Genre: Comedy / Romance Tagline: A Comedy Of Sexual Disorientation Plot Outline: A naive teenager is sent to rehab camp when her straitlaced parents and friends suspect her of being a lesbian.
This is one of those movies I added to my rental queue based solely on the title. I realize that it's generally not a good idea to see a movie without knowing anything about it and not having it recommended by anyone, but I did it anyway. Hopefully, it wouldn't be the same mistake that Kiss of the Spider Woman was.
I figured with a title like this, it would be a light-hearted teen comedy with some gratuitous jiggling; I expected something along the lines of "Porky's" but without being quite as funny.
I noticed on IMDB that this movie was originally given an NC-17 rating but then it was re-cut so that it could get an R rating. The version I reviewed is the R version.
The only actors I recognized were Michelle Williams, RuPaul, and Richard Moll.
The movie starts out with cheerleader Megan Bloomfield making out with her football player boyfriend, but as she's kissing him all she can think about are the other female cheerleaders.
Her bible-banging parents think she's a lesbian because she's trying to get them to eat tofu. Her friends think she is because she has a picture of a woman in her locker and a poster of Melissa Ethridge in her bedroom. Her boyfriend thinks she is because she doesn't like to kiss him (though he is shown to be a horrible kisser).
They send her off to "straight camp" for a couple months.
At her first "therapy" session there's a funny exchange between her and one of the other girls:
"Have you ever had a boyfriend?" --Hilary
"I've been seeing this wonderful guy for two years." --Megan
"Have you ever had sex?" --Hilary
"I'm a christian!" --Megan
"It's easy to be a prude when you're not attracted to him, isn't it?" --Hilary
I especially liked Clea DuVall's character of Graham. She seemed to be written a lot like the short-haired witch from "The Craft". I didn't even recognize her as being from Ghosts of Mars and "The Faculty". I later found it humorous that her first movie was "Little Witches".
The camp is over the top with everything either pink or blue. But everything that is supposed to turn the men straight seems to be phallic-shaped.
The head of the camp has a son who is over-the-top gay. The only question was whether his mother realized it or not. By the end of the film, they still hadn't answered that question.
This wasn't a bad movie, and it had its laughs, but the whole thing seemed like it was written by a couple of high school students in the early 1970s.
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