" and said " nning, intimate performances" by the female stars "anchor the film and help smooth over its occasional lapses in logic." He said the main characters are well developed and neither totally likeable nor always hateful. He described production values as "sharp".

References

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* 2000 films 2000 comedy-drama films American comedy-drama films Films scored by Alan Lazar 2000s English-language films 2000s American films {{2000s-US-film-stub