Prom Dates
Prom Dates
“Prom Dates,” a story about 2 teenage girls getting into scrapes before prom parties sounds as crude as an R rated teen comedy but proves warm and heartfelt. While this narrative technique is ancient, it reached its peak in the 21 st century with the movie ‘Superbad’ and further advanced when social media became rampart with booksmart. Written by D.J. Mausner and directed by Kim O. Nguyen both of whom majorly trained on television comedy. ‘It has the feeling of a sitcom, even if it employs wide-screen cinematography that is out to scream, hey, it’s not going to be like that, Prom Dates a movie.’ Most of it is in fact a very long recruitment film for a Netflix show that, once off, would slowly acquire a modest but faithful audience only to be pulled out after 2 seasons to prevent the streamer from paying triple salaries for going beyond 2 seasons. Still, there is loading inside it.
The cast includes Jess Antonia Gentry and Hannah Julia Lester. Before their marriage these two former friends will have to overcome their personal obstacles. They were only thirteen when they crawled under the table of the prom they attempted to attend, and Prom Dates was while so hidden that they lodged that Hannah’s date will be ‘the love of her life
The friends are Jess and Hannah. When they were very small, precisely age 13, they attended a prom unauthorized and while there under a table, during a speech Hannah said that this was her love of her life and Jess that she was going to be the most popular girl in school ‘Miss prom queen’ and there are two people so far who have the answer to this question.
This is Senior Prom, and all hell broke loose five years later. Since Jess finally decides to take things up a notch to clinch the crown, she goes with a rich brought casting Jordan Buhat as the handsome but very shallow Luca, only for her to find out that he is cheating the night before prom and dumps him. (After one of Luca’s unspoken other hooks goes all out, Luca says out loud ‘Siri, pause Sexy time playlist’.)
On the other hand, Hannah cannot get a date, because she has not had any, but for some strange passionate reason gets “volunteered” to do it by no other than her obsessive Number One fan Greg – kinder version of Kenny Ridwan. She says yes because no matter how surreal it sounds, she has no where else to go. It is not only because Greg is annoying and has no decency about personal space, but also Hannah is a lesbian, and has not come out to anyone, not even Jess.
Most of the film is based on a college party where a lot of alcohol and drugs are used, as well as a lot of efforts being made on sex ( which did not come out as much in practice). And the story moves in circles and you wouldn’t believe that in the world that the girls find out at the end is that all they needed was each other – well that and a bit of wish fulfilment that frankly, was well earned by the time it finally arrives.
Many of “Prom Dates” seems to conform to the post millennium trends and characters of industry oriented copied styles that include dramatized shifts, a transitory experience which such films seldom follow through most of the time owing to unsightly interruptions that involve bodily fluids (puke and blood in this one) and party scenes in which vast purses of wonders do not comprehend how strange they are while at the same time having the will to help them social interactions with people who encourage this level of weirdness (quite a rogue’s gallery here, including an aspiring serial killer and a young woman named Heather who discovered liquid courage and declared herself Vodka Heather).
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“Anyway your music taste is women who look like sad ghosts,” she always pokes fun at her devout brother Jacob (JT Neal). When she communicates every female and almost every straight female to solicit for a prom, one of them answers, “Sorry! I’m not gay, I’m just really into softball,” to that Heather gets furious, “That’s a lie! She hit 42 home runs this year!”
The cast is lovable even when the film crams them into cookie cutter teenage film archetypes. And it’s nice to see so many young actors being given such opportunities at the same time they are being required to do a lot of old-fashioned character driven scene work. Gentry and Lester have such real chemistry (especially when the characters are getting physical with each other) that I wouldn’t be averse to watching more films focused on them. Ridwan is the one who goes the most out, playing the character of Greg in a controlled geekiness with a rage that reminds me of an early Nicolas Cage, especially in valley girl and Peggy Sue. One scene, right towards the close of the movie, is Hannah and Greg. And that’s the one scene that is devoid of any humor heads up.
It might be insightful to chop on Prom Dates a decade later and catalog all the important actors that were introduced in it.
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- Genre: Comedy
- Country: united sates
- Director: Kim O. Nguyen
- Cast: Julia Lester, Antonia Gentry, Kenny Ridwan
