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	indieWIRE: To Die From: Marcos Siega's "Pretty Persuasion"
		Bringing shallowness to new depths (or heights, as the case might be) is hardly a challenge, nor is it a fruitful endeavor in the era of E! [ Suzanne Scott is a staff writer at Reverse Shot.
		For all its attempts at dark satire, "Pretty Persuasion" is oddly moralistic, only going so far in its ridiculous caricatures and hit-you-over-the-head dialogue to make the daring point that youngsters, as products of dysfunctional households, will often--gasp!--resort to cruelty to gain attention.
		News outlets, becoming more and more like infotainment, use debacles like the Michael Jackson trial to uphold morality, all the while ignoring Darfur and Baghdad; "Pretty Persuasion" is a minor version of the same hypocrisy, addressing Important Issues via sensationalist, manipulative means whilst chastising its protagonist for the destructiveness of her sensationalist, manipulative behavior.
	www.indiewire.com /movies/movies_050809pretty.html (1215 words)

	Pretty Persuasion (2005)
		But not as persuasive as the dark comedy it strives to be and that is where it was striving to be.
		Pretty Persuasion is a story of privilege run amok in the form of a 15-year-old girl (Wood).
		Pretty Persuasion is not as dark as Heathers (1989), not as funny as Saved (2004), and is a completely mean-spirited version of Clueless (1995).
	www.filmmonthly.com /Video/Articles/PrettyPersuasion/PrettyPersuasion.html (563 words)

	Pretty Persuasion (2005): Reviews
		An obscene, misanthropic go-for-broke satire, Pretty Persuasion is so gleefully nasty that the fact that it was even made and released is astonishing.
		Pretty Persuasion reminds me of a half-hour TV series that has a great pilot episode, then falls apart in subsequent installments.
		"Pretty Persuasion" also needlessly tells its story in a non-linear fashion, and trades the world of teenage girls for the world of courtrooms to the detriment of the "teen film"-genre it's trying to skewer.
	www.metacritic.com /film/titles/prettypersuasion (1293 words)

	Amazon.com: movie info: Pretty Persuasion (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		The tone of "Pretty Persuasion" is disapproving of the sexual relationships that are taking place, its scenes of passion are essential to the plot, and the seduction takes place off camera; making it at least technically in compliance with the old code.
		The story is told from Kimberly's point of view and "Pretty Persuasion is a good example of the power of POV in fostering identification and sympathy for the character through whom we are witnessing the main events.
		After watching Wood in "Pretty Persuasion", you realize that it is not something to be purged from her resume but something she should highlight.
	www.amazon.com /exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/B00005JOG2?v=glance (2081 words)

	Pretty Persuasion News (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		Rating 2 Pretty Persuasion is the kind of teenage movie where James Woods can play the heroine's dad and not be the worst person in the story.
		I was pretty much persuaded to like this independent film in the early going, when it had a distinctive and edgy style that reminded me of "Desperate Housewives." If you've seen that show, then you know what...
		Most viewers and critics jump straight to comparing 'Pretty Persuasion' to the '80s cult classic 'Heathers.' As high school politics have not been depicted in such a dark and disturbing manner since the latter...
	rss.topix.net /movies/pretty-persuasion (624 words)

	Emanuel Levy : Review - Pretty Persuasion
		Park City, Utah--Marcos Siegas Pretty Persuasion is a tough and cynical genre film with a twist, taking the female high-school satire farther and deeper than such predecessors as Heathers (which also came out of Sundance) and Mean Girls (a studio picture).
		Set in Venice, California, Thirteen is a working-class melodrama, whereas Pretty Persuasions is situated in the upper-middle class, though it makes finer distinctions between the nouveau rich, old-time money, and riches amongst foreign students in the U.S., in this case a Muslim girl, who is Kimberly's classmate and becomes her accomplice.
		At first sight, Pretty Persuasion registers as a fl comedy of the absurd, a chronicle of the daily life of one extremely beautiful, bright, and ambitious girl, Kimberly Joyce (Wood), who's worldly-wise beyond her age and too smart for her own good.
	emanuellevy.com /article.php?articleID=143 (1392 words)

