
Manipulative high school sophomore Kimberly Joyce leads her friends Brittany Wells and Randa Azzouni in bringing charges of sexual assault against Percy Anderson, their English and drama teacher at an exclusive private school in Beverly Hills. Meanwhile, local reporter Emily Klein, originally assigned to do an insignificant piece on the school, hopes that the scandal will launch her into celebrity in the television news business, while Kimberly's bigoted father, Hank, is conc... (Full plot summary below)
Enjoy FREE movies and series with your Prime (USA) subscription or when you start a 30-day free trial!
Links compiled using automated software. Availability of offers subject to change / might be region specific / out of date.
Manipulative high school sophomore Kimberly Joyce leads her friends Brittany Wells and Randa Azzouni in bringing charges of sexual assault against Percy Anderson, their English and drama teacher at an exclusive private school in Beverly Hills. Meanwhile, local reporter Emily Klein, originally assigned to do an insignificant piece on the school, hopes that the scandal will launch her into celebrity in the television news business, while Kimberly's bigoted father, Hank, is concerned primarily with the effect that his daughter's accusations may have on his business.
Leave your thoughts about Pretty Persuasion.
| The Globe and Mail (Toronto)David GilmourIt is also extremely well-written in the fearless way of a smarty pants on a roll in the university cafeteria. |
| MovieMartyr.comJeremy HeilmanThe audacious, decidedly un-P.C. film lashes out in all directions, with considerable cynicism and double the wit. |
| EricDSnider.comEric D. SniderWhat Pretty Persuasion seems to want most of all is to be outrageous, |
| eFilmCritic.comScott WeinbergA shocking glass of ice-water to the face of complacency, a giddily gross and intentionally shocking wake-up call to America's youth...or, more likely, to their parents. |
| Seattle Post-IntelligencerSean AxmakerThe disingenuous attempt to give the tawdry story some kind of social import only makes the tinny caricatures more insincere, while his erotic display of 15-year-old girls isn't a satire of a sexualized culture, it's just dirty. |
| Jam! MoviesBruce KirklandMuckrakes in such a convoluted, bizarre way that it threatens to become what it seems to be satirizing: A racist, homophobic, mean-spirited tract. |
| tonymedley.comTony Medley"Mean Girls" meet "The Crucible." ...a devastating portrait of a sociopathic teenager with a tour de force by Evan Rachel Wood. |
| Film Journal InternationalBruce FeldThe film is as disturbing as it is amusing, reveling in the hypocrisy of its hopelessly dysfunctional world. |
| The Coast (Halifax, Nova Scotia)Mark PalermoThe very dark comedy is about the crossing point of righteousness and exploitation. |
| Commercial Appeal (Memphis, TN)John BeifussMatches the glossy, calculated kinkiness of a pay-cable television series to a story that unfolds like a Young Adult author's stab at a Bret Easton Ellis novel. |