John Hughes lives, well his memory does in this film, it felt like a Hughes movie, it certainly bowed down in homage to the great director, even allowing us some glimpses of his great films and playing every Hughes card we've ever been dealt throughout his films! This film wants to take it's place alongside those films, and for me it gets there with plenty to spare.
What's it about? A clean-cut high school student relies on the school's rumor mill to advance her social and financial standing.
Cast: Emma Stone, Penn Badgley, Amanda Bynes, Thomas Haden Church, Stanley Tucci and Patricia Clarkson
Written by Bert V. Royal
Directed by Will Gluck
What I liked? Emma Stone, the script, the soundtrack.
What I didn't like? Not enough ROFL moments.
Summary: Emma Stone is an up an coming actress, I liked her in Zombieland and in this she is perfect. In fact everybody is great, Tucci and Clarkson are fantastic as her parents, while Bynes shines in her roll as Clean Teen! The only person who struggles is Kudrow, she just can't shake that Phoebe from Friends tag. But Stone is brilliant here and her sense of comedy is really delivered well, from her lines to her actions, I can't think of any actress which could have done a better job.
Gluck also shines, in his homage to John Hughes, well I thought it was, it does have enough clues in it, with references and video clips from a lot of his films, or maybe it's just a tribute to the 80's high school films, like Say Anything, another film referenced. But whatever it is, I liked it, I really like it, and so did my wife!
Overall I thought it was smart, brilliantly acted, a fine tribute to Hughe's style of film making and wholly entertaining (9/10)
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