But I'm a Cheerleader R

A Comedy Of Sexual Disorientation.
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  • Rated: R
  • Run Time: 1 hours, 30 minutes
  • Video: Color
  • Encoding: Region 1 (USA & Canada)
  • Released: July 22, 2003
  • Originally Released: 1999
  • Label: Lions Gate

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Rotten39%

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Total Count: 83

Upright74%

AUDIENCE SCORE
User Ratings: 40,874
Rating: 2.5/4 -- First-time feature director Jamie Babbit's pink-drenched comedy is amusing and good-natured, but necessarily thin. Full Review
New York Daily News
Mar 31, 2019
But I'm a Cheerleader often leans too hard on stereotypes in reaching for its laughs, but Lyonne and DuVall, who plays the tomboy Lyonne falls for, give nervy, on-target performances. Full Review
People Magazine
Mar 31, 2019
But I'm a Cheerleader is a smug little comedy that tries to mock other people's self-righteousness while ignoring its own. Full Review
CNN.com
Mar 31, 2019
...Jamie Babbit shows a flair for actors and visuals...
Rolling Stone
Aug 3, 2000
Rating: 2/4 -- But I'm a Cheerleader fizzles out of fresh ideas early on. Full Review
Chicago Tribune
Mar 31, 2019
...[Lyonne] delivers a real performance...
New York Times
Jul 7, 2000
...Likeable....[With] warm performances....Pleasingly brisk...
Sight and Sound
Mar 1, 2001

Product Description:

The girls wear pink and the boys wear blue in BUT I'M A CHEERLEADER, a film billed as a comedy about sexual disorientation. Megan (Natasha Lyonne) is a happy-go-lucky cheerleading teenager in the suburbs when suddenly her fairly normal behavior (vegetarianism, Melissa Etheridge poster, reluctance to make out with her boyfriend) makes her suspect in the eyes of the community. Megan's super straightlaced parents (Mink Stole of John Waters fame and Bud Cort from HAROLD AND MAUDE), fearing that their precious "little poodle" may be a lesbian, promptly ship a befuddled Megan off to True Directions, a homosexual rehabilitation facility. Unable to take the first step required by the program--admitting that she is in fact gay--Megan butts heads with camp leaders Mary (Cathy Moriarty) and Mike (RuPaul out of drag). Soon enough, Megan finds proof of her heretofore unknown attraction to girls when she falls for Graham (Clea DuVall), a sexy tomboy and fellow inmate at True Directions. Megan's brightly colored and slightly unreal world gets even odder as an unlikely romance blossoms in the least likely of places. As Graham and Megan grow closer, the film's unique comic twists and visual stylization expose the absurd nature of society's rigid social and sexual codes and create an endearing and hysterically funny love story at the same time.

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  • Sales Rank: 39,433
  • UPC: 031398834823
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