Clueless
Synopsis
Jane Austen’s Emma is reimagined as a fashion frenzied Beverly Hills high schooler named Cher, an ultra-rich, socially successful matchmaker looking for love in all the wrong places, until she finally realizes that her disapproving ex-stepbrother was right all along about how misguided she was…
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Awards & Festivals
National Board of Review
1995 | Winner: Best Breakthrough Performer
Writers Guild of America
1996 | Nominee: Best Screenplay Written Directly for the Screen (Screen)
New York Film Critics Circle Awards
1995 | 2nd place: Best Screenplay
Critics reviews
Perhaps the first, and still one of the best, of the now numerous movies to transpose the plot of a Jane Austen novel (in this case, Emma) to a modern context, writer-director Heckerling’s Clueless is a fizzy SweeTart of a pop culture time capsule.
Elise Nakhnikian
May 11, 2016
Film Critic:...
Heckerling is blissfully happy to cruise amid one thousand beautifully observed details of contemporary culture and teenage manners. The film has a joyfully everyday, daggy quality – even given the glamorous, middle-class milieu in which it is set – and tiny, hilarious details about clothes, songs, lingo and lifestyle just never stop coming.
Adrian Martin
September 01, 1995
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