Year:
1998
Studio: Miramax
Films
Movie:
3/5
DVD:
0/5
All I Wanna Do is a movie about a group of girls attending an all-girl
prep school in Connecticut in the 1950s or 60s. Led by Verena von
Stefan (Kirsten Dunst) they call themselves the DAR, the Daughters of
the American Ravioli. As can be expected from having such a name, the
girls are the rebels of the school.
The main plot is that the school is running out of money and the
trustees have voted to merge the all-girl school with an all-boys
school. The DAR finds out and break up over the question of whether to
accept fate or fight it. Verena elects to fight because she knows that
in a mixed-gender school the boys will get all the attention and glory.
There is another plot wherein the newest DAR member, Odette Sinclair
(Gaby Hoffman) wants to lose her virginity to her boyfriend. In fact,
those plans are what prompted her parents to send her to boarding
school. But the DAR has a couple of schemes to help Odette achieve her
goals, even if some of the other members disagree.
It's a movie about young women being independent at a time when that
independence was not a given. Not an especially remarkable movie, it
does have some good moments. I liked the romance between Snake (Vincent
Kartheiser) and Tinka (Monica Keena) which was cute and funny.
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