Pretty Persuasion
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- Synopsis
- In this dark satire of our present day do-it-yourself scandal, manipulate-the-media, easy fix pill-popping, overnight celebrity obsessed culture, wise-beyond-her-years high school student Kimberly Joyce (Evan Rachel Wood) accuses her English teacher ......
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- Starring
- Evan Rachel Wood, James Woods, Ron Livingston, Jane Krakowski, Selma Blair
- Director(s)
- Marcos Siega
- Distributor(s)
- Samuel Goldwyn
- MPAA Rating
- R
- Runtime
- 104 min.
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The New York Times | Stephen HoldenAdd Critic to Favorites
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. Much of it is also extremely funny.Read the full review
Los Angeles Times | Carina ChocanoAdd Critic to Favorites
It's too bad that the satire is not more pointed, because Pretty Persuasion is outrageously funny in short blasts, mainly thanks to James Woods at his most gleefully depraved.Read the full review
The Onion (A.V. Club) | Nathan RabinAdd Critic to Favorites
In a star-making performance, Evan Rachel Wood stars as essentially a younger version of Nicole Kidman's media-age femme fatale from "To Die For," an aspiring 15-year-old actress who hides a sharp, calculating mind behind a façade of vapid, chattering self-absorption.Read the full review
