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Bookmark this pageSt 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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- Posted on May 01 2009 11:59 IT WAS A PIECE OF SHIT!!!!!
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- Glossy said...
- Posted on Apr 07 2009 09:16 GREAT FILM!!!! i don't care what critics say1 the best way to understand a movies is o look at it from a viewers point! not a critics! this was a great movie
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Posted on Jan 01 2009 12:40
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- Posted on Dec 31 2008 23:49 i think the film is so fantastic, iv seen it god knows how many times and its still great, defonatly my favourite film cant wait for number 2 to come out! and i also think gemma arterton & rupert everett are really good in it aswell xx
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- Caitlin said...
- Posted on Oct 23 2008 16:21 fab film
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- Caitlin said...
- Posted on Oct 23 2008 16:21 fab film
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- nicki said...
- Posted on Aug 09 2008 08:06 ohh my god that is the best movie in the hole world man it's awsome
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- Rain said...
- Posted on Jul 22 2008 23:30 Stop trying to sound intellegent. The issue back when (Bells of) Saint Trinians was released was female indipendence. The new pressing issue is the 'cliques' in youth culture bonding together and thats what the movie addresses. Plus, it references alot of British films, the music rocks, the cast is amazing, and it's fekkin' hallerious.
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- ellie said...
- Posted on Jun 19 2008 21:28 hi can u not add my i anit in to oz i like girls but i no amalee lieks boiz so u can add her xxxx i think the girls in dis r relly fit
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- Posted on Jun 16 2008 18:56 love st triannians i think its a great film bye xxx stacey
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- Posted on Jun 16 2008 14:04 i am a bad boi love the fit gis in it xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
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- ellie said...
- Posted on Jun 16 2008 14:00 ello ello ello...ellie in da house...lovein dis flim think is great i think the girls are relly **** love it i am a ***
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- Posted on Jun 16 2008 13:54 love dis film in it its great seen it before i love the girls and actors in it loves ya people salma bxxx
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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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