Smart high school comedy with the talented Emma Stone.

Rating: Null/10 (11 January 2011)

Emma Stone is Olive, student at North Ojai High School, just northwest of Los Angeles, where they grow lots of oranges. Although that is not germane to the story. By her own analysis, so far she has gone through high school without getting noticed. By anyone, not even the guidance counselor.
Then, one day just to shut up her best friend who persists on asking her about a date she never had (a pretend date to avoid have to spend a weekend with her friend's family) she tells her that he is a college guy and they slept together.
All of that was false but with twitter and instant messaging everyone at school got the news right away, after the conversation was overheard by staunch Christian girl Amanda Bynes as Marianne.
So suddenly, Olive's anonymity disappears, all the girls look at her with suspicion, and all the guys want to score with her. Instead of quelling all that right away, she sort of enjoys the attention and runs with it.
Thomas Haden Church is her favorite teacher, Mr. Griffith. They are reading and discussing "The Scarlet Letter" and Olive picks up on that theme, often wearing a scarlet 'A' on her chest. Patricia Clarkson is Olive's sort of crazy mom. Lisa Kudrow is the guidance counselor, Mrs. Griffith, and also wife of the Literature teacher. And they even dragged in old Malcolm McDowell as Principal Gibbons.
Emma Stone is really good, on the verge of becoming a star, perhaps the star Linsey Lohan would have become if she hadn't screwed up her life. And the writing is very smart. A nice entertaining movie overall.
SPOILERS: Eventually Olive's 'reputation' got too far, and a classmate asked her out to actually pay her, with a $200 gift certificate, for sex. She dispatched him in the parking lot of the restaurant, spurning his advances, and was given a ride home by an old friend, now the school mascot. It turned out both of them had secret crushes on each other since the 8th grade, and now that things were cleared up with Olive's webcam broadcast, she and the boy were destined to be together.