SummaryIn this sophisticated comedy, Evan Rachel Wood plays Kimberly Joyce, and insanely intelligent, wildly funny, shockingly cruel and sexy-beyond-her-years Beverly Hills teenager who will stop at nothing to become famous. (Samuel Goldwyn Films)
Directed By:Marcos Siega
Written By:Skander Halim
Pretty Persuasion
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45
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It is also extremely well-written in the fearless way of a smarty pants on a roll in the university cafeteria.
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There is such a thoroughgoing nastiness to the plot and dialogue that the film almost achieves a level of buoyancy.
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Pretty Persuasion reminds me of a half-hour TV series that has a great pilot episode, then falls apart in subsequent installments. Movies need to grow and change to keep things interesting; this one is stagnant.
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If the resulting film doesn't work equally well at all levels, Wood (who starred in "Thirteen") gives an astonishing performance that pushes it most of the way there.
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An exercise in bad taste that takes itself just seriously enough to be offensive.
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It just rings false, like having Hannibal Lecter take up vegetarianism.
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There's enough estrogen gone awry in this bitchy teen comedy to make "Mean Girls" look like a Disney after-school special.
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Feb 9, 2021
10
This movie is hilarious
And its moral story is a quiet series problem of the modern life, Drama Queen Psychopaths.
And this movie displays this sickness so simple, yet so so complex.
It is a tragedy, yet it is a comedy.
It is so dry, yet it is so fleshed.
It is so raw, yet it is so elegant.
The plot shows the drama queen, Kimberley, operating on a an environment where all little poor hypocrites are under affection of her.
Movie shows how everyone else has a share of hypocrisy, pumping up the dramas of the Queens.
And Kimberly knows this, and uses this. That is where her "superiority" over others lies.
She knows she has the upper hand. While everyone else is busy with their own petty concerns, devil is busy to prepare her drama based on these petty concerns. Every little scene, every actor, every acting is prepared with no mistake, and to the point.
Casting was great. Everyone performed well.
James Woods at dinner scene, Ron Livingston at dinner scene with his wife, Jane Krakowski at news reporting scenes are all wonderful.
Take Robert Joy at the court scene. He is so amazing, by just saying nothing.
And Evan Rachel Wood (Kimberly) is just wonderful.
She is not acting this drama queen, she knows her by heart ( she must have been either exposed to drama queens to much, or herself is one )
Production Company:
- REN-Mar Studios
- Prospect Pictures
Release Date:Aug 12, 2005
Duration:1 h 44 m
Rating:R
Tagline:Evil comes in a school uniform.
Awards
Oldenburg Film Festival
• 1 Win & 1 Nomination
Sundance Film Festival
• 1 Nomination
Deauville Film Festival
• 1 Nomination
