Saved! (2004)
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Product Details: Saved! (2004)
- Edition:
- DVD .
- MPAA Rating:
- PG-13
- Release Date:
- 10/05/2004
- UPC:
- 027616902832
- Directed by:
- Brian Dannelly
- Featuring:
- Jena Malone, Macaulay Culkin, Mandy Moore. See all cast
Synopsis: Saved! (2004)
Synopis: "Good girl" Mary (Jena Malone) and her popular, influential best friend, Hilary Faye (Mandy Moore), are starting their senior year at the top of the social structure at American Christian High School. But when Mary finds out she’s pregnant, Hilary Faye and her devoted "disciples" turn against Mary and the school labels her an outcast. It's as an outsider, however, that Mary finds true friends – other students the school doesn't quite know what to do with. In this sweetly subversive comedy, a group of strangers band together to navigate the treacherous halls of high school and make it to graduation, ultimately learning more about themselves and finding out what it truly means to be Saved!.Features: Saved! (2004)
Features: DVD Features:Region (unknown)
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Full Frame - 1.33
Additional Release Material:
Original Theatrical Trailer
Commentaries: 1. Mandy Moore and Jena Malone
2. Brian Dannelly
3. Sandy Stern
4. Michael Urban
Featurettes
Deleted Scenes
Extented Scenes
Never-Before-Scene Bloopers
Outtakes
Easter Egg
Saved Revelations
User Reviews: Saved!
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DVD Review: Saved (2004)
, September 2, 2006Reviewer: Gary - See all Gary's reviews -
Maybe no exclamation point...
, May 26, 2005Reviewer: Ezzy - See all Ezzy's reviewsPros: The acting, and everything else about it
Cons: NOTHING
i love this movie so much that i watch it like every night. jena malone does such a good job of being "real" with her acting and puts you in perspective i love it so much.plus the other cast members are incredible:ofcourse mandy moore is incredible and so good, patrick fugit is so shy and quiet and cute, and macaulay culkin is ...well still as awesome as he was when i grew up watching him.brian dannely...good work man. ...
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Pros: Finely tuned satire
Cons: Avoids any controversy regarding abortion issue
I just got around to seeing this charmingly perverse and subversive little jewel. Though comedies dealing with alienation in high school come a dime-a-dozen, Saved manages to hook viewers with a twist in the formula: its setting is a private, Christian high school, and, with only a couple of notable exceptions, everyone involved is proudly, and pompusly, a fundamentalist. However, this is not the idyll of your Catholic schoolgirl fantasies (though the short khaki skirts are intriguing), this institution is the diluted, pop-culture saturated (though twisted), suburbanized, homogenized haven of the Christian Right (White?).
Our protagonist is a sweetly innocent, true believer played with wonderful sincerity by Jena Malone. During the summer between her junior and senior years at American Eagle Christian High School, Mary (Malone) is confronted with the news that "her perfect Christian boyfriend" fears that he is gay. After an injury-induced vision of Jesus convinces her that she must "save" her beau from the love that dare not speak it's name, she bequeths to Dean (Chad Faust) her physical virginity (having been assured by a friend that with proper prayer, she can regain her "spiritual" virginity). Convinced that she has done as Christ would wish, she is dismayed to learn that on the first day of the new school year, Dean has been sent away to a home for wayward youth in order to be de-gayified. Stung & alone, she is further shocked to realize that she is now also pregnant (Trojans making better condoms than Israelites, it would seem).
Making her predicament all the worse are the machinations of friend & hyper-Christian Hilary Faye (Mandy Moore, in a spot-on performance). Leader of a "Heathers" like clique, the Christian Jewels, she is the epitome of self-assured, self-aggrandizing, clueless moral certitude so prevalent amongst fundamentalists in their teens & twenties, Hilary Faye is determined to be Christ's favorite teen, and woe to anyone who stands between her and her neon-lit Calvary.
Mary, meanwhile, is befriended, aided & abetted in concealing her pregnancy from all concerned by Hilary Faye's Jewish nemesis, Eva Amurri & MacCauley Culkin, who turns in a subtle performance as Hilary Faye's wheelchair-bound younger brother.
Over the course of the movie, the scales fall away from Mary's eyes, allowing her to see that faith is not excuse for exclusion, and that those who are riddled with sin are all too often willing to cast the first stone. With a climax that occurs at the senior prom and a denoument involving the birth of Mary's child, many sacred cows find their way to the metaphorical abbatoir.
Though dismissed by many critics and viewers as mean-spirited and one-sided, Saved never fails to treat real faith with respect. Even as an agnostic, I can respect another's faith, just not when it is used as a weapon for exclusion and a facade for hate. The producers of Saved manage to tread a fine line and 90 minutes of finely honed snark is their (and our) reward. ...