Woods Hole Film Festival 2008

Dr. Jessica Karp is the new head of staff at the Mayfield Institute for Psychiatric Medicine. She inherits the case of Georgia and Virginia Gruczechy, twin sisters in their mid-20's who haven't spoken to anyone but each other in over 14 years. Not only that, but they move in complete synchronization. Though set for release, Dr. Karp decides to keep the girls committed and treat them separately. The girls beg her to change her mind. Dr. Karp refuses. So they kill her. Once released, Georgia and Virginia create their own perverse world in their dreary apartment. Their days are spent pursuing their peculiar obsessions (porn, trepanation, prison penpals), joyriding in stolen cars, and writing a bizarre romance novel. One day Virginia bumps into a handsome neighbor and everything changes. She begins to long for a relationship outside the one with her sister. When Georgia realizes that she may lose Virginia to Oyo, a local teenager, she becomes unhinged. In the meantime, Max, the security guard from Mayfield, begins to suspect that he may have shared some responsibility in Dr. Karp's murder. Determined to set things right, Max starts his own investigation. As the tension between Georgia, Virginia and Oyo rises to its climax, can Max get there in time to make a difference? Set against Pittsburgh's deteriorating vistas, Strange Girls dissects the rotten underside of female relationships: the horror, manipulation, claustrophobia, violence, and obsession of two women who cannot stand to live together but cannot live apart.