Clueless

Clueless
Clueless
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Directed by	Amy Heckerling
Written by	Amy Heckerling
Produced by	Scott Rudin; Robert Lawrence;
Starring	Alicia Silverstone
Narrated by	Alicia Silverstone
Cinematography	Bill Pope
Edited by	Debra Chiate
Music by	David Kitay
Production; companies	Robert Lawrence Productions; Scott Rudin Productions;
Distributed by	Paramount Pictures
Release date	July 19, 1995;
Running time	97 minutes
Country	United States
Language	English
Budget	$12 million
Box office	$88 million

Clueless is a 1995 American romantic teen comedy movie set in Beverly Hills, California. It is loosely based on Jane Austen's 1815 book Emma. It was written and directed by Amy Heckerling.

It stars Alicia Silverstone, Paul Rudd, Stacey Dash and Brittany Murphy as 15 year old high school classmates. Clueless was released in the United States on July 19, 1995,

Plot of Clueless revolves around the life of American sixteen-year-old girl Cher Horowitz. She is pretty and attractive, but clueless and selfish. Apart from that she is extremely rich and popular in her high school. Only a few things are important for Cher: fashion, mansion in which she lives with her father and her friend Dionne, who is also rich and self-confident. She has a former stepbrother Josh, with whom she always has quarrels for no reason at all.

Cher’s selfishness is totally innocent and safe for surrounding people. For example, she tries to bring together two teachers, who gave her bad marks, - Mr. Hall and Mrs. Gaste. She achieves this aim and benefits. When Cher sees those two fall in love and her marks become better, she understands that she likes to do good things.

Cher decides to make the next good thing on her list helping a new “duckling girl” Tie to transform into a beautiful swan. She also helps her to adapt in a new place and prevent her from communicating with the guy, who smokes weed and does skateboarding. Instead of that, she wants Tie to date with a rich snob Elton, but Cher does not realize that Elton fancies not Tie, but herself.

Suddenly some troubles appear in Cher’s life. She does not realize, that boy whom she tries to seduce is actually gay, until Dionne opens her naive eyes. Cher fails driving test and when she comes back home Tai says that she is keen on Josh. In reply Cher says to her, that they do not match and they have a quarrel.

After revaluation of values Cher finds out, that she loves Josh. She tries to be better, kinder and smarter. The final scene shows, that Josh admits he loves Cher too and they kiss.

Soon after release of the movie a Clueless sequel was filmed (it was in form of TV series) and a series of books was produced.

References

↑ "Clueless (12)". British Board of Film Classification. July 28, 1995. Archived from the original on July 21, 2015. Retrieved July 19, 2015.
↑ "Clueless | PowerGrid". TheWrap. July 17, 2015. Archived from the original on July 21, 2015. Retrieved 18 July 2015.
↑ "International Star Chart". Screen International. 5 September 1997. pp. 16–17.

Other websites

Clueless on IMDb
Clueless at Letterboxd

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[1] "Clueless (12)". British Board of Film Classification. July 28, 1995. Archived from the original on July 21, 2015. Retrieved July 19, 2015.

[2] "Clueless | PowerGrid". TheWrap. July 17, 2015. Archived from the original on July 21, 2015. Retrieved 18 July 2015.

[ww-3] "International Star Chart". Screen International. 5 September 1997. pp. 16–17.

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