| | | A comedy of sexual disorientation.
Features: DVD
But I'm A Cheerleader is a comical tale about a beautiful young high school girl with a seemingly perfect life. When her popular friends, straight-laced parents and her cute boyfriend of two years suspect that she is looking for love in all the wrong places, they arrange an intervention meeting and send her off to a rehab camp. When she arrives, Megan is surrounded by pretty girls and cute guys, and with teenage hormones raging anything can happen. And it does.
"A very funny movie!" Roger Ebert, Roger Ebert At The Movies
Editor's Note
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.
Plot Summary
When Megan (Natasha Lyonne), a popular high school cheerleader, is accused by her family of being gay, she doesn't know how to respond. Her parents send her to True Directions, a homosexual rehabilitation camp where she does her best to please the counselors and return to heterosexuality. But when Graham (Clea DuVall) arrives, a proud lesbian who's only attending the camp to retain her trust fund, Megan begins to question all the lessons she has learned up to that point. This absurd comedy boldly connects humor with romance in a highly original fashion.
| Features | Widescreen Version Enhanced For 16X9 TV's | | Audio: English Dolby Digital Surround | | Scene Access | | Theatrical Trailer | | Interactive Menus |
| Technical Info
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Release Information
| | Studio: Trimark |
| Release Date: 7/22/2003 |
| Running Time: 90 minutes |
| Original Release Date: 1999 | | Catalog ID: 8348-D | | UPC: 00031398834823 | | Number of Discs: 1 |
Audio & Video
| | Original Language: English | | Available Audio Tracks: English | | Available Subtitles: English, Spanish | | Video: Color |
Aspect Ratio | | 1.85:1 |
| Cast & Crew
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| | Professional Reviews | New York Times
"...[Lyonne] delivers a real performance..." 07/07/2000 p.E10Sight and Sound
"...Likeable....[With] warm performances....Pleasingly brisk..." 03/01/2001 p.41-2 Rolling Stone
"...Jamie Babbit shows a flair for actors and visuals..." 08/03/2000 p.62 Chicago Sun-Times
"...Heartfelt and sweet....[Lyonne] is a likable heroine....And Cathy Moriarty brings great comic relief to her role..." 07/14/2000 p.33 San Francisco Chronicle 7 of 10
...funny, but it's not only funny. Though colorful and campy, the picture manages to make a heartfelt statement about the difficulties of growing up gay... Lyonne is wonderful and up to the demands of both the comedy and the sentiment... - Mick LaSalle
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