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Easy A

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2010 film by Will Gluck
For the pejorative term for an easy academic program, seeMickey Mouse degrees.

Easy A
A teenage girl standing in front of a green chalkboard, labels are pointing at her and she is holding up a page which explains how this is the story of how she ruined her reputation.
Theatrical release poster
Directed byWill Gluck
Written byBert V. Royal
Produced by
  • Zanne Devine
  • Will Gluck
Starring
CinematographyMichael Grady
Edited bySusan Littenberg
Music byBrad Segal
Production
companies
Screen Gems
Olive Bridge Entertainment
Distributed bySony Pictures Releasing
Release dates
  • September 11, 2010 (2010-09-11) (TIFF)
  • September 17, 2010 (2010-09-17) (United States)
Running time
92 minutes[1]
CountryUnited States
LanguageEnglish
Budget$8 million[2]
Box office$75 million[3]

Easy A (stylized aseasy A) is a 2010 Americanteenromanticcomedy film directed byWill Gluck, written byBert V. Royal, starringEmma Stone,Penn Badgley,Amanda Bynes,Thomas Haden Church,Patricia Clarkson,Cam Gigandet,Lisa Kudrow,Malcolm McDowell,Aly Michalka, andStanley Tucci. The screenplay was partially inspired by the 1850 novelThe Scarlet Letter byNathaniel Hawthorne.

Shot atScreen Gems studios and inOjai, California, the film was released on September 17, 2010. The film received positive reviews with high praise for Stone's performance, and was a major financial success, grossing $75 million worldwide against a budget of $8 million. Stone received aGolden Globe nomination forBest Actress in a Comedy or Musical, while the movie won theCritics' Choice Award forBest Comedy. The film is ranked as number 14 onEntertainment Weekly's 2021 list of the Best High School Movies.[4]Easy A is also Bynes’ last appearance in a motion picture film to date.

Plot

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The story is narrated by Olive Penderghast, a seventeen-year-old high school student living inOjai, California, speaking into her webcam.

Desperate to avoid going on a camping trip with her best friend Rhiannon Abernathy and Rhiannon's hippie parents, Olive dishonestly claims she is going on a date with a college boy that weekend; truthfully, she stays home all weekend listening toNatasha Bedingfield's "Pocketful of Sunshine" from amusical greeting card her grandmother sent her. Pressed by Rhiannon the following Monday, Olive eventually folds and lies about having lost her virginity to the boy she ostensibly went out with. Prudish, devout Christian student Marianne Bryant overhears their conversation, and Olive's story soon spreads throughout the school. The school's church group, run by Marianne, decides to "save" Olive from her supposed promiscuity. Olive confides the truth to her classmate Brandon, a gay student who is bullied for his sexual orientation. She agrees topretend to have sex with him at a party so people will believe he is straight.

After a fight with Rhiannon, Olive decides to counteract the harassment by embracing her new reputation as a "tramp," beginning to dress more provocatively and stitching a red "A" onto her clothes, inspired byHester Prynne fromNathaniel Hawthorne's 1850 novelThe Scarlet Letter, which she has been reading in English class. Boys who have had no previous luck with girls beg Olive to increase their popularity by letting them claim they have had sex with her, which she does in exchange for gift cards to various stores. Marianne's boyfriend Micah contractschlamydia from sleeping with the school guidance counselor Mrs. Griffith, but claims Olive was the one who gave it to him. Because Mrs. Griffith's husband, Mr. Griffith, is Olive's favorite teacher, she accepts the blame to spare their marriage.

The church youth group, now including Rhiannon, begins harassing Olive in an attempt to get her to drop out of school. She goes on a date with Rhiannon's crush Anson, which ends with her storming off angrily after he tries bribing her to actually have sex with him and not just claim that she did.

Olive reconnects with Todd, her childhood crush and the school mascot, who says he does not believe the rumors because she lied for him when he was not ready for his first kiss years ago. She decides to ask everyone she lied for to admit the truth, but nobody is willing to relinquish their newfound reputations. When Mrs. Griffith also refuses to admit to her affair with Micah, Olive threatens to expose her, but Mrs. Griffith says no one would believe her. Olive immediately informs Mr. Griffith, who subsequently separates from his wife.

After talking with her mother, Olive comes up with a plan – she performs a song-and-dance number at a pep rally to draw people's attention and tells them to watch her webcast that night, promising an onlinesex show with Todd. In reality, the webcast has served as theframe story for the film. As Olive is concluding her webcast, Todd comes by her house riding a lawn mower. She signs off by saying that she may lose her virginity to him eventually, but declares it "nobody's goddamn business". Olive texts Rhiannon and apologizes for lying to her. She goes outside to meet Todd, and they kiss before riding off on the lawn mower.

