Pretty Persuasion

You know the title, "Pretty" Persuasion, well, I don't think the movie is pretty. To be honest, I don't think is pretty. Director Marcos Siega just came with this silly excuse for Hollywood, and they astonishly accepted it. The plot seemed... Full review

This movie starts well, as a gutsy dark comedy, but then chickens out and isolates its wonderful star, treats her as a monstrosity and twists the plot so as to become a limp protest against teen violence. The ending set of... Full review

i thought it was horrible.i mean look at how much money it got in the box office it is stupid.i say spend your money on something better.the idea is great,but th actress is not a good character.evan is one of my... Full review

I thought the movie was a great social commentary. From fame, to race, to sexuality, to income inequality the filmakers hit all of them with amusing shocking social satire. Evan Rachael Wood is tremendous in the lead role, as a sexy... Full review

I thought the movie was a great social commentary. From fame, to race, to sexuality, to income inequality the filmakers hit all of them with amusing shocking social satire. Evan Rachael Wood is tremendous in the lead role, as a sexy... Full review

In Beverly Hills, the fifteen years old evil manipulative aspirant actress student Kimberly Joyce (Evan Rachel Wood) convinces her friends Randa (Adi Schnall) and Brittany (Elisabeth Harnois) to falsely accuse their Literature and Arts teacher of sexual harassment. She manipulates... Full review

I kinda liked this film for almost all the wrong reasons. It's politically incorrect and doesn't make any apologies for doing so, but yet demonstrates a notion that we can be bigots, and yet not be consciously aware of it.... Full review

well i enjoyed it it has some nice points to think about tho its a bit too dirty tho its ok after all... Full review

well i enjoyed it it has some nice points to think about tho its a bit too dirty tho its ok after all... Full review

Well it is very very dark but in a trueful dark way. I really liked this movie. I think maybe they should have had a different "twist", if thats what you wanna call the ending, but over all i liked it.... Full review

Too bad for Wood, whose cold-hearted performance manages to push through Siega's constant and insincere boundary-crossing. And Skander Halim's script is as empty and convoluted as Kimberly's web of lies, mistaking ugly for interesting and relevant for consequential. ... Full Review

It's also very, very good.....The film is cynical and somewhat mean spirited.....The cast is excellent.....Films have poked fun at the highschool expereince in the past..... ... Full Review

It's also very, very good.....The film is cynical and somewhat mean spirited.....The cast is excellent.....Films have poked fun at the highschool expereince in the past..... ... Full Review

A clever comedy with many turns, "Pretty Persuasion" has an ending that nobody but Kimberly can predict! Evan Rachel Wood plays Kimberly Joyce, an insanely intelligent, wildly funny, shockingly cruel and sexy-beyond-her-years Beverly Hills teenager who will stop at nothing to become famous. ... Full Review

This movie is content to skim the surface....This movie's ugly worldview isn't the problem --....Ron Livingston delivers the film's best performance as the wrongly accused, yet hardly innocent, Anderson..... ... Full Review

Oldenburg this year has doubled the size of its Audience Award, with prize money totaling E4,000 ($5,720). It will be split between the film's director and a German distrib that picks up the film. ... Full Article

Pretty Persuasion is a diabolical film on a manipulative sophomore girl, hellbent on getting fame. And she'll do all of this by leading her entourage of girlfriends into accusing their English teacher of sexual molestation. ... Full Article

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Marcos Siega's girl-school satire begins in bad taste, in a good way.It's sort of an In The Company Of Schoolgirls, led by a bitching (in all senses) comic turn from rising starlet Evan Rachel Wood. ... Full Article

I was pretty much persuaded to like this independent film in the early going, when it had a distinctive and edgy style that reminded me of "Desperate Housewives." ... Full Article

You thought the tarts from "Mean Girls" were manipulative? In Marcos Siega's "Pretty Persuasion," a bright and beautiful 15-year-old from an exclusive Beverly Hills private school coerces her friends to charge a creepy teacher with sexual abuse. "It's like the ... Full Article