| | | Sex. Clothes. Popularity. Whatever.
Features: DVD, Widescreen, Aspect Ratio 1.85:1, Dolby Digital (5.1), Dolby Surround Sound, Theatrical Trailers, Featurettes, Game, English, Spanish Subtitled
It's not easy being the most popular and glamorous girl at Beverly Hills High. Especially when you're the envy of scheming Betties (female babes), persistent Barneys (unattractive guys), and teachers who go postal (freak out) when you turn your homework in late! Yet somehow 15-year-old Cher (Alicia Silverstone) keeps it all together, even finding time for extracurricular projects like finding a love match for her debate class teacher (Wallace Shawn), and giving a dowdy friend (Brittany MurphyJustin Walker), and Cher's square but cute "ex-stepbrother" (Paul Rudd). Now Cher is about to learn that when it comes to love, she's...well, Clueless.
"...absolutely perfect..." Jeff Craig, Sixty Second Preview
"...wickedly funny..." Kenneth Turan, Los Angeles Times
"Two thumbs up!" Siskel & Ebert
Editor's Note
A semi-vacuous, though well-dressed, Beverly Hills High student struggles with life, love and unlimited charge cards in this classic teen comedy from the director of FAST TIMES AT RIDGEMONT HIGH. Based, believe it or not, on Jane Austen's 1816 matchmaking comedy EMMA.
Plot Summary
Loosely based on Jane Austen's classic, "Emma," high school teenagers in Beverly Hills (many of whom seem to be named after singers who now do television infomercials) change outfits, have nose jobs and cellular phones, and take care of everybody else's, except their own, social lives.
| Features | 2 Theatrical Trailers | | Audio: English Dolby Digital 5.1 Surround Sound, French Dolby Digital Stereo | | Creative Writing - Director Amy Heckerling Talks About Creating The World Of Clueless | | Driver's Ed - Get Behind The Wheel With The Cast And Crew | | Fashion 101 - How The Filmmakers Invented The Trend-Setting Fashions That Defined The Movie | | How To Play The "Suck 'N Blow" Game - A Tutorial | | Language Arts - Director And Cast Give The 411 On The Groundbreaking Slang In Clueless | | Subtitles: English, Spanish | | The Class Of '95 - A Look At The Cast, Then And Now | | We're History - Stories From The Cast And Crew On The Making Of Clueless | | Widescreen Presentation |
| Technical Info
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Release Information
| | Studio: Paramount |
| Release Date: 5/1/2007 |
| Running Time: 97 minutes |
| Original Release Date: 1995 | | Catalog ID: 050454 | | UPC: 00097360504545 | | Number of Discs: 1 |
Audio & Video
| | Original Language: English | | Available Audio Tracks: English, French Dubbed | | Available Subtitles: English, Spanish | | Video: Color |
Aspect Ratio | | Widescreen 1.78:1 |
| Cast & Crew
| Awards |
MTV Award (1996) |  | Alicia Silverstone, Winner, Best Female Performance | |
National Society Of Film Critics Awards, USA (1995) | | Amy Heckerling, Winner, Best Screenplay |
| Memorable Quotes| "You know how picky I am about my shoes, and they only go on my feet." ---- Cher (ALICIA SILVERSTONE), explaining why she's still a virgin |
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| | Professional Reviews | Premiere
"...[Silverstone is] dead-on....A satirical portrait..." - Recommended 01/01/1996 p.109Rolling Stone
"...Silverstone is a winner. And so is the movie, which also functions as a lunatic update of 'Emma'..." 08/10/1995 p.62-64 USA Today
"...Alicia Silverstone goes to the head of the comedy class as Cher in the oft-hilarious high-school parody CLUELESS....[She] beams throughout..." -- 3 out of 4 stars 07/19/1995 p.1D Variety
"...A fresh, disarmingly bright and at times explosively funny comedy..." Los Angeles Times
"...Clever and amusing....[The] direction is dead-on as well, with every actor in the extensive cast both understanding and responding admirably to the material..." 07/19/1995 p.F1 Chicago Sun-Times
"...CLUELESS is a smart and funny movie, and the characters are in on the joke....It will appeal to anyone who has a sense of humor and an ear for the ironic..." 07/19/1995 p.43 Sight and Sound
"Arguably the CITIZEN KANE of mall-rat movies, Heckerling's savvy transposition of Jane Austen's EMMA to rich-kid California remains a delight." 02/01/2006 p.87 San Francisco Chronicle 8 of 10
As near to a female Wayne's World as anyone might venture...writer-director Amy Heckerling's Clueless hits funny bones in its delicious satire of ditzy shopping- mall material girls a la Beverly Hills. The film stars San Francisco-born Alicia Silverstone (The Crush) as a 16-year-old, shallow-brained, control freak named Cher. Cher's main goals are cosmetic makeovers of everything and everybody. But she finally gets made over herself -- by love -- in this intelligently playful teen parody that is biting without being bitchy. Silverstone proves herself a major talent in the film. She's a vixen one minute, a whiny twit the next, a self-absorbed brat or a vulnerable young woman learning to deal with a longing heart. Silverstone's comic energy keeps Clueless moving. One of the curious delights of the film is how verbal it is. Heckerling (Fast Times at Ridgemont High and the Look Who's Talking series) wrote the screenplay as though her ear were wired to the high school community. She captures the essence of teen-speak, especially its glib jibes and prickly put-downs, so well that you feel as though you're eavesdropping... - Peter Stack
USA Today 7 of 10
With a star-is-born luster that's a cross between a newly hatched chick and a just-exfoliated Meg Ryan, Alicia Silverstone goes to the head of the comedy class as Cher in the oft-hilarious high-school parody Clueless. Director Amy Heckerling's 1982 Fast Times at Ridgemont High was a docu-sharp youth barometer. Clued-in Clueless is a sunnier take on a higher income bracket, and Silverstone beams throughout... Silverstone guilelessly glides through her role like a Pam-sprayed charge card. She isn't happy unless she manipulates her world: doing makeovers on out-of-it students, renegotiating her grades or playing matchmaker. She's shallow, self-absorbed, surface smart (all she knows about Shakespeare comes from Mel Gibson movies) but without a mean bone in her non-fat, routinely massaged, aerobically lean body. The film bobs along like a designer balloon, pumped with wry observations on Marky Mark and Mentos ads. But none of the other cartoonish characters command like twinkly Silverstone... - Susan Wloszcyna
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