Picking Nits
Eighth-grade flashback; mom's dress; party room offer; party scene; dark plea; 11th-grade sex as news; Facebook timeline
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- Tied first nit: the heroine being so surprised that the character called Dan Humphreys remembers eighth grade, only about three years earlier.
- Casting younger actors for the flashback but using Emma Stone's voice is also stupid.
- Agreement: teen-movie flashbacks to sixth grade are hard to take, and the boy would obviously remember a failed closet kiss.
- Nobody believes Patricia Clarkson's character owns the tiny hot dress the heroine says is her mom's.
- No entitled rich girl would offer her own room for sex at the party. — Amanda Dobbins
- The party scene is the trickiest, especially the don't-mess-up-my-sheets line; the sounds are unbelievable, though the ridiculousness is played for comedy over a heavy premise of a gay student pretending to be straight.
- Brandon's plea that he does not know what he might do gets dark fast; the movie skirts darkness without going there.
- An 11th grader having sex would not be big news.
- Once the rumors are all over Facebook and adults know, it would be shut down in two days, not two weeks; the Facebook material is not as well done as the YouTube material.