Easy A

[MacGuffin]

Trailer here.

Release Date: September 17th, 2010 (wide)

Starring: Patricia Clarkson, Penn Badgley, Emma Stone, Amanda Bynes, Lisa Kudrow

Directed by: Will Gluck

Premise: After a little white lie about losing her virginity gets out, a clean cut high school girl sees her life paralleling Hester Prynne's in "The Scarlet Letter," which she is currently studying in school -- until she decides to use the rumor mill to advance her social and financial standing.

[polkablues]

They're lucky they got Emma Stone for this, because she is the only reason I would be interested in seeing it.

[Sleepless]

What Polka said

[modage]

This movie got so much love!  It's not that good!  The movie coasts on Emma Stone's charm but there's only like half a movie here.  There's no conflict, believable relationships or reason for her to be doing this.  Writer/director Gluck has apparently never spent time around actual human beings nor seen how movies are supposed to work.

[SiliasRuby]

I hearted this movie but after reading mods review I can't disagree with him. It made me feel and thats what counts (for me) when I see a movie. Thats why I have a special place in my heart for 'Win a Date with Tad Hamilton' and every single John Hughes film of the 1980's. Yeah, you read that right. I think its miles above any of the other teen movies of the past year (excluding Apatow's ones) and more people should see it with its flaws. Warts and all.

[Pas]

"i hearted" lol

[Ostrich Riding Cowboy]

I (somehow) managed to sit through the entirety of this thing. There's nothing in this movie that you didn't learn from Dogville.  Dogville is the more humorous of the two.

[Sleepless]

I actually really enjoyed this. Granted, I wasn't expecting much, but I went in hoping it'd be at least half-decent. Wasn't exactly groundbreaking but for a high school movie I thought it was definitely on the better end of the scale. Quite an impressive cast, and several clever gags in the script which couldn't have worked if the actors didn't get it. Plus, Emma Stone at the center of it all. Two thumbs up for a popcorn night in.

[polkablues]

I agree with Sleepless.

[Pas]

Yeah there are a couple great oneliners in there, like when the dad asks his adopted son where he comes from originally, quite funny.

If all teen movies were like this I'd rent them all. Who am I kidding, I rent them all anyway.

[Stefen]

Weird. I watched this last night too!  Did we all watch it because it's now available instantly on Netflix? 

I was going to watch Bergmans Persona, but I put that on, got 5 minutes in and said Eff this and opted for something lighter.

I didn't even feel like watching a movie. I really just wanted to eat popcorn.

I barely remember any of this movie. It was pretty forgettable. I remember that I really hate teen movies where the teen is smarter than their parents, and their parents know it. I remember there was an illegal immigrant who she ends up falling for for no other reason other than the script called for it. I remember how she was the nerd of the school who nobody noticed despite being the hottest girl at said school. I remember strange body features like Emma Stone's five-head and some fat kid at the swimming pool who had tons of body hair.

[polkablues]

I remember there was an illegal immigrant who she ends up falling for for no other reason other than the script called for it.

What on god's green earth are you talking about?

[Stefen]

I remember there was an illegal immigrant who she ends up falling for for no other reason other than the script called for it.

What on god's green earth are you talking about?

This amigo.

[Mr. Merrill Lehrl]

I'm way more interested in this conversation than the actual movie.

[Ostrich Riding Cowboy]

I agree with Merrill.