Easy A is a modern twist on the classic novel The Scarlet Letter, and it’s a nice throwback to all the 80’s teen comedies like Can’t Buy Me Love and The Breakfast Club. A standout performance by up and coming actress Emma Stone elevates this comedy above most in the genre.
Olive is a beautiful, smart and self-assured high school student who suffers the same fate of all gorgeous ladies in romantic comedies-she can’t get a date. Yeah, right. Olive spends her Saturday nights at home singing to her dog. Rather than fess up to that fact, she tells her best friend that she was out with a college boy, and implies that she lost her virginity.
Word of the (pretend) coupling travels quickly via texting and such, and Olive is soon rebuked by the females at the school for being the school slut. At the same time, she has a new found popularity with the men, who believe they might have a shot at her.
When her best male friend (who is gay) waffles on whether to come out of the closet or not, she urges him to wait until after high school. They concoct a plan to silence his tormentors; she’ll pretend to sleep with him and everyone will think he is straight.
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