Description: Good girl Mary (Jena Malone) and her best friend Hilary Faye (Mandy Moore) are at the top of the food chain at American Eagle Christian High School. But all that is about to change in this "subversively funny" (USA Today) teen comedy about hype, hypocrisy and high school. Also starring Macaulay Culkin and Patrick Fugit, Saved! is "a boldly hilarious satire" (Rolling Stone)!
Amazon.com: Classic teen comedy mixes with cunning satire in Saved!. Fervent Christian Mary (Jena Malone, Donnie Darko) believes God wants her to save her gay boyfriend by sleeping with him. But he gets sent to an anti-gay indoctrination camp while she ends up pregnant--which starts to drive a wedge between Mary and her snotty best friend Hilary Faye (Mandy Moore, How to Deal). Meanwhile, they're both interested in the son (Patrick Fugit, Almost Famous) of their Christian school principal (Martin Donovan, Trust). Saved! respects faith but gleefully mocks the excesses and absurdities of contemporary organized religion, particularly its suburban, let's-speak-the-language-of-the-kids manifestations. The actors, including Macaulay Culkin (yes, from Home Alone) and Mary Louise Parker (Fried Green Tomatoes), play their parts with sincerity, which makes the fusion of humor and heart succeed. A delightful movie. --Bret Fetzer
Great service! Came in the same condition it said it would be in. It arrived on time and I didn't have to worry that it wasn't coming. Great service!
An Overdrawn Charicature Has some funny parts but is mostly a charicature of a small segment of conservative Christians, and so not a great satire.
A Good Message and a ton of Bad Messages Jesus loves all of us even with our own faults. That's the one good lesson that came out of this film. Every other message this movie provides lacks a serious good insight. Unfortunately that's just the way the issue is generally dealt with. The so called Christians in this film are portrayed as conceited and shameless people who look down on everybody else with no humility. This is good to recognize, because there are a lot of Christians that do behave this way(though the acting was AWFUL). However, the other characters in this film aren't exactly judged fairly either. Yes pre-marital sex is in fact wrong. She should have known better, but because the Christians in this film are incapable of not only being intelligent, but rational (which isn't exactly fair with great minds like St. Thomas Aquinas) she didn't Someone who is gay should probably give up sexuality altogether. There's nothing wrong with just simply being that way, but there is something wrong with acting upon it. Some people are born with inclinations to kill people. They can't help it, but does that make it okay to kill someone? I don't think I really need to answer that. Now, I'm not saying the two actions are equivalent, but they are both wrong. Homosexuality just happens to be against our natural design. If people can complain about how smoking is bad for their health, certainly they can realize how homosexuality isn't exactly healthy behavior either. If it were they would be able to reproduce, get my drift. When I first saw a commercial for this movie I was thinking of something along the lines of love the sinner hate the sin, but instead it was you have to love the sin in order to love the person, which ironically is actually very closed minded. On a further note I would also like to mention the whole message about having to feel God in the end was both week and lame at the same time. If I only helped out my friend when I felt like it, I wouldn't really be a very good friend. Jesus needless to say deserves better from us. I believe there is actually a parable about seeds that fall on the bad soil with vines that represent those who believe then fall away because they don't feel like it anymore. But anyway, that's also why I didn't exactly like the form of worship in this film. I've gone to Catholic school for most my life and I've always worshiped Him, but that never involved shouting "Jesus rocks" from what I recall. That's just kind of corny in my taste. Not that there is anything wrong with that though, because He actually does rock.
Often overlooked....but so much better than Juno To compare Saved to Juno is probably not fair. After all, Saved deals with an issue outside of teen pregnancy. But while watching Saved, compare it to Juno was all I could do. And kudos to Saved! For me, you kicked Juno's butt! I found this dark comedy consistently funny, a little more believable, and much more memorable.
AMAZING... I thought this movie was amazing. My mom showed it to me when because she thought I would like it. And, again, she was right. I loved it. I think it's great for kids! I'm 11 and I completely fell in love with it. I may be going over the top, but yes, that and more.
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