by: Rio O'Keefe
The title says it all: Easy A definitely deserves an “A” for being amazingly funny. Easy A opened in theaters on Friday, September 17 directed by Will Gluck. The movie felt like a mix of 16 Candles, The Breakfast Club and The Scarlet Letter.
In the movie, Olivia Prendergast (Emma Stone) tells her best friend Rhiannon (Alyson Michalka) a little lie that gets covered by another lie and then another, eventually being drowned in a sea of lies that heads to a life of chaos. When her little lie about losing her “V-Card” to a college freshman gets overheard by a “Jesus Freak” named Marianne (Amanda Bynes), news spreads fast around school.
This opens up new meaning to the phrase Kiss-N-Tell. Text messages, Facebook status updates and twitter posts make it around to even Olivia’s teacher Mr. Griffith (Thomas Haden Church). He is married to school counselor Mrs. Griffith (Lisa Kudrow) who is having an affair with super senior student of four years Micah (Cam Gigandet).
When Olivia tries to tell the truth to help people in need, they take advantage of her by paying her in gift cards to Lobster Shack, Home Depot, Bath and Body coupons and much more just to tell others they hooked up with her.
When telling the truth doesn’t work out, Olivia makes the best of it by wearing lingerie with a letter “A”, symbolizing the infamous scarlet letter. She continues to have people judge her the wrong way.
When she gets enough of hurting herself, she makes a webcam video for the school to see the truth. This breaks up a marriage, gains her friendship back with Rhiannon, and even helps her find true love to a guy who knew the truth along.
This movie deserves four out of five stars. It makes a common story, that a lot of girls in high school share, think about what mistakes they made and whether or not they were worth it in the end. Ultimately the movie cautions all viewers: be careful what you say because high school is like a game of telephone; the story keeps changing and eventually some people get hurt.
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