The Truth About Jane
by Lee Rose
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Actor: Ellen Muth, Jenny O'Hara, Kelly Rowan, RuPaul, Stockard ChanningDirector: Lee Rose
Cinematographer: Eric Van Haren Noman
Writer: Lee Rose
Editor: Peter V. White
Producer: Orly Adelson
DVD: Region Code 1
Audio: English (Unknown); English (Original Language)
Format: Color, DVD, NTSC
Picture Format: 1.33:1
Running Time: 91 minutes
DVD Release Date: 2002-04-09
Audience Rating: NR (Not Rated)
Studio: Starlight Home Entertainment
Movie Reviews of The Truth About Jane
Movie Review: Teacher of the Year
Summary: 5 Stars
After watching DEAD LIKE ME for two seasons we knew Ellen Muth's cracked honeycomb of a voice, and flicking through the channels we wondered if this was some "lost episode" of DEAD LIKE ME but instead, we saw Stockard Channing as her mother instead of that cold hearted Cynthia Stevenson, so we settled in for the duration to see how DEAD LIKE ME would have played out if Georgia had been a lesbian, and if her mother had been Rizzo from GREASE. There's one point in THE TRUTH ABOUT JANE when you will swear Stockard Channing feels compelled to belt out "There Are Worse Things I Can Do," especially when her daughter asks her if she graduated from high school without having sex.
Another star of note is the exquisite Kelly Rowan, who later went on to play Kirsten Cohen on The O.C. Here she looks even more fabulous if that's possible as the dedicated high school English teacher. She acts so totally real you could swear she was a real teacher, except for one thing, she is too chic. In her little black cocktail dress and a perfect white shell cardigan, and little black heels, she is the teacher of a young girl's dreams. In the story of the movie, Jane is having a terrible time of it trying to come to terms with a new found desure to be with Taylor, the new girl in town, 24 hours a day. Taylor's mom is a complete psycho and beats her up all the time. However for sheer human awfulness, there's no one quite like poor Jane's younger brother Brad.
First he spies on Taylor and Jane while they are kissing. Then he tells everyone at school so that Jane becomes the victim of virulent homophobia and her parents wind up getting anonymous phone calls informing them that their daughter is having an affair with a female classmate! Stockard Channing doesn't know who to believe. Though she's a cool mom in many ways, she's also rigid as a fencepost when it comes to Jane and her sexuality. She's certain Jane is straight and can't see it any other way.
Luckily the divine Kelly Rowan is in Jane's corner. I'm not surprised that this movie led to bigger and better parts for La Rowan, it is the dictionary definition of a breakout part.
And now, can anyone tell me what happened to our wonderful Ellen Muth? She seems to have fallen right off the face of the earth ever since wrapping up DEAD LIKE ME.
She was looking pretty haggard during the last episodes of the series, and hopefully she's getting a bit of a "rest."
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