‘Easy A’ a delicious tale of girl power

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