Pretty Persuasion Movie Review 2005

Nasty girls. Toxic Kimberly (Wood) rules her private high school roost, dragging along airhead best pal Brittany (Harnois) and new student Randa (Schnall) in her wake. The vicious teen targets her English teacher, Mr. Anderson (Livingston), who harbors fantasies about his female students, accusing him of sexual abuse and persuading her friends to back her up. The ensuing scandal and trial are played up by preening tabloid reporter Emily Klein (Krakowski). Woods is around as Kimberly's wealthy, aggressively nasty dad. Smug and offensive.

Distribution

Sony Pictures Home Video, Sony Pictures Plz., 10202 W. Washington Blvd., Culver City, CA 90232, Phone: (310)244-7306, Fax: (310)280-2485, URL: http://www.spe.sony.com, Remarks: Formerly Columbia Tristar Home Entertainment

Available on DVD
Running time 104 minutes.
Originally from United States.

Cast and Crew

Genres

Black Comedy, Comedy Drama, Teen Drama, Revenge, Hell High School, Blackmail, Lesbians

Screenplay

Skander Halim

Cast

Evan Rachel Wood, Ron Livingston, James Woods, Jane Krakowski, Elisabeth Harnois, Selma Blair, Danny Comden, Stark Sands, Michael Hitchcock, Robert Joy, Jaime (James) King, Adi Schnall, Alex Desert

Cinematography

Ramsay Nickell

Director

Marcos Siega

Music

Gilad Benamram

Other

Robert C. Jackson, Janet Billig Rich, Elissa Marshall, Nicholas Erasmus, Danny Glicker, Paul Oberman

Producer

Matthew Weaver, Todd Dagres, Carl Levin, Marcos Siega