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2004 Certificate 15
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Good girl Mary (Jena Malone) and her domineering best friend Hilary (Mandy Moore) are starting their senior year at the top of the social food chain at American Eagle Christian High School. Until Mary’s boyfriend says he thinks he might be gay. And she’s convinced she needs to do everything to help him. And ends up pregnant. As .. Read more

Starring Jena Malone, Mandy Moore, Macaulay Culkin, Patrick Fugit
Director Brian Dannelly
Genres Comedy, Drama

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Good girl Mary (Jena Malone) and her domineering best friend Hilary (Mandy Moore) are starting their senior year at the top of the social food chain at American Eagle Christian High School. Until Mary’s boyfriend says he thinks he might be gay. And she’s convinced she needs to do everything to help him. And ends up pregnant. As Hilary and her devoted disciples turn against her, Mary finds herself alone, and eventually befriended by the school’s other pariahs – including Hilary’s cynical, wheelchair-bound brother Roland (Macaulay Culkin). And so the group of outsiders band together to navigate the treacherous halls of high school…

Starring Jena Malone, Mandy Moore, Macaulay Culkin, Patrick Fugit, Martin Donovan
Director Brian Dannelly
Studio MGM ENTERTAINMENT
Run time DVD: 1 hr 29 mins
Certificate Certificate 15
Genres Comedy, Drama
Language DVD: English
Dubbed Hungarian, Polish
Hearing-impaired English
Subtitles DVD: Bulgarian, Croatian, Danish, Dutch, English, Finnish, Greek, Hungarian, Norwegian, Portuguese, Slovenian, Swedish, Turkish
Released DVD: 28 Feb 2005
Production year: 2004
Format DVD
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  • 3 stars out of 5

    All the high-school stereotypes are pleasingly present and correct for this otherwise original teen movie; there's the bitch, the jock, the rebel and the geek. The difference here is the setting. American Eagle High is a strict Christian school with a trendy preacher as principal (Pastor Skip, played by Martin Donovan), where discovering that you're pregnant or gay will get you sent for moral re-education or “degayification”. Brian Dannelly's debut movie is, for its first two thirds at least, a scabrous look at the intolerance and hypocrisy of some fundamentalists. The cast is uniformly likeable (there's a particularly good turn from Macaulay Culkin as a wheelchair-bound cynic) and the screenplay delivers sharp dialogue and a host of good jokes. The fact that it pulls its punches at the end will come as a relief or an irritation depending on your viewpoint, but there's still a lot of fun to be had on the way.

    • Radio Times
  • 1 stars out of 4

    Mild satire of religious fundamentalism that runs out of jokes at the halfway mark and, as if frightened of its own daring, retreats into a soggy sentimentality.

    • Halliwell's Film Guide
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  • 19 out of 21 people found this review helpful

    Rated - 4 stars

    Excellent

    This is a great movie. Its funny, its tongue in cheek, and it doesnt take itself too seriously. Surprisingly, Mandy Moore ditches her slushy 'nobody lets me live my life!!' teenage slushy role stigma, for an actually great performance of a fanatical Christian girl trying to convert everyone to her way of life.

    Jena Malone is pretty good, as is Macaulay Culkin, again, another surprise.

    Dont take the religious theme too seriously - just enjoy it cos its entertaining.

      • Christian from London
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  • 1 out of 1 person found this review helpful

    Rated - 3 stars

    A must see (for allChristians especially)

    I was sooo looking forward to this film. I had seen a lot about it & hadn't had a chance to watch it in the cinema so when I signed up 2 this online rental I had to get it first. It didn't disappoint.

    Although not an accurate depiction of a Christian school or the majority of Christians it does raise all the issue's every Christian who has been brought up with the faith, or has had it for a while, has had to deal with. It looks at homosexuality, divorce, love, sex, & how far is too far while trying show others what you believe is right. Very much a predictable teenage film it has just enough of an original twist to it for me to enjoy it.

    The major question I asked myself throughout was, is it blasphemous? Well, it brings up important issue's & I very much think that more films should be made to make you think rather than to line the pockets of Hollywood. If you're a Christian it'll make you think, if your not you'll have a good laugh at just how over the top the Christian world can go & how hypercritical it can be! So in short, I don’t believe it is blasphemous. And anyway, can the creator of the world, maker of everything, the one being who knows everything that’s ever happened & is to come actually be offended? Is it offensive to imply he could be?

      • totallydelirious from Hertfordshire
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