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St Trinian's (2007)
Director: Oliver Parker, Barnaby Thompson
Synopsis
St Trinian's is the school for young ladies and it is once again facing dire financial crisis with the bank threatening closure. Headmistress Camilla Fritton is also in the firing line from the Education Minister as she espouses an unorthodox doctrine of self-empowerment and free expression. In order to save the school, the St Trinian's girls decide to put their differences aside and hatch a plan to come up with cash. The leaders of the gang, Kelly (Gemma Arterton) and Annabelle (Talulah Riley) decide that a heist is the only way forward, and so decide to steal Vermeer’s ‘Girl with the Pearl Earring’ painting from the National Gallery.
Movie review
From Time Out London
This ultra-glossy, twenty-first-century update of the original series of films about the anarchic student body of the titular ‘ladies school’ comes bounding off the screen like a feature-length ad for Top Shop. Out go any radical notions of female social upheaval and in come clumsy drug jokes, broad stereotypes and reams-upon-reams of thudding pop music. The lead performances from the young cast are generally weak (apart from an excellent Jodie Whittaker) and the script is a tiresome mulch of self-conscious cultural references. Not even a camp-as-Christmas turn from Rupert Everett as effete headmistress Camilla Fritton is enough to salvage this mess, which drifts aimlessly towards a tawdry heist finale that will only make sense to those with the ability to bump their own brain-patterns to the level of sub-moronic torpor. The one-dimensional, any-excuse-for-a-musical-montage direction does, admittedly, inject some much-needed zip into the proceedings, but in terms of a cultural legacy, this is one to file next to ‘Spiceworld: The Movie’.Author: David Jenkins
Time Out London
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- Ada said...
- Posted on Jul 23 2011 11:32 You people must be SICK to think it's no good! BEST FILM EVER MADE!!! :D Love St Trinians! <3 xx
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- San san said...
- Posted on Sep 16 2010 18:19 BEST film ever cromey u r rong
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- Boris Jonson said...
- Posted on Feb 28 2010 21:43 Colin Firth, you should be ashamed of yourself. How much were you paid for your pride. [no pun intended]The film, if you could call it that, is rubbish and anyone who paid to see it should get there money back.
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- katie said...
- Posted on Nov 20 2009 20:41 i realli like the film dosnt every1 wish that all schools 4 girls were like that wi no RULEZ !!!!!!!!!! xx
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- CROMEY said...
- Posted on May 01 2009 12:23 Why am i talking to myself
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- CROMEY said...
- Posted on May 01 2009 12:20 I DIDNT LIKE IT. I HATED IT AND I PUT MY NAME IN CAPS ANYWAY
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- cromey said...
- Posted on May 01 2009 12:18 I love it really
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- Salad said...
- Posted on May 01 2009 12:18 This cromey man is silly
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- broccoli_brains said...
- Posted on May 01 2009 12:18 I hate cromeys comments there so mean he is mean
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- CROMEY said...
- Posted on May 01 2009 12:13 TRINIAN FAN U MUST BE BLIND AND DEF 2 THINK IT WAS GOOD
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- Trinian fan said...
- Posted on May 01 2009 12:12 Loved it
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- broccoli_brains said...
- Posted on May 01 2009 12:10 There incredible
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- CROMEY said...
- Posted on May 01 2009 12:10 IT WAS HILARIOUSLY CRAP
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- broccoli_brains said...
- Posted on May 01 2009 12:09 I love it so much they so amazing
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- CROMEY said...
- Posted on May 01 2009 12:06 DIS FILM WAS DA WORST FILM IVE SEEN IN AGES AND IVE SEEN ALOT OF FILMS. + U LIKE DA HEAD MISTRESS 2!!!!
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Cast & crew
Director: Oliver Parker, Barnaby Thompson
Cast: Rupert Everett, Colin Firth, Jodie Whittaker, Lena Headey, Russell Brand, Stephen Fry, Celia Imrie, Caterina Murino, Gemma Arterton, Tamsin Egerton, Amara Karan, Antonia Bernath, Juno Temple, Lucy Punch, Anna Chancellor, Talulah Riley full cast
Genre(s): Comedy
Duration: 101 mins
UK Release: Dec 21 2007
US Release: Oct 9 2009
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