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Movie Overview
Cast
• Evan Rachel Wood
• Ron Livingston
• James Woods
Director
• Marcos Siega
MPAA Rating
R - trong sexual content and graphic dialogue involving teens, and language
Pretty Persuasion (2005)

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OFCS Rating: 54% Rotten
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B-
"a dark teen comedy that tries way too hard to be a dark teen comedy"  AboutFilm.com  Carlo Cavagna

4/5
"not just another black comedy about a manipulative high school *****"  Filmcritic.com  Chris Barsanti

C
"What Pretty Persuasion seems to want most of all is to be outrageous,"  EricDSnider.com  Eric D. Snider

D
"A lack of real satirical bite is incongruously accompanied by a smug sense of self-importance in this shrill but toothless movie."  One Guy's Opinion  Frank Swietek

1/5
"This black comedy's mean-spiritedness comes in one size that fits all."  Spirituality and Practice  Frederic and Mary Ann Brussat

2/4
"Reminds me of a half-hour TV series that has a great pilot episode, then falls apart in subsequent installments."  ReelViews  James Berardinelli

3.5/4
"The audacious, decidedly un-P.C. film lashes out in all directions, with considerable cynicism and double the wit."  MovieMartyr.com  Jeremy Heilman

2.5/4
"Casts the cruel shenanigans at an upscale 90210 school as a metaphor for virtually everything in contemporary American life."  Slant Magazine  Nick Schager

3.5/5
"Solid performances make it work, even if the film seems slightly undernourished."  Shadows on the Wall  Rich Cline

4.5/5
"A 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."  eFilmCritic.com  Scott Weinberg

D
"(Marcus) Siega plays racism, class disdain, ignorance and self-absorption for glib laughs in his equally glib satire..."  Seattle Post-Intelligencer  Sean Axmaker

0.5/4
"Pretty much just a geek show with a tacked-on, bed-wetting moral."  Film Freak Central  Walter Chaw

"Click here to see review"  Wolf Entertainment Guide  William Wolf
OFCS Rating: 54% Rotten
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