Easy A on DVD now

Easy A charts the story of Olive, a likeable, smart, quick witted and intelligent  American teenager, (yes you did read that correctly) who tells a lie about losing her virginity a lie that soon grows. Olive goes from being non-existent in high school to being the center of attention and she decides to use her newfound notoriety to help out a friend and for financial gain. Soon the rumours circulate and the lie grows and grows and Olive has to find a way to salvage her reputation and to silence the religious fever her ‘promiscuity’ has stirred up.

Emma Stone, soon to be seen in the Amazing Spiderman, is great as Olive – smart, funny and even more surprising she’s likeable and that’s not something I say about American teenage girls often. Her little lie throws her into a dilemma which is paralleled to the book she is studying – The Scarlet Letter, so Olive decides to take it to the extreme and then has difficulty containing the genie once it was out of the bottle. Stone is so important on this movie as most of it rests on her young shoulders –she succeeds in running away with the film and launching herself onto the A List. The script is great and all of the supporting characters are interesting and suitably skewed and distorted which keeps you interested. If you like Mean Girls or Clueless or even if you older Heathers, this would be perfect viewing.

Director: Will Glut

Cast:
Emma Stone                      - Olive
Penn Badgley                    -  Woodchuck Todd
Amanda Bynes                  -  Marianne
Dan Byrd                            - Brandon
Thomas Haden Church    - Mr Griffith