Cast

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Production

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Development

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ScreenwriterBert V. Royal claims to have written the entire screenplay, except for the last ten pages, in five days.[5] Royal's plan was to adapt three classic works into films and to set them at the same high school, so that some characters would appear in multiple films. BesidesThe Scarlet Letter, which was the source material forEasy A, Royal wanted to adaptCyrano de Bergerac andThe Mystery of Edwin Drood.[5]Natasha Bedingfield's song "Pocketful of Sunshine", which becomes arunning joke in the film, was not in Royal's original script. He envisioned "Olive", a track fromKen Nordine's 1966 albumColors, to play during Olive's weekend montage (which introduces the song).[5] DirectorWill Gluck's favorite film isFerris Bueller's Day Off and has multiple homages to it in the film (Olive's shower Mohawk, "never had one lesson"), among many otherJohn Hughes references.[6] According to Royal, although the word "fuck" appeared 47 times in the original draft, which was written as an R-rated comedy, all occurrences were cut from the final film. Gluck shot other versions of many scenes, with or without coarse language.[5] Although the film was cut down for a wider audience, it still obtained a 15 rating in theUnited Kingdom.[7]

Filming

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Gluck credits Stone with improvising the line about being a "Gossip Girl in theSweet Valley ofTraveling Pants".[8] The entire film was shot inOjai, California in the summer of 2009, usingPanavision'sGenesis and laterfilmized. Not a single film set was used; even the houses in the film belong to Ojai residents. The school used as "Ojai North High School" in the film isNordhoff High School, and the end credits are filmed on Fordyce Road, both located in Ojai, California.

Soundtrack

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The soundtrack was released byMadison Gate Records on September 14, 2010, and is available viaiTunes. It features tracks fromJessie J,Lenka,Natasha Bedingfield,Kardinal Offishall, andCary Brothers. Other songs in the film but not on the soundtrack album are fromOneRepublic,Angus & Julia Stone,The Dollyrots,Death Cab for Cutie, andThe Pussycat Dolls.[9]

Easy A (Original Motion Picture Soundtrack)
Soundtrack album by
Various Artists
ReleasedSeptember 14, 2010
GenrePop,hip hop,rock,punk rock,new wave
LabelMadison Gate Records
No.TitleMusicLength
1."Change of Seasons"Sweet Thing3:46
2."Bad Before Good"Day One3:50
3."Trouble Is a Friend"Lenka3:37
4."If You Were Here"Cary Brothers3:49
5."15 Minutes"The Yeah You's3:30
6."Cupid Shoot Me"Remi Nicole3:43
7."Satellite"Kram3:06
8."Don't You (Forget About Me)"AM4:23
9."We Go Together"I Heart Homework3:17
10."Numba 1 (Tide Is High)"Kardinal Offishall3:42
11."Perfect Picture"Carlos Bertonatti3:06
12."The Wolf"Miniature Tigers2:35
13."Sexy Silk"Jessie J2:43
14."When Life Gives Me Lemons I Make Lemonade"The Boy Least Likely To3:42
15."Pocketful of Sunshine"Natasha Bedingfield3:24
16."Don't You (Forget About Me)"Simple Minds4:23

Release

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Emma Stone and Penn Badgley at the film's Toronto premiere.

Easy A had itsworld premiere at the2010 Toronto International Film Festival.[10]

Home media

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Easy A was released onDVD andBlu-ray Disc on December 21, 2010.[11] The DVD features a gag reel,Emma Stone's audition footage, anaudio commentary with director Gluck and Stone, and previews. Blu-ray exclusive bonus features include: The Making ofEasy A, The School of Pop Culture: Movies of the '80s, Vocabulary of Hilarity and a trivia track.

Reception

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Box office

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The film opened on September 17, 2010, and grossed $6,787,163 on its opening day and $17,734,040 in its opening weekend, placing second behindThe Town on both figures, and already making back more than double the film's slim $8 million budget. This was in line with expectations from Sony of an opening weekend take of around $15 million.[2]The film grossed a total of $58,401,464 in the United States and Canada plus $16,624,752 in international markets for a worldwide total of $75,026,216, earning its budget back more than nine times, making it a huge financial success.[3]

Critical response

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On thereview aggregator websiteRotten Tomatoes,Easy A has an approval rating of 85% based on 193 reviews, with anaverage rating of 7.1/10. The site's critical consensus reads: "It owes a huge debt to older (and better) teen comedies, butEasy A proves a smart, witty showcase for its irresistibly charming star, Emma Stone."[12] Another review aggregator,Metacritic, assigned the film a weighted average score of 72 out of 100, based on 35 critics, indicating "generally favorable reviews".[13] Audiences polled byCinemaScore gave it an average grade of A− on an A+ to F scale.[14]

