Cert 15
88 mins
Comedy/Romance
Hard-working student Olive (Emma Stone) tells a tiny white lie to best friend Rhiannon (Alyson Michalka) about losing her virginity to a mystery man — and Bible-bashing classmate Marianne (Amanda Bynes) spreads the salacious news around the school.
Olive embraces her new lowly reputation for the good of others.
She manufactures a hook-up with classmate Brandon (Dan Byrd) to dispel whispers about him being gay and confesses to giving Marianne’s dim-witted boyfriend Micah (Cam Gigandet) a sexually transmitted disease in order to protect the real culprit: School counsellor Mrs Griffith (Lisa Kudrow), who is married to Olive’s favourite teacher (Thomas Haden Church).
Events quickly spiral out of control and as friends turn against her, Olive finds a solitary ally in her old school crush, Woodchuck Todd (Penn Badgley).
'Easy A' is a delicious tale of girl power inspired by Nathaniel Hawthorne’s 19th-century classic, ‘The Scarlet Letter’.
Star Rating: 4/5