	PRETTY PERSUASION
		Pretty Persuasion, scripter Skander Halim's tale of a scheming teenage girl, Kimberly Joyce (Evan Rachel Wood), is written with both poison pen and an outrageously accurate ear.
		She is pretty, calculating, enraptured by herself, manipulative and offhandedly lethal.
		Forget "Happy Days." Pretty Persuasion may be too nasty in its depiction of the sex and power struggles that infest many an educational institution.
	www.filmjournal.com /filmjournal/reviews/article_display.jsp?vnu_content_id=1000980205 (452 words)

	Review: Pretty Persuasion - Cinematical
		This pretty much sums up Kimberly Joyce - she has to be one of the most unlikable characters in the history of film, and yet, you can't help watching her to see what she'll do next.
		Pretty Persuasion has a slightly darker tone than both those movies, though, and in the end, Kimberly Joyce is painted as pretty much irredeemably bad.
		Go see Pretty Persuasion for yourself, get to know Kimberly Joyce in all her evilness and vainglory, and I guarantee, whether you like the ending or not, you'll still be happier than if you'd spent nine bucks to see Jessica Simpson prance around in a bikini.
	www.cinematical.com /2005/08/15/review-pretty-persuasion (1439 words)

	MovieMartyr.com - Pretty Persuasion
		Pretty Persuasion, a high-minded teen comedy set in an exclusive private school casts a remarkably wide net, leaving few hot buttons unpressed in its skewering of a surprisingly large cross-section of American life.
		Pretty Persuasion is the performance of Evan Rachel Wood.
		Pretty Persuasion’s final scene rolls, with Kimberly’s plan fulfilled, it’s a credit to Wood and the filmmakers that her character is still tragic.
	www.moviemartyr.com /2005/prettypersuasion.htm (721 words)

	Movie (Metro Times Detroit)
		To paraphrase the supreme teen satire Heathers, the filmmakers of Pretty Persuasion must have had a brain tumor for breakfast.
		Heathers, with its lampooning of the high school social battlefield, sarcasm and deliciously dark humor, is a masterpiece of a high school movie — and a far cry from the dreck that passes as Pretty Persuasion.
		For all the shots Pretty Persuasion fires off, not a one hits its mark, and the whole thing is as shallow as, well, a Heather.
	www.metrotimes.com /editorial/review.asp?id=100475 (420 words)

	Pretty Persuasion \| The A.V. Club
		Pretty Persuasion belongs to the curious subgenre of comedies about oversexed young people who revel in their own transgressive naughtiness, ratcheting up the sex, nastiness, and emotional brutality of high-school life into a raging tsunami of bad behavior and shattered taboos.
		Pretty Persuasion's nasty one-liners ring hollow and self-satisfied, its satirical points feel obvious and belabored, and its characters function largely as brittle, misanthropic caricatures.
		Where Pretty Persuasion fails as a comedy, it succeeds as a fl little mood piece, thanks largely to the almost scary conviction and sociopathic calm Wood brings to her character.
	www.avclub.com /content/node/25465 (440 words)

	Pretty Persuasion (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		Meanwhile, local reporter Emily Klein (Jane Krakowski), originally assigned to do an insignificant piece on the school, hopes that the scandal will launch her into celebrity in the television news business, while Kimberly's bigoted father, Hank (James Woods), is concerned primarily with the effect that his daughter's accusations may have on his business.
		Pretty Persuasion is a pretty offensive movie as the main character Kimberly says and does just about anything to get ahead in her scheme to become famous.
		Pretty Persuasion is a bad movie in terms of how its revelation can affect sexual harassment charges in real life, but in terms of fiction, coupled with the offensive material, makes for a surprisingly involving story, if you can tolerate it.
	www.moviefreak.com /artman/publish/printer_dvd_persuasion.shtml (321 words)

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	Review: Pretty Persuasion (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		Pretty Persuasion tries to round out Kimberly's character by giving her a dysfunctional home life.
		Pretty Persuasion is at times clever (too clever for its own good?), but it is rarely engaging.
		One of Pretty Persuasion's bright spots is Evan Rachel Wood, who with this added to Thirteen on her resume, is proving herself to be among today's versatile teenage actresses.
	movie-reviews.colossus.net /movies/p/pretty_persuasion.html (730 words)

