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Tishala
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08-01-2000
| Saturday, May 29, 2004 - 5:44 pm
I went to see this today for a few reasons. 1. That Culkin kid. He's so cute. 2. Susan Sarandon's daughter, Eva Amurri, is in it. 3. Mandy Moore. I dislike her and I heard she played a detestable character in this film. I thought, "what great casting!" 4. It's only in five cities right now, I think, and I like being able to view this stuff before every critic in America has had his or her chance to tell me how good or bad it is. 5. My apartment looks directly toward the Hollywood sign and I didn't want to see it swept away in "Day After Tomorrow." Now the review. It's a fun, sweet, and slightly perverse film--a high-schol comedy about gung-ho Christians. Some people will think this is an anti-Christian film, but it's not. It satirizes some of the overblown tropes of evangalism (it is more interested, metaphorically, in Tammy Faye's eyelashes than in her dogma). The film, like Clueless with a catechism lesson, has a heroine named Mary whose boyfriend decides to tell her he is gay; she thinks getting pregnant is a reasonable solution; her best friend (Mandy Moore) attacks her with outlandish ferocity (and she's actually funny). The ending isn't the best you'll see--isn't it predictable that a film about high school ends at a prom?--but the movie packs sweetness beside a bit of a bite (like Dinah Washington's voice or a whiskey sour) and it's quite enjoyable. I give it a B.
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Hippyt
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06-15-2001
| Saturday, May 29, 2004 - 5:52 pm
Interesting. I read an article about it recently. They took a Christian youth group to see a screening. The kids weren't offended by it,but they said their parents probably would be.
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