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starring: Natasha Lyonne, Clea DuVall, Michelle Williams, Brandt Wille, Bud Cortdirected by: Jamie Babbit
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Aspect Ratio: 1.85:1
Audience Rating: R (Restricted)
Binding: DVD
Brand: Lions Gate
EAN: 9781588178008
Format: Closed-captioned, Color, DVD-Video, Widescreen, NTSC
ISBN: 1588178005
Label: Lions Gate
Manufacturer: Lions Gate
Number Of Items: 1
Publisher: Lions Gate
Region Code: 1
Release Date: July 22, 2003
Running Time: 85 minutes
Sales Rank: 4944
Studio: Lions Gate
Theatrical Release Date: 1999
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Editorial Review:
Product Description:
Megan has it all. Shes popular pretty a model student dates the captain of the football team and shes a cheerleader. Everything seems perfect but the fun begins when her hormones start to rage and her friends and family wonder where shell find love. Studio: Lions Gate Home Ent. Release Date: 02/01/2005 Starring: Clea Cuvall Rupaul Charles Run time: 83 minutes Rating: R Director: Eddie Babbit
Amazon.com:
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 clichés 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
Customer Reviews
Average Rating: 
Rating:  - Reparative Comedy-- Laughs Won Out
"But I'm a Cheerleader" is a campy,sardonic take on the "ex-gay" camps for youngsters. Megan (Natasha Lyonne) realizes she's noticing her fellow squad members more than her footballer boyfriend,and her parents, Bud Cort (of "Harold and Maude") and Mink Stole along with Michelle Williams (of "Brokeback Mountain") stage an intervention. Megan is driven off,unwillingly,to True Directions,where girls wear pink and boys wear blue. The nasty Mary (a hilarious Cathy Moriarty) is in charge,with her son Rock ... Read More
Rating: - Heartbreaking Humor
"But I'm a Cheerleader"
Heartbreaking Humor
Amos Lassen
Megan is an all American teenager; she is a cheerleader, she has a boyfriend. There is a little problem though--she doesn't like kissing her beau. She is also touchy with her cheerleader friends and in her locker are pictures of girls. Her friends and parents think she must be gay and she is sent off to True Directions, a sexual redirection camp which is bulging with homosexuals. She must learn to be straight. ... Read More
Rating:  - a movie for... not everyone
I don't know why it is, but I LOVE this movie. The first time I watched it was about seven years ago, and it still holds up rather nicely. The storyline is just as silly as you've probably read from the description, but totally worth watching because of the highly enjoyable storyline (not to mention maintaining an interesting and creative flow for the entire running time).
Extremely concerned parents send their daughter to a place where they are hoping the people there can remove their daughters ... Read More
Rating: - 2.5 stars out of 4
The Bottom Line:
A sometimes cutting, mostly just cute lesbian variation on the teen flick, But I'm a Cheerleader is diverting but not especially good.
Rating: - But I'm a Cheerleader
This movie is so funny! Its the most weirdest coming out story ever. A movie every lesbian much watch.
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