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Easy A (stylized as easy A) is a 2010 teen comedy film written by Bert V. Royal, directed by Will Gluck, and starring Emma Stone. The screenplay was partially inspired by the novel The Scarlet Letter. The film was shot at Screen Gems studios and in Ojai, California. Screen Gems distributed with a release on September 17, 2010 (2010-09-17). It was released on DVD and Blu-ray Disc December 21, 2010.
The film was a box office success and received critical acclaim, particularly for Emma Stone's performance.
Olive Penderghast (Emma Stone) lies to her best friend Rhiannon (Alyson Michalka) about going on a date in order to get out of camping with Rhi's hippie parents. Instead, she hangs around the house all weekend. The following Monday, pressed by Rhiannon, Olive lies about losing her virginity to a college guy. Marianne (Amanda Bynes), a strictly religious girl at their school, overhears her telling the lie and soon it spreads like wildfire. The school's conservative church group run by Marianne decides Olive will be their next project.
School bell rings, classrooms empty, everyone goes home
Save for one girl, the model senior has the teacher alone
Says she’s fallen way behind and needs some one-on-one
Saunters over, taking out an essay she’d begun
Anxious students should not be ignored
But encounters like this seem untoward
All week long she’s been so tightly wound
So she lets her guard down
Student thinks she’s hit a snag and needs another take
Teacher looks the paper over, points to a mistake
Leaning over ever closer, interest as her guise
Student meets the gaze of teacher, pining in her eyes
While the ring on her hand screams to run
Nothing’s heard as her blouse comes undone
Inhibitions and clothes hit the floor