Easy A (2010)

A clean-cut high school student relies on the school's rumor mill to advance her social and financial standing.

Director:

Will Gluck

Writer:

Bert V. Royal

Stars:

Emma Stone, Amanda Bynes, Penn Badgley

Nominated for 1 Golden Globe. Another 8 wins & 15 nominations.

Cast

Cast overview, first billed only:
Emma Stone	...	Olive
Penn Badgley	...	Woodchuck Todd
Amanda Bynes	...	Marianne
Dan Byrd	...	Brandon
Thomas Haden Church	...	Mr. Griffith
Patricia Clarkson	...	Rosemary
Cam Gigandet	...	Micah
Lisa Kudrow	...	Mrs. Griffith
Malcolm McDowell	...	Principal Gibbons
Aly Michalka	...	Rhiannon
Stanley Tucci	...	Dill
Fred Armisen	...	Pastor
Juliette Goglia	...	Eighth Grade Olive
Jake Sandvig	...	Anson
Morgan Rusler	...	Mr. Abernathy

Storyline

After a little white lie about losing her virginity gets out, a clean cut high school girl sees her life paralleling Hester Prynne's in "The Scarlet Letter," which she is currently studying in school - until she decides to use the rumor mill to advance her social and financial standing.

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Plot Keywords:

high school | school | student | friend | rumor | 

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Taglines:

Let's not and say we did.

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Genres:

Comedy | Romance

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Certificate:

14A

Details

Official Sites:

Official Facebook Official site

Country:

USA

Language:

English

Release Date:

17 September 2010 (Canada)

Also Known As:

Easy Girl

Filming Locations:

California, USA

Box Office

Budget:

$8,000,000 (estimated)

Opening Weekend:

£277,975 (UK) (22 October 2010)

Gross:

$58,401,464 (USA) (17 December 2010)

Company Credits

Production Co:

Screen Gems, Olive Bridge Entertainment

Technical Specs

Runtime:

92 min

Sound Mix:

Dolby Digital DTS SDDS

Color:

Color

Aspect Ratio:

1.85 : 1

Did You Know?

Trivia

All the webcam and narration scenes were shot in one day. Emma Stone had a 14-hour day of simply staring at a camera doing every single webcam and narration for the entire movie and every so often she would have to walk around outside to stretch her muscles from sitting so long.

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Goofs

Olive mentions her fake boyfriend at the beginning of the movie who goes to the same college as her brother, but the brother is never mentioned again.

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Quotes

[first lines]
Olive Penderghast: The rumors of my promiscuity have been greatly exaggerated.

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Crazy Credits

The end credits are appearing through a road while we see cars, bikes passing near us.

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Connections

Referenced in Conan: Hug Me, Sighed the Porcupine (2011)

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Soundtracks

Numba One (Tide Is High)
Written by Jason Harrow, Dwayne Chin-Quee, John Holt, Tyrone Evans, and Howard Barrett
Performed by Jason Harrow (as Kardinal Offishall) featuring Keri Hilson
Courtesy of Geffen Records
Under license from Universal Music Enterprises

User Reviews

I Loved this Film and Emma Stone

In California, the virgin student Olive Penderghast (Emma Stone) feels anonymous in the high school where she studies. When her best friend Rhiannon (Alyson Michalka) invites her to spend the weekend with her family, Olive lies and tells that she will have a date with a nonexistent community college student. On the next Monday, Rhiannon goes to the bathroom with Olive and asks how her encounter was and Olive lies, telling that she lost her virginity in the weekend with her fictitious boyfriend. However, one school mate overhears their conversation and spreads the rumor about Olive's promiscuity. The religious fanatic Marianne (Amanda Bynes) blames her and out of the blue. Olive becomes a notorious student.

Meanwhile, Olive is studying "The Scarlet Letter" in the English class and she identifies herself like Hester Prynne, the woman condemned by her Puritan neighbors in Nathaniel Hawthorne's novel. Olive discloses the truth to her bullied gay friend Brandon (Dan Byrd) and suggests him to also lie that he had slept with a girl. Brandon asks Olive to help him and she pretends to have sex with him in a party. Then other outcast boys offer to pay Olive to improve their images while Olive's reputation degrades. When Olive loses control of the situation, she needs to take an attitude to revert it.

"Easy A" is a delightful comedy about an average teenager that is on the spot of her high school mates after telling a lie about an encounter with a fictitious boyfriend. The plot has flaws and some attitudes of Olive are unreasonable. Despite this remark, I loved this film, mainly because the sensual Emma Stone and her sexy voice. My vote is seven.

Title (Brazil): "A Mentira" ("The Lie")