But I'm A Cheerleader (2000)

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Rating: R
Release Date: Jul 7, 2000
Running Time: 81 mins. (V)
Country Of Origin: United States
director: Jamie Babbit
synopsis
Confident and opinionated, 17-year-old Megan is a high school student who has it all. She's popular, pretty, a model student, dates the captain of the football team and is a cheerleader. But she's also a vegetarian, likes Georgia O'Keefe and hates kissing her boyfriend, leading her horrified parents to conclude that she's... a lesbian! Their solution is to send Megan to True Directions, a "rehabilitation camp" run by homophobic counselor Mary Brown. At first, Megan resists "rehabilitation." Then she meets Graham, a sexy tomboy who shows her exactly what her "true direction" is.
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Sweet suburban teen love story with a Sapphic twist.

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Brace yourself, Dr. Laura. This clueless teen queen (Natasha Lyonne) has it all: good looks, a football captain boyfriend and a popular pair of pom-poms. But her candy-colored world crumbles when her panicked parents stage an intervention after finding a Melissa Etheridge poster that leads them to conclude she's a friend of Ellen. After being carted off to an anti-gay rehab camp for teens, the perky princess must choose between the… Continued

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December 11, 2000
But I'm a Cheerleader deserves credit for originality; it's a comedy about a gay-conversion camp. First-time feature director Jamie Babbit shows a flair for actors and visuals -- the film is a nightmarishly comic explosion of pink -- but she's stymied by Brian Wayne Peterson's skin-deep screenplay. Natasha Lyonne stars as Megan, a high school cheerleader whose conservative parents ship her off to True Directions, a deprogramming camp run by the commandantish Mary (Cathy Moriarty). Megan insists… Continued
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cast + crew
Jamie Babbit
Director
Natasha Lyonne
Megan Bloomfield
Clea DuVall
Graham Eaton
Dante Basco
Dolph
RuPaul
Mike
Eddie Cibrian
Rock
Bud Cort
Peter Bloomfield
Melanie Lynskey
Hilary
Wesley Mann
Lloyd
Joel Michaely
Joel
Richard Moll
Larry
Brian Peterson
screenplay
Jamie Babbit
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Jamie Babbit
Story By
Brian Peterson
Screenplay
Andrea Sperling
Producer
Leanna Creel
Producer
Michael Burns
Executive Producer
Marc Butan
Executive Producer

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