But I'm a Cheerleader
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| But I'm a Cheerleader | |
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| Directed by | Jamie Babbit |
| Produced by | Leanna Creel |
| Written by | Jamie Babbit (story) Brian Wayne Peterson (screenplay) |
| Starring | Natasha Lyonne Cathy Moriarty Bud Cort Mink Stole RuPaul Clea DuVall Dante Basco |
| Music by | Pat Irwin |
| Cinematography | Jules Labarthe |
| Editing by | Cecily Rhett |
| Distributed by | Universal Home Entertainment |
| Release date(s) | 1999 |
| Running time | 85 min. |
| Country | United States |
| Language | English |
| Budget | $1,200,000 |
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But I'm a Cheerleader is a 1999 black comedy satire film directed by Jamie Babbit about a high school cheerleader, Megan Bloomfield (Natasha Lyonne), who is sent to a reparative therapy camp.
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[edit] Plot
Megan is sent to a reparative therapy camp, run by Mary Brown (Cathy Moriarty), to become a heterosexual after her friends and family have an "intervention" and tell her she is a lesbian, a fact she realizes and comes to terms with at the camp.
During the film, various activities and therapies are employed to try to change the characters, both male and female, into heterosexuals. During the process, Megan and another attendee, Graham Eaton (Clea DuVall), fall in love.
[edit] Cast
- Natasha Lyonne as Megan Bloomfield
- Clea DuVall as Graham Eaton
- Cathy Moriarty as Mary J. Brown
- RuPaul as Mike
- Mink Stole as Nancy Bloomfield
- Bud Cort as Peter Bloomfield
- Melanie Lynskey as Hilary Vandermuller
- Joel Michaely as Joel Goldberg
- Kip Pardue as Clayton Dunn
- Katharine Towne as Sinead Laren
- Douglas Spain as Andre
- Eddie Cibrian as Rock Brown
- Dante Basco as Dolph
- Katrina Phillips as Jan
- Richard Moll as Larry Morgan-Gordon
- Julie Delpy as lipstick lesbian
- Wesley Mann as Lloyd Morgan-Gordon
- Brandt Wille as Jared
- Michelle Williams as Kimberly
[edit] Rating
When originally submitted to the MPAA rating board, the film received an NC-17 rating. In order to achieve a commercially-viable R rating the director was forced to remove a single scene where a fully clothed woman masturbates.
[edit] Reception
The film grossed $2,199,853.
The film won the Audience Award and Graine de Cinéphage Award of Créteil International Women's Film Festival. It was nominated by the Political Film Society of America for the PFS award in the category of human rights.
Critical response to the film was mixed. While some critics were very appreciative of the film's execution and tone[1], others found it to be "over-stereotyped"[2] and "cartoonish"[3]
