But I'm a Cheerleader

Watch: But I'm a Cheerleader

Unrated

8/1/20001h 25m

Premiere Release (US)

~ A comedy of sexual disorientation. ~

Overview:

Megan is an all-American girl. A cheerleader. She has a boyfriend. But Megan doesn't like kissing her boyfriend very much. And she's pretty touchy with her cheerleader friends. Her conservative parents worry that she must be a lesbian and send her off to "sexual redirection" school, where she must, with other lesbians and gays learn how to be straight.

Director:

Jamie Babbit

Status:

Released

Language:

English

Buget:

$1,200,000.00

Revenue:

$2,600,000.00

Key words:

coming out
cheerleader
male homosexuality
lgbt
lgbt teen
woman director
shame
ironic
conversion therapy
lesbian
sapphic
joyful

Cast

Natasha Lyonne

~ as ~

Megan

Clea DuVall

~ as ~

Graham

Cathy Moriarty

~ as ~

Mary Brown

RuPaul

~ as ~

Mike

Melanie Lynskey

~ as ~

Hilary

Katharine Towne

~ as ~

Sinead

Katrina Phillips

~ as ~

Jan

Joel Michaely

~ as ~

Joel

Douglas Spain

~ as ~

Andre

Kip Pardue

~ as ~

Clayton

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Reviews (2)

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fasm1976
Written 10 year(s) ago
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Awesome movie about a girl sent to a camp to make her straight. Funny comedy n you get to see Ru Paul out of drag!
alexia
Written 1 year(s) ago
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Definitely one of my favorites, I'm not great at writing reviews but somethings I love about this movie is just how well Natasha Lyonne and Clea DuVall were able to represent such interesting characters.

Megan and Graham are such deep characters and getting to see them get their happy ending is all I could ask for in a movie like this.

Having RuPaul in this is also a nice touch, also considering the irony in his role.

Dante Basco is also someone I loved to see in this, I'm for sure a huge fan of some of his other roles as well like Zuko from ATLA and Rufio from Hook.

(So many niche references here to make, Homestuck for one. One of the characters Rufioh was inspired by Dante's part who he actually ended up doing some voicing for him in a Voxus Lets Read Homestuck recording somewhere! Grey Delisle, the voice of Azula from ATLA, also did a few one off lines for Vriska at some point. I think Dante was a pretty big fan of Homestuck at the time and got her to do a few lines but I'm not completely sure.)

The message of the movie is "Be gay" as said by Natasha Lyonne.

Anyways, I think this is an amazing movie with loveable characters and I'd definitely recommend this to anyone!