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Pretty Persuasion
Directed by
Marcos Siega
R
2005
1h 48m
Comedy
,
Drama
6.4
33%
62%
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A 15-year-old girl incites chaos among her friends and a media frenzy when she accuses her drama teacher of sexual harassment.
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Cast of Pretty Persuasion
Evan Rachel Wood
Kimberly Joyce
Selma Blair
Grace Anderson
Jane Krakowski
Emily Klein
Stark Sands
Troy
Elisabeth Harnois
Brittany
Jaime King
Kathy Joyce
James Snyder
Dave
James Woods
Hank Joyce
Robert Joy
Larry Horowitz
David Wagner
Morgan
Brent Goldberg
Rick
Adi Schnall
Randa
Michael Hitchcock
Headmaster Charles Meyer
Danny Comden
Roger Nicholl
Josh Zuckerman
Josh Horowitz
Ron Livingston
Percy Anderson
Cody McMains
Kenny
Mike Erwin
Barry
Octavia Spencer
Woman
Angelo Spizzirri
Cody
Christopher Thornton
Emmett Friedman
Clyde Kusatsu
Judge Carl Munro
Julie Wittner
First Bystander
Navid Negahban
Mr. Azzouni
Veena Bidasha
Mrs. Azzouni
Tina Holmes
Nadine
Alex Désert
Joe
Shanna Olson
Tiffany Minx
Lisa Arturo
Stephanie Swift
Johnny Lewis
Warren Prescott
Jessica Landon
School Girl
Kim Argetsinger
High School Girl
Amber Matthews
High School Girl
Alexis Krause
Reporter
Marcos Siega
Director / Producer
Skander Halim
Writer
Todd Dagres
Producer
Carl Levin
Producer
Matt Weaver
Producer
Pretty Persuasion Ratings & Reviews
Seattle Times
Moira MacDonald
Wood's fine work is undermined by the movie it's trapped in, which feels like a rough draft of itself: Skander Halim's screenplay is unnecessarily twisty and gimmicky, and some of the teenspeak dialogue falls flat, already out of date.
Houston Chronicle
Joey Guerra
The screenplay by Skander Halim falters. It's too convoluted and cloudy to have the intended effect.
Boston Globe
Janice Page
Self-conscious, overdone, shallow, and just not up to the level of its star.
Philadelphia Inquirer
Steven Rea
Leaves no gender, race, class or religion untouched in its scabrous effort to show how cruel humans can be. But it also leaves viewers with no one at all to like, or believe.
Atlanta Journal-Constitution
Melinda Ennis
The movie shifts tones as abruptly as a teenager's mood swings.
Ebert & Roeper
Richard Roeper
It's so smug about it and pleased with itself.
Washington Post
Stephen Hunter
Pretty Persuasion considers itself snarky black comedy, one of those self-consciously 'outrageous' artifacts that means to shock even as it amuses.
San Francisco Chronicle
Mick LaSalle
Partly a character study, partly a monster movie (with the girl as the monster) and partly a satire of American values in the modern age, the film is also, alas, only partly successful.
Denver Post
Lisa Kennedy
Pretty Persuasion is a nasty piece of work. Yet it offers some unvarnished and amusing thoughts about American contradictions.
Chicago Tribune
Allison Arnold Helminski
Unlike Heathers and Election -- both brilliant satires because they exaggerate reality, magnify and darken the truth -- Pretty Persuasion is not funny because it's not true.
Washington Post
Curt Fields
Populated by characters that are either over-the-top cartoonish or drawn with all the depth of stick figures, there is only one reason to watch this latest entry in the high-school-as-Dante's-ring genre -- Evan Rachel Wood.
Chicago Sun-Times
Roger Ebert
The material in Pretty Persuasion needed to be handled as heavy drama, or played completely for comedy, and by trying to have it both ways, the movie has it neither way.
The New Yorker
David Denby
Wood does flip cynicism with such precise, easy rhythms and with such obvious pleasure in naughtiness that she's impossible to hate.
Zap2it.com
Daniel Fienberg
Pretty Persuasion is just smart enough for scattershot humor, but not perceptive or deep enough to be meaningful.
New York Post
Lou Lumenick
Pretty Persuasion is so exploitative and misogynistic that its last-minute dramatic turns and pleas for tolerance and understanding come off as manipulative as its heroine.
New York Daily News
Elizabeth Weitzman
Pretty Persuasion sets out to be a social critique but settles for smug disdain.
Los Angeles Times
Carina Chocano
Too flip to be serious and too smug to be rousing.
New York Times
Stephen Holden
Any satire worth its salt should not be afraid to offend, and Pretty Persuasion flings mud in all directions with a fearless audacity.
Newsday
John Anderson
Skander Halim's script and Siega's direction often clash with their own very dark plot.
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