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Easy A
Why this pick
Like Saved!, it turns high-school moral panic into fast, witty satire while keeping its socially ostracised lead sympathetic and in control of the joke.
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MOVIE2004 1h 32m USA
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01 / THE STORY
A little about the film.
Teenager Mary Cummings (Jena Malone), who has "been Born again (Christianity) her whole life," is about to enter her senior year at American Eagle Christian High School near Baltimore. She and her two best friends, Hilary Faye (Mandy Moore) and Veronica (Elizabeth Thai), have formed a girl group called the Christian Jewels. Mary’s "perfect Christian boyfriend" Dean Withers (Chad Faust) tells her, as they’re swimming underwater, that he thinks he's Homosexual. In her shock, Mary hits her head in the pool, and has a vision in which Jesus tells her that she must do everything she can to help Dean. Hoping for a sign, Mary goes to a shooting range with Hilary Faye, who has a "spiritual solution for everything," and tells Mary (not knowing about the situation with Dean) that, if all else fails, Jesus could still restore their "spiritual and emotional virginity." Believing that Jesus will restore her purity, Mary sacrifices her virginity to have sex with Dean in an attempt to restore his heterosexuality.
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02 / FACES IN THE FRAME
The people who bring it to life.
Mandy Moore
Hilary Faye
Macaulay Culkin
Roland
Heather Matarazzo
Tia
Eva Amurri Martino
Cassandra
Chad Faust
Dean
Valerie Bertinelli
Herself
Birkett Turton
Mitch
Jena Malone
Mary