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DIRTY BUSINESS.(Pretty Persuasion)(Movie Review)
Kimberly Joyce (Evan Rachel Wood), the high-school vamp and evil genius in the new satirical comedy "Pretty Persuasion," tells her protegee, Randa (Adi Schnall), an Arab emigree, that she, Kimberly, is glad she is white. Then she wonders what she would choose to be if she had to be something else. For Randa's benefit, she lists the possibilities in her order of preference: first Asian, then African-American (as long as she could have "Caucasian features," like Halle Berry), ending with Arab. Randa listens quietly, wide-eyed. The kids in "Pretty Persuasion" are perhaps the most barbaric group of bad seeds gathered together in recent movies. They turn candor into a form of ...
- Pretty persuasive: fresh from edgy roles in Once and Again and Thirteen, Evan...
- Magazine article from: The Advocate (The national gay & lesbian newsmagazine) Vary, Adam B. August 30, 2005 700+ words
...versed in hard-edged, hot button-pushing cinema as Evan Rachel Wood--her fearless performances as an innocent girl gone terribly...s Thirteen horrified parents everywhere--her work in Pretty Persuasion as Beverly Hills prep school sophomore Kimberly Joyce was...
- Pretty Persuasion.(Movie Review)(Brief Article)
- Magazine article from: Interview Wilson, Karen September 1, 2005 700+ words
REVIEW: PRETTY PERSUASION (Samuel Goldwyn) Directed by Marcos Siega Evan Rachel Wood has led quite an adventurous onscreen life...herself in the face. In Marcos Siega's Pretty Persuasion, a Heathers-style satire, she again titillates...
- Pretty Persuasion.(Video Recording Review)
- Magazine article from: Video Business Slifkin, Irv October 31, 2005 700+ words
...First Run: L.Aug 2005, <$ 1 mil. Cast: Evan Rachel Wood (Thirteen), James Woods (Be Cool), Ron Livingston...reminiscent in spots of Election, Clueless and the recent Havoc, Pretty Persuasion takes a skewered look at self-absorbed adults and their...
- Preem's 'Pretty' packed.('Pretty Persuasion')(Brief Article)
- Magazine article from: Daily Variety Paskin, Willa August 4, 2005 700+ words
With "Pretty Persuasion" set for a big bow next week in Los Angeles, the Gen Art-sponsored...fairly low-key, with only helmer Marcos Siega and thesps Evan Rachel Wood and Elisabeth Harnois on hand to rep the film. Siega told the...
- Not so pretty in pink.(curvatures)(sexual harassment scene from Pretty...
- Magazine article from: Curve Anderson-Minshall, Diane August 1, 2005 700+ words
...S A LESBIAN MOMENT SO shockingly funny in the new film Pretty Persuasion that you'll want to sneak back into the theater again...No, I won't spoil it for you.) In Pretty, Evan Rachel Wood (a veteran of Sapphic scenes in the hit indie film Thirteen...
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- Magazine article from: Playthings April 1, 2007 700+ words
By Tina Benitez Sweet and innocent still strike a chord in the doll category Touch is so important. And so Theresa Manahan, owner of The Wishing Well Toy Co., a toy shop in Omaha, Neb., always makes sure she has an open sample of each doll she sells; for business, that's all she needs. When it
- Everybody into the pool: in the wake of last year's hit parade, buyers feel...
- Magazine article from: Daily Variety Mohr, Ian Swart, Sharon January 19, 2005 700+ words
...Daniels, Laura Linney, Anna Paquin), "Nine Lives" (Glenn Close, Dakota Fanning, Holly Hunter), "Pretty Persuasion" (Evan Rachel Wood, James Woods). And some of the titles could benefit from a hip pedigree behind the camera, from the...
- Comden pitch 'Amazing' U.(Brief Article)
- Magazine article from: Daily Variety Harris, Dana September 27, 2004 700+ words
...developing the musical "Time After Time" at the studio. Comden most recently starred on the ABC comedy "I'm With Her," produced by Tollin/Robbins and WBTV. He just wrapped a starring role in "Pretty Persuasion" opposite Evan Rachel Wood.