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Box office. $537,100 [2] Pretty Persuasion is a 2005 American black comedy film directed by Marcos Siega, written by Skander Halim, and starring Evan Rachel Wood, James Woods, Ron Livingston, Elisabeth Harnois, and Jane Krakowski. Its plot follows a manipulative, sociopathic 15-year-old student at an elite Beverly Hills academy who accuses her ...
- $537,100
- Gilad Benamram
- $2.5 million
- Marcos Siega
Aug 25, 2005 · "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. He comes close, but then everyone comes close, except for the innocent bystanders. The movie stars Evan Rachel Wood, who is amazingly good playing a spiteful, cruel high school student. There are so many movies where the heroine is persecuted by the popular ...
"Pretty Persuasion" is a dark satire of our present day do-it-yourself scandal, manipulate-the-media, easy fix pill-popping, overnight celebrity obsessed culture. When worldly-wise beyond her years high school student Kimberly Joyce (Evan Rachel Wood) accuses her English teacher (Ron Livingston) of sexual harassment, she turns her exclusive ...
- Marcos Siega
- Danny Comden
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Aug 12, 2005 · May 9, 2020 Full Review Felicia Feaster Creative Loafing Pretty Persuasion is a slutty little movie pretending to be an important one. Feb 3, 2020 ... If not satire, it is to shine the light on ...
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- Marcos Siega
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- Evan Rachel Wood
Pretty Persuasion is an effective hybrid of The Crucible, Mean Girls and Heathers, but lacks their generic coherence. It’s jaw-droppingly inappropriate and features some extremely fine comedy moments, but in the final reckoning it tries too hard to have relevant social meaning – the echoes of Columbine are misplaced in this form of satire.
User Reviews. In Beverly Hills, the fifteen years old evil manipulative aspirant actress student Kimberly Joyce (Evan Rachel Wood) convinces her friends Randa (Adi Schnall) and Brittany (Elisabeth Harnois) to falsely accuse their Literature and Arts teacher of sexual harassment. She manipulates also the lesbian journalist Emily Klein (Jane ...
Pretty Persuasion. The Devil wears a gray skirt, my friend, and her name is Kimberly Joyce. "It's like the world is this orchestra and I'm the conductor." — Kimberly Joyce, pretty much summing up what kind of character she is. Pretty Persuasion is a 2005 American Black Comedy directed by Marcos Siega, starring Evan Rachel Wood, James Woods ...
