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Clueless (Whatever! Edition)

Clueless (Whatever! Edition)
by Amy Heckerling

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Actor: Alicia Silverstone, Brittany Murphy, Donald Faison, Paul Rudd, Stacey Dash
Director: Amy Heckerling
Brand: PARAMOUNT HOME VIDEO
Producer: Twink Caplan
Cinematographer: Bill Pope
Writer: Amy Heckerling
Producer: Adam Schroeder
Producer: Barry M. Berg
Producer: Robert Lawrence
Producer: Scott Rudin
DVD: Region Code 1
Audio: English (Subtitled); Spanish (Subtitled); English (Original Language), Dolby Digital 2.0 Surround
Format: Color, DVD, NTSC, Special Edition, Widescreen
Picture Format: 1.66:1
Running Time: 97 minutes
DVD Release Date: 2005-08-30
Audience Rating: PG-13 (Parental Guidance Suggested)
Studio: Paramount

Movie Reviews of Clueless (Whatever! Edition)

Movie Review: Step In To Delight
Summary: 5 Stars

Clueless is a thoroughly delightful film, this edition improves on it with excellent bonus features - all are good, but Fashion 101 is not to be missed.

Despite its glossy veneer - a world populated by attractive, narcissistic, and privileged kids - Clueless is a smart, droll, endearing look inside youth culture. Because it touches on universal themes, fully operational when Jane Austen wrote Emma, the film withstands the test of time despite language (as if) and fashion trends (droopy drawers for skaters) that, as fads, have the average life span of a drosophila.

Many viewers will approach Clueless with a certain amount of hostility. Cher, the protagonist, played to perfection by Alicia Silverstone, is impossibly beautiful. Worse still, her father, a gruff but charmingly protective Dan Hedaya, is beyond rich. Even worse, Cher seems to live entirely on the surface of things, expressing her creativity through social meddling and wardrobe. (The outfits worn by Cher, her friend Dionne, and others in their inner circle are reason enough to watch the film.) How could we ever like such wretched, spoiled kids?

Because, Clueless is a beautifully executed, gentle satire, not a broad farce or biting indictment. Writer/Director Amy Heckerling, (who also did Fast Times At Ridgemont High - a lesser endeavor), understands and loves her characters, they are not stereotypes. We like these kids because they are in on the joke, they know they're hothouse orchids. Blatant examples include Murray, played by Donald Faison (now on Scrubs) a black uber-yuppie who learns his street patois from MTV, and Jeremy Sisto's Elton who has apparently hobbled his identity together from Rat Pack press photos.

With the stage beautifully set, a comedy of manners begins, Cher manipulates people in order to serve her idea of the greater social good and learns a few lessons along the way. No one is shot. No helicopters appear. Inept driving is featured, but there are no car chases. Wonder of wonders, especially for a teen movie, there is no gratuitous sex. Amy Heckerling is to be saluted for creating a film that relies on story, dialogue, detail, character, and acting to do the work. Her success is complete. Clueless uses SoCal youth culture as its milieu, not its point. Really a pleasure and worth owning.

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Summary of Clueless (Whatever! Edition)

Jane Austen might never have imagined that her 1816 novel Emma could be turned into a fresh and satirical look at ultra-rich teenagers in a Beverly Hills high school. Cher (Alicia Silverstone) and Dionne (Stacey Dash), both named after "great singers of the past that now do infomercials," are pampered upper-class girls who care less about getting good grades than wearing the right clothes and being as popular as possible. But Cher, who lives with her tough yet warm-hearted lawyer dad (Dan Hedaya) and hunky, sensitive stepbrother (Paul Rudd), also has an innate urge to help those less fortunate ? like the two introverted teachers she brings together ("negotiating" herself improved grades in the process) and new friend Tai (Brittany Murphy), who starts out a geek and ends up a Cher prodigy. Cher also possesses her own sensitive side, and she is looking for the perfect boyfriend, whom she ends up finding where she least expected.

Alicia Silverstone won everyone over with her portrayal of a Beverly Hills teen, Cher, whose penchant for helping others with their relationships and self-esteem is a cover for her own loneliness. Director Amy Heckerling (Fast Times at Ridgemont High) made a smart, funny variation on Jane Austen's novel Emma, sweetly romantic and gently satirical of 90210 social manners. The cast is unbeatable: Dan Hedaya as Cher's rock-solid dad, Wallace Shawn as a geeky teacher, Paul Rudd as the boy who has always been Cher's surrogate brother--and the true holder of her most secret wishes. --Tom Keogh

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