i disagree. It was an okay movie and then it sorta jumped the rails for me. I thought it was sweet if not original. The boy was earnest and Mazur is beautiful and compelling. It was the frat house scene that seemed to ruin everything that followed. At first I thought it was going the cliched route of suggesting that all frat parties, and frat boys, are just waiting for an opportunity to gang rape someone (it seems acceptable to always paint guys in frats as the worst people ever), but instead it took a weird turn and had her army stalker waiting to rape her. WHAT? Why would the soldier be at the frat party? Why would the frat boys let him take her upstairs? Why wouldn't she have freaked out when she saw him at the party, even if she was drunk? So that part really confused me. Then I thought her speech at his weird trial was both cliched, irrelevant, and made her sound stupid (which the rest of the movie did not, she was not supposed to be the julia roberts in pretty woman to the kid's Richard Gere, unsophisticated and trashy). Plus nobody gets a full scholarship to Stanford and no interviewer or admission rep would ever say that a student "has a good chance" of receiving full scholarship (unless they are being recruited for football/basketball) It's nearly impossible just to get in to Stanford, no admission person will ballpark it as likely that almost any student would even get admitted much less a full scholarship.
So I enjoyed about 3/4 of the movie and then I ended up just disappointed.
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