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Epicurus.com - Clueless
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List Price: $9.95
Our Price: $0.49
Your Save: $ 9.46 ( 95% )
Availability: N/A
Manufacturer: Paramount
Starring: Silverstone, Rudd, Murphy, Dash, F
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Audience Rating: PG-13 (Parental Guidance Suggested)
Binding: VHS Tape
EAN: 9786303853109
Format: Closed-captioned
ISBN: 6303853102
Label: Paramount
Manufacturer: Paramount
Number Of Items: 1
Publisher: Paramount
Release Date: 1996-05-28
Running Time: 97
Studio: Paramount
Theatrical Release Date: 1995-07-19
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Alicia Silverstone won everyone over with her portrayal of a Beverly Hills teen, Cher, whose penchant for helping others with their relationships and self-esteem is a cover for her own loneliness. Director Amy Heckerling (Fast Times at Ridgemont High) made a smart, funny variation on Jane Austen's novel Emma, sweetly romantic and gently satirical of 90210 social manners. The cast is unbeatable: Dan Hedaya as Cher's rock-solid dad, Wallace Shawn as a geeky teacher, Paul Rudd as the boy who has always been Cher's surrogate brother--and the true holder of her most secret wishes. --Tom Keogh
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Summary: This is where Dionne lives. She's my friend because we both know what it's like for people to be jealous of us.
Comment: Cher Horowitz(Alicia Silverstone) is your typical average 15 year old girl. Only of course her father is a rich lawyer, she's gorgeous, spoiled rotten and lives in a Beverly Hills mansion.
Now with that said, this modern day take on Jane Austen's masterpiece Emma obviously falls short of the original and well, our heroine is a bit of an airhead.
BUT although slightly vapid we begin to actually care for these characters and especially Cher, with her attempts at self improvement and love for her family and friends. (She may not be as self-centered as we imagined?)
It's a film you can watch over and over again, and it had yet to become dated!
Paul Rudd also adds a lot to the film as Josh, Cher's adorable ex-stepbrother.
Is it a classic, perhaps not, but it does everything it sets out to and is still tons of fun! And who doesn't love walking around spouting 'As If!'
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Summary: Classic funny & feel-good, smart humor
Comment: I watched this movie again (for the umpteenth time) recently while going through a really rough patch, and it was great to be inspired to laugh out loud, over & over again. Amy Heckerling has a gift for doing movies that are a perfect mix of goofy and witty hilarity. The casting couldn't have been better, across the board. Alicia Silverstone manages to brilliantly pull off playing a girl who's naively and irresistibly lovable, despite having been brought up with the kind of privilege which would make most people detestable. This is much more than just your average, teeny-bopper chick-flick; a much wider audience can appreciate the intelligent humor, poking delightful fun at the 90s generation. I challenge anyone not to crack up during the "freeway scene"; it's absolutely priceless, thanks in large part to the great comedic skills of Donald Faison. Paul Rudd is definitely dreamy (just to address the chick-flick aspect!). Highly recommended to anyone who could use a laugh. :)
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Summary: Hilarious
Comment: I really disliked teen movies. Didn't like the 1980s Brat Pack movies (including Molly Ringwald's), didn't like the 1990s movies (e.g., "Never Been Kissed", "She's All That", "10 Things"). Sitting through them was torture, so I never bothered with "Clueless" at the time it came out, thinking it was of the same ilk. It so isn't.
"Clueless" is two steps above the other teen movies. It doesn't make the mistake of taking high school too seriously as the others do; it pokes endless fun at the genre and teens in general. At the same time, however, it has an element of affection which the funny parodies of teen films don't have. It's a perfect combination; Amy Heckerling deserved that WGA nomination.
Alicia Silverstone is hilarious as the well-meaning but clueless Cher, and Heckerling channels the funniest aspects of Austen's Emma to make Cher. Her well-meaning generosity is coupled with just a little shallowness. Heckerling also does a fantastic job of making Cher at once countercultural but even cooler because of it. Her rant about boys who wear pants eighty sizes too big is great, and she manages to deliver an anti-drug message without being preachy. Unlike recent movies like "Knocked Up" and "Juno", Heckerling, with earnest humor, has Cher make virginity cool - "You see how picky I am about my shoes and they only go on my feet." I don't know how Heckerling pulled it off, but she does.
Paul Rudd is adorable as the George Knightley (Josh) falling for Cher, and Brittany Snow and Breckin Meyer make the dopey Tai and skater Travis a fantastic pair. Elisa Donovan's catty Amber, who manages to land Elton, is fantastic.
My favorites after Silverstone are Stacey Dash and Donald Faison as Dionne and Murray and Dan Hedaya as Cher's father. Dash and Faison are so hilarious on screen together; Murray's head shaving and their exchange about "woman" and "Miz Dionne" are laugh-out-loud good. Dan Hedaya delivers on Hecklering's script; his comment to Christian ("I've got a .45 and a shovel. I doubt anyone would miss you") is delivered with all the grumpiness of Austen's Mr. Woodhouse.
Again, though, the genius of this movie lies in Heckerling's script. She makes a surprisingly close rendition of "Emma", despite the radically different setting, and manages to infuse it with both some of Austen's amusing look at the characters as well as modern humor. (Dionne's hats are a riot.) Very fun.
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Summary: Ah, lighthearted fun
Comment: Great movie; Brings me back to when I was like 13. Some of the jokes already seem a bit dated, but this is Alicia Silverstone at her peak. Not a very deep movie, but it's cute nonetheless.
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Summary: this is not a children's movie, although if you were 12 you'd probably like it
Comment: When I first saw this movie, I was 12. Of course, at the time I loved the movie. I thought that Alicia Silverstone was such an interesting actress and I liked how the movie included "real life" from a kid's perspective. Keep in mind, at the age of 12 my brain was not fully developed.
I do not know how any adult can sit still long enough to watch the opening credits of this movie. It is absolutely nauseating and ridiculous from beginning to end. Frankly, I am also very offended by the scenes of the kids using and abusing recreational drugs at that party. I don't care if it's just a movie and I don't care if you think I am a prude, drugs are disgusting and should never be glamorized to children. I'm sorry that's just the way I feel.
The only person I enjoyed in this movie was Julie Brown as the gym teacher, Ms. Stoeger. She was a hard pill to swallow but also a very clever supporting character, who I barely recognized.
What this movie does not tell the viewer is that money and status and clothing and material possessions do not make you a better person. As a kid watching this I never knew that and I thought that Cher was such a lucky child to have everything that she did. As an adult, I see how sad and tragic and out-of-control her life really was.
If you want to see a realistic presentation of teen life as it was and is and should be then I recommend getting any of the first 4 seasons of 90210.
BTW, the actress who played Dionne, Stacey Dash is in her 40's! I'm not very surprised because she looked like she was pushing 28 or 29. Talk about being miscast.
Can someone please tell Bravo to stop showing this smack every few days? Is their programming dept. really that un-creative and lazy? Thank goodness for on-demand otherwise I'd never find anything on TV except for this shameless example of degradation.
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