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		In Pretty Persuasion, a beautiful middle-class white girl observes the socio-political undercurrent at her Beverly Hills high school.
		Pretty Persuasion constantly teeters between admiring Kimberly's toughness and recoiling from it.
		I specifically point out these near-similar vixens because Pretty Persuasion conveys the exact social and psychological depth of a modern bisexual bad girl that a hack like Roos can never make credible.
	www.nypress.com /18/33/film/ArmondWhite.cfm (1112 words)

	Pretty Persuasion - Movie Review
		Like some sketch-comedy Frankenstein monster made from the cutting-room entrails of "Clueless," "The Opposite of Sex," "To Die For," "Election" and "Heathers," the puerile social satire "Pretty Persuasion" is stinging only insomuch as its unsophisticated wit and overwhelming smugness are painful to sit through.
		As a farce, "Pretty Persuasion" fails because the world it depicts bears little resemblance to the realities it aims to lampoon: The teacher is arrested -- during a class -- on nothing more than the girls' accusations, and the tabloid TV journalist answers fan mail on the air during her live news reports.
		While the filmmakers fancy "Pretty Persuasion" an acerbic rumination on the rampant egoism, the cult of celebrity and the reckless litigiousness of 21st century American culture, it plays like nothing more than the boorish, unrefined whims of two adolescent armchair pundits.
	www.contactmusic.com /new/film.nsf/reviews/ppersuasion (560 words)

	IGN: Pretty Persuasion Review
		But the movie flails, rowdily and flagrantly, in its efforts to infuse drama into the proceedings, and by the time a death occurs and supposedly genuine tears are shed, one can barely stand to watch, and certainly not seriously or with any feeling.
		Free of grain, Pretty Persuasion is for the most part clear and vibrant, its devilish narrative set off by crisp photography that highlights open compositions.
		Pretty Persuasion's audio offering is an English language 5.1 Dolby digital track, and it too is wholly adequate.
	dvd.ign.com /articles/686/686731p1.html (926 words)

	Emma Gads \| Books \| Pretty Persuasion (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		Pretty Persuasion was originally a prequel to the first novel I wrote, a time-travel romance (lamely) titled Love Out of Time.
		The aforementioned time-travel story was named after their album Out of Time, and Pretty Persuasion is the title of a song from the album Reckoning.
		She looked young and was of a pretty countenance but unremarkable except for her white-blond hair.
	www.emmagads.com /books/pp.html (4819 words)

	Style Weekly : Richmond's alternative for news, arts, culture and opinion
		There are a few halfhearted attempts to investigate the rich kids at this school, but mostly they remain nameless pretty faces in the background.
		“Pretty Persuasion” concentrates on the subliminal animosity between Kimberly and her best friend, Brittany (Elisabeth Harnois), who compete for boys and drama class roles.
		“Pretty Persuasion” wants to be as precocious as its main character, but while it reaches for satire it only attains the droll, eye-rolling tedium of a high-school dirty joke book.
	www.styleweekly.com /article.asp?idarticle=11510 (277 words)

	Pretty Persuasion (2005)
		A darkly comic film about the evils of high school life, the lust for celebrity, inherent racism, teenage manipulation, family (de)values and sexual misconduct, the film attempts to tie together Heathers, Cruel Intentions, Election, and To Die For in one cute but poisonous little bow.
		The "cute" factor comes from talented actress Evan Rachel Wood (13), who's popular, pretty 15-year-old Kimberly runs her Beverly Hills roost with a curious mixture of faux friendliness and cynical self awareness.
		As coolly capable as she is, she nabs the part—and over her best friend (Elisabeth Harnois), who's pretty heartbroken about it.
	www.reel.com /movie.asp?MID=141068&buy=open&Tab=reviews&CID=13 (371 words)

	slant // magazine.com: Film Review - Pretty Persuasion
		Kimberley is a chilly sex kitten with a conniving, razor-sharp mind, and her quest to become an actress entails a scheme that plays off of virtually every explosive topic cramming today's newspapers, including sexual abuse, neglectful parents, prejudice against Arabs and Jews, and an entertainment arena that cherishes shallow objectification and superficiality above all else.
		Ambition, however, is both Pretty Persuasion's finest and weakest attribute, lending its parody a wide-ranging, take-no-prisoners vitality as well as a glib thinness that eventually wears out its snarky welcome.
		After a barrage of audacious insolence highlighted by Kimberley's anti-Semitic rant at a fund-raising event orchestrated to foster a spirit of multiculturalism ("At least my dad isn't a money-grabbing Jew shyster!"), the action slows to a crawl as the court case against Mr.
	www.slantmagazine.com /film/film_review.asp?ID=1687 (282 words)

	Pretty Persuasion Movie Review - Pretty Persuasion Movie Trailer - The Boston Globe
		As with a lot of what Wood has been seen in thus far, ''Pretty Persuasion" isn't so much awful as it is self-conscious, overdone, shallow, and just not up to the level of its star.
		On TV's ''Once and Again" she was a promising up-and-comer, and in Catherine Hardwicke's ''Thirteen" she at least had meaty drama on her side, even if it was too transparently staged to shock and awe.
		But ''Pretty Persuasion" is also undemanding in the way of ''Clueless" or ''Mean Girls," while at the same time it pretends to be as weighty as an ''Elephant" in the social commentary department.
	www.boston.com /movies/display?display=movie&id=7635 (550 words)

	MTV Movies \| News \| Evan Rachel Wood Gets Skanky In 'Pretty Persuasion,' Weeps In Green Day Clip
		Although Wood was not even a teenager when she began acting and only 15 when she shot "Pretty Persuasion," the soon-to-be 18-year-old never had an issue with the content.
		After "Pretty Persuasion," Wood has a few other projects due this year, beginning with Green Day's video for "Wake Me Up When September Ends" (see "It's A Dark Day For Green Day In Somber 'September' Video").
		To thrive in the same movies with such actors, a teenager needs to be well-grounded, and Woods points to one of her "dark girl" roles for helping her find that maturity.
	www.mtv.com /movies/news/articles/1506976/08042005/story.jhtml (1202 words)

	Zap2it.com - Movie news - 'Pretty Persuasion' Is Not Another Teen Movie
		On its surface, Wood's latest film, the indie release "Pretty Persuasion" looks like it violates the actress' central edict.
		Skander Halim, the film's young screenwriter, wrote "Pretty Persuasion" as a risk-taking spec script when he was working as a Hollywood reader.
		Ultimately Samuel Goldwyn Films bought "Pretty Persuasion" and the film will go into limited release on Friday (Aug. 12) without a rating (when it goes wide, it will assume an R-rating).
	movies.zap2it.com /movies/news/story/0,1259,---26500,00.html (735 words)

	The DVD Journal \| Quick Reviews: Pretty Persuasion (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		In the vein of dark classics Election and Heathers, Pretty Persuasion (2005) tackles the vicious and petty power struggles of contemporary high schoolers with the kind of sharp and shocking satire that is sure to delight (and define) a select group of sophisticated, iconoclastic teens while scaring the living shit out of unsuspecting parents.
		Certainly, teens who are likely to identify with and celebrate Pretty Persuasion's bold cynicism are better served by such a medicinal (and realistic) about-face, but it disserves the movie's stylistic and thematic coherence and holds it back from the rarefied company of the similar cult classics it emulates.
		Sony's Pretty Persuasion is presented in a good anamorphic transfer (2.35:1) with Dolby Digital 5.1 audio.
	www.dvdjournal.com /quickreviews/p/prettypersuasion.q.shtml (284 words)

	Defamer, the L.A. Gossip Rag: One Night At The ArcLight: "Pretty Persuasion" Fiascos, Keanu Reeves Models A Helmet
		From the multiple reports we've gotten surrounding last night's clusterfucky premiere of Pretty Persuasion and a screening of The Aristocrats that would've been unremarkable if not for the incredibly conspicuous presence of a munchies-afflicted Keanu Reeves (in a motorcycle helmet, no less), it seems like everyone was at the ArcLight last night.
		At the Pretty Persuasion event, readers report that things were so overbooked and disorganized that James Woods, the real star of the movie, found himself pressed into usher duty.
		Last night I attended the L.A. premiere for PRETTY PERSUASION, an Evan Rachel Wood starrer that could be be described (in a lazy, development exec sort of way) as TO DIE FOR meets WILD THINGS meets CLUELESS meets CRUEL INTENTIONS.
	www.defamer.com /hollywood/screenings/one-night-at-the-arclight-pretty-persuasion-fiascos-keanu-reeves-models-a-helmet-116786.php (1094 words)

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