What Would John Hughes Do?

Rating: 10/10 (19 December 2012)

"Easy A" earns an A as an excellent movie. This sophisticated comedy celebrates liberal causes and embraces diversity. Olive Penderghast (Emma Stone) gets in trouble when she tells her best friend Rhiannon that she spent a weekend with a college guy. Mind you, Olive had no date and spent the entire weekend in her room with her dog as her only companion, and played the song "I've Got A Pocket of Sunshine." Later, at school, Rhiannon refuses to believe that her oldest friend didn't have sex with a college guy. Reluctantly, our heroine breaks down under pressure and admits that she did have sex. A bubble-headed Christian fanatic, Marianne, occupies a stall when Olive makes her confession to Rhiannon. Later, Olive helps a homosexual guy out at her high school who is being bullied by the straight guys. She takes Brandon (Dan Byrd) to Melody Bostic's party and they fake like they are having incredible sex. Afterward, Brandon has nothing to worry about because all the guys treat him now as one of them. Olive attracts scandal and acquires a sordid reputation. Eventually, word leaks out in certain quarters that Olive and Brandon didn't have sex and others bribe Olive so say they have had sex with her. Meantime, Marianne, does her best to derail all of Olive's plans and launches a smear campaign against her. Marianne emerges as the chief villainous in "Easy A." Olive gets in trouble with the school principal when she calls one of Marianne's minions Nina (Mahaley Manning) a "twat." Olive is blessed with two of the most liberal parents in the world and they have adopted an African-American child. "Easy A" qualifies as refresh, funny, and fast-moving. Emma Stone is sensational!