: All I Wanna Do
Strange title that sounds like a throw-away teeneybopper flick, but turns out to be a compelling film about girls at a prep school in the 1950s. Kirsten Dunst has the best role of seen her in: she’s the leader of a rebellious group and has all the clever ways around the school rules, but deep down she’s lonely and hurting and by the end of the film she’s changed and matured. What’s interesting about that is that she’s not the main character. No, that’s a girl who’s sent to the prep school as a punishment and hates everything about it, but eventually, when the school is threatened with merging with a boy’s school, she becomes a voice of the students who lead a rebellion protesting the move. Not a complex film, and there are a few stereotypes among the supporting cast, but pleasant, interesting, with witty dialog and excellent story structure. I liked it a great deal.
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