Easy A
(M), 105 minutes, 3.5/5
There's a saying about it taking a lifetime to build a reputation, but only seconds to destroy it.
Teenage high school student Olive (Emma Stone) knows exactly what it means.
Olive is a very likeable, unpretentious, honest yet anonymous student who doesn't know what it means to
put a foot in the wrong place.
Her good name and reputation have come from living a straight life.
That life begins to unravel when she mistakenly boasts to her best friend about a weekend sexual dalliance.
She actually hadn't even been out with a guy but she just wanted to get her friend off her back.
Olive's sexual admission opens a hornet's nest when overheard by the school's good Christian girl and president of the "abstinence till married" club.
In a split second, Olive goes from anonymous to scandalous - the girls look down on her, while her popularity with the boys grows enormously.
When a gay friend seeks to boost his reputation with a heterosexual fling with Olive, the die is cast.
Olive is soon regarded as the school tramp as her reputation takes a pounding. But the truth is all she has done is tell a few lies while helping out those most needy.
It is fascinating to watch a community turn on her, based only on rumour and innuendo.
The only thing that keeps her sane are her insane parents - Rosemary and Dill (Patricia Clarkson and Stanley Tucci).
Easy A is not smutty but does put a humorous bent on the touchy subject of teenage sex.
