But I'm a Cheerleader
by Jamie Babbit
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Actor: Brandt Wille, Bud Cort, Clea DuVall, Michelle Williams, Natasha LyonneDirector: Jamie Babbit
Brand: LIONS GATE ENTERTAINMENT
Writer: Jamie Babbit
Producer: Alexis Magagni-Seely
Producer: Andrea Sperling
Producer: Andy Kaplan
Producer: Donald Kushner
Producer: Effie Brown
Writer: Brian Wayne Peterson
DVD: Region Code 1
Audio: English (Original Language)
Format: Closed-captioned, Color, DVD-Video, NTSC, Widescreen
Picture Format: 1.85:1
Running Time: 85 minutes
DVD Release Date: 2003-07-22
Audience Rating: R (Restricted)
Studio: Lions Gate
Movie Reviews of But I'm a Cheerleader
Movie Review: A must have for all LGBT film collections
Summary: 5 Stars
This is one of the best self discovery / coming out movies ever made. It is also the funniest appealing to both men and women. The story centers around a young woman's self discovery and dealing with the repercussions it causes in her life. This film has no real "dirty parts" but it dose star Rupaul as a male teacher at a private school teaching Queer kids to act Straight. I feel it deserves a place in every LGBT film collection.
Summary of But I'm a Cheerleader
This candy-box colored comedy of sexual discovery chronicles the life of Megan (Natasha Lyonne), a typical teenager coming of age in anything but a typical fashion. Megan's super normal suburban existence is filled with friends, pom-poms and rah-rah enthusiasm until her straight-laced parents (Mink Stole and Bud Cort) suspect that their "little poodle" may, in fact be showing deviant tendencies. In a complete panic, Megan's parents elicit the help of her friends and the guidance of a rehabilitation camp to mount an all-out intervention. Mike (an out-of-drag RuPaul Charles), a True Directions counselor, leads the intervention and before Megan can pack her pom-poms she is whisked off to learn how to be a perfect woman.True Directions is run under the strict, all-seeing eyes of the sadistic Mary (Cathy Moriarty). Megan dutifully gets with the deprogramming so she can quickly return to her life of boyfriends, football games, and her absolute favorite activity - cheerleading. Everything seems perfect, but the fun begins when her hormones start to rage, and her friends and family wonder where she'll find love!
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Starring: RuPaul Charles, Clea DuVall, Natasha Lyonne, Cathy Moriarty, Eddie Cibrian, Melanie Lynskey, Wesley Mann, Richard Moll, Douglas Spain, Katharine Towne
Directed BY: Jamie Babbit
Running Time: 84 Min., Color
Copyright Lion's Gate Entertainment 2003.
Format: DVD MOVIE
A promising comedy that goes awry all too early, But I'm a Cheerleader concerns a misunderstood high school kid (Natasha Lyonne) whose parents send her to a harsh, homosexual-rehabilitation camp despite a lack of evidence that she's gay. Ruled with an iron fist by a fascist counselor (Cathy Moriarty), the clinic only drives Lyonne's character toward an attraction to a rebellious tomboy (Clea DuVall), though screenwriter Brian Wayne Peterson and director Jamie Babbit are curiously intent on keeping the two apart and depriving the audience of other comic possibilities. Meanwhile, hoary clich?s abound: prancing boys, butch gays, lipstick lesbians. Despite a fine cast full of young talent, and cameo appearances by Julie Delpy and RuPaul Charles, this attempt to skewer a present-day trend in "curing" homosexuals of their sexual preferences is flattened by stereotypes and unimaginative thinking. --Tom Keogh
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