Discuss: Would You Go See ‘All the Boys Love Mandy Lane’?

Posted by Dr. Cole Abaius (cole.abaius@filmschoolrejects.com) on May 7, 2009

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We’ve stayed on top of Mandy Lane for a while now. The cinephile reason for this is that it’s the directorial debut of Jonathan Levine (whose The Wackness really impressed almost everyone at Reject HQ), but the real reason is probably because of our massive crush on Amber Heard. We’re not afraid to admit it.

But with news coming from Box Office Mojo and /film that the flick has, yet again, been taken off the release schedule, we’re starting to get even more frustrated.

The bottom line: we want to see the movie. But that doesn’t mean everyone does. So far, it’s gotten a solid amount of strong reviews from people, sure, but that doesn’t mean that the general public (which is the tipping point for releasing it in the first place) has any inclination to check it out.

So that’s our question for the day. We know that we are a smaller site (with only 29 regular daily readers), but we also know that our audience is full of movie lovers who might make a good cross-section – might create some totally unscientific proof that people would pay to see it or wouldn’t.

Here’s a synopsis from IMDB:

The orphan Mandy Lane is a beautiful, virgin and pure teenager raised by her aunt, desired by her schoolmates and a close friend of the outcast Emmet. After the death of their high school mate in a pool party, Mandy befriends Chloe, Marlin, Red, Bird and Jake. Red invites the group for a weekend party in the isolated ranch of his family, with all the boys disputing who would succeed in having sex with Mandy Lane. They meet the henchman Garth that takes care of the ranch and he asks the group to go easy on the drugs and booze. In the middle of the night, a stranger wearing a hood attacks Marlin in the barn; when Jake seeks her out, he faces the killer, beginning a night of bloodshed and terror.

And here’s the trailer:

And, yes, I love the use of the “Sealed with a Kiss” cover in the trailer.

What do you think? Would you go see this if it was released in theaters?

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Kingdomdad

I as originally going to try and track it down regardless, because I believe the beautiful and talented lauren London is in it, and seeing her in a (presumably) atypical role was intriuging enough. But the synopsis sounds pretty entertaining as well. so probably yea.

Kingdomdad

Whoops that's I love you beth cooper I was thinking of. But the trailer looks interesting.

Elliot

I've already seen the film, and it is a shame more people haven't been exposed to this. I enjoyed it a great deal.

Karl_H

I saw this film last year and I really enjoyed it, it was different. I hope that it gets released so that more people get to see it.

Eizabeth

It has Michael Welch in it.

That's all the reccomendation I need. I'll go see anything he's in that's not Twilight (that I'll catch on DVD soon, couldn't bring myself to give it the box office).

So yeah, I'd