Just Another Girl on the I.R.T.

classified 15
Film

Fri 18 - Sun 20 July

Director
Leslie Harris
Cast
Ariyan A. Johnson Kevin Thigpen, Ebony Jerido
Details
97 mins, 1992, USA
Primary language
English

In the run up to this year's Cinema Rediscovered (Wed 23 - Sun 27 July 2025), we’re celebrating a favourite from the third edition of the festival – Just Another Girl on the I.R.T. – which we showed all the way back in 2018, as part of a programme of ‘Women on the Periphery’.

This time Leslie Harris’ under-sung cult gem is back in a beautiful new 4K restoration.

Chantel Mitchell (Ariyan A. Johnson) a black, bright and beautiful Brooklyn girl knows where she's at and where she's going. She's determined to go to college, become a doctor, and live her best life, and not to become "just another girl on the IRT" (one of NYC's subway lines). But when she meets fly guy Tyrone, a high-school heart throb with the cheek and looks to rival her own, things get a little derailed...

Part cinéma vérité, part hip hop music video, this is a groundbreaking, streetwise look at inner city black life that should have been a teen classic in the vein of Clueless or She's All That.


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