Chicago Sun-Times film criticRoger Ebert gave the film three and a half out of four stars, writing: "Easy A offers an intriguing middle ground to the absolute of sexual abstinence: Don't sleep with anybody, but say you did. It's a funny, engaging comedy that takes the familiar but underrated Emma Stone and makes her, I believe, a star."[15]Richard Corliss ofTime magazine named Emma Stone's performance one of the ten best film performances of 2010: "Stone lends winning maturity and a gift for making sassy dialogue sound natural. This 22-year-old is an actress-personality — a star — around whom Hollywood could build some pretty good movies."[16] John Griffiths fromUs Weekly gave it two and a half stars out of four: "With her husky voice and fiery hair, Stone is spectacular, echoing earlyLindsay Lohan...The story is thin, and the laughs meager."[17]

The Independent praisedEasy A for redefining tropes of teen films, particularly sex comedies.[18] In a retrospective piece forThe Washington Post, Anying Guo discussed its influence, pointing out how it subverted "sex-crazed tropes into a sharp, thoughtful film" by satirizing teens' obsession with virginity itself.[19] Guo added: "Packed with references to “Say Anything” and other ’80s homages, the film felt refreshing against the steady churn of bildungsroman narratives that often centered on young men."[19]

Accolades

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CeremonyCategoryRecipientsResult
Artios Awards[20]Outstanding Achievement in Casting – Feature – Studio or Independent ComedyLisa Miller KatzNominated
The Comedy AwardsBest Comedy FilmEasy ANominated
Best Comedy ActressEmma StoneNominated
Best Comedy DirectorWill GluckNominated
Critics' Choice AwardsBest Comedy FilmEasy AWon
Dorian AwardsUnsung Film of the YearWon
EDA AwardsActress Defying Age and AgeismPatricia ClarksonNominated
Eddie AwardsBest Edited Feature Film – Comedy or MusicalSusan LittenbergNominated
Empire AwardsBest ComedyEasy ANominated
GLAAD Media AwardsOutstanding Film – Wide ReleaseNominated
Golden Globe AwardsBest Actress in a Motion Picture – Musical or ComedyEmma StoneNominated
Golden Schmoes AwardsBest Comedy of the YearEasy ANominated
Biggest Surprise of the YearNominated
Best Actress of the YearEmma StoneNominated
Breakthrough Performance of the YearNominated
MTV Movie AwardsBest Female Performance[21]Nominated
Best Comedic Performance[22]Won
Best Line from a Movie[23]Emma Stone andAmanda BynesNominated
People's Choice AwardsFavorite Comedy MovieEasy ANominated
Russian National Movie AwardsBest Foreign Comedy MovieNominated
St. Louis Gateway Film Critics Association AwardsBest ComedyNominated
Special Merit(for best scene, cinematic technique or other memorable aspect or moment)For theJohn Hughes tribute near the beginning.Nominated
Teen Choice Awards[24][25]Choice Movie: Romantic ComedyEasy AWon
Choice Movie Actor: Romantic ComedyPenn BadgleyNominated
Choice Movie Actress: Romantic ComedyEmma StoneWon
Choice Movie: Female Scene StealerAly MichalkaNominated

Sequel/spin-off

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It was announced on June 20, 2019, that a spin-off film ofEasy A is in development, which will be written and directed by Bert V. Royal.[26] Further confirmation of the film came in 2021, withAly Michalka stating: "There are talks that there might be a sequel. That actually is semi real. ... It would be kind of like a new retelling but you'd see some of the characters from the original come back into the story."[27]

References

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  2. ^abFritz, Ben (September 16, 2010)."Movie projector: 'Easy A' expected to lead 'The Town,' 'Devil,' 'Alpha and Omega'".Los Angeles Times.Archived from the original on February 3, 2019. RetrievedSeptember 16, 2010.
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  14. ^"CinemaScore".cinemascore.com. Archived fromthe original on September 16, 2017.
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  18. ^Lewis, Isobel (September 21, 2020)."Sexless Comedy, Cool Parents and a Cocky Emma Stone: How Easy A Redefined the Noughties Teen Film".The Independent.Archived from the original on March 31, 2022. RetrievedMarch 31, 2022.
  19. ^abGuo, Anying (September 16, 2020)."I saw the teen comedies of my generation, but they didn't see me. Then came 'Easy A.'".The Washington Post.Archived from the original on October 24, 2021. RetrievedMarch 31, 2022.
  20. ^"2011 Artios Award Nominations for Outstanding Achievement in Casting".Casting Society of America. 2011.Archived from the original on January 1, 2012. RetrievedJanuary 7, 2012.
  21. ^"Best Female Performance"Archived March 4, 2012, at theWayback Machine.MTV Movie Awards. Retrieved May 3, 2011.
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  23. ^"Best Line from a Movie"Archived March 4, 2012, at theWayback Machine.MTV Movie Awards. Retrieved May 3, 2011.
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