Olive Penderghast is an erudite seventeen-year-old and things follow the usual rigamarole at her SoCal high school: she's smart and studious, thereby nerdy, anonymous, and virtually invisible to the opposite sex...that is until she spins a tale to her strong-willed best friend that she gave up her "V card" to a random college guy. This leads to a trigger effect when her quiet little fib circulates throughout the entire school and then quickly transitions her social standing from nonentity to on the map, but then her situation spirals in ways she could've never fathomed. Because the high school outcast trope has been covered more times than you care to count some familiarity is bound to show, but this really is intelligent and engaging with a hilarious mix of coarse and satiric barbs, colorful, quotable lines--with some welcomed John Hughes and other mainstream movie references thrown in, plus it's effortlessly anchored by Emma Stone's illustrious comic performance. ***
Review of Easy A
