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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 Jun 16 2008 13:49 i like the flim like the gla in it
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- Gillian said...
- Posted on Apr 28 2008 13:16 really enjoyed this film glad people enjoyed it as much as me even got the dvd great stuff
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- Laura Dawson said...
- Posted on Apr 24 2008 20:38 i think this film was great i dont know about anybody else but i think it was fab and really funny! i think the report was terriable whoever wrote is a sad old meanie and needs to think about it from a kids point of view!! i mean come on it was no were near as bad as the report has put it at! i thoroughly enjoyed it and would love to get it on dvd! i have watched it four times and think it is great!!
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Posted on Apr 21 2008 18:56
i watched this film when it came out in the cinema...and hated every minute.
waste of money - Report as inappropriate
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- usman khawaja said...
- Posted on Apr 21 2008 18:51 terriffic fun and a must see-rupertt is a genius of an actor and the comedyis divine -great british satire
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- fee said...
- Posted on Mar 22 2008 09:15 it is so funny, i wanna get it on d.v.d! lol.
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- Janine said...
- Posted on Mar 21 2008 10:49 I have seen clips of it an it looks ded good im seein it late with me mate i cant wait
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- JADE said...
- Posted on Mar 08 2008 17:04 VERY GOOD FILM LOVE TO SEE IT AGAIN, ME AND MY FRIEND THOUGHT IT WAS EXCELENT
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- Benny said...
- Posted on Mar 08 2008 15:22 Great.. Does anyone knowwhen it is coming out on DVD??
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- chris said...
- Posted on Feb 24 2008 11:54 what would you give this film out 10?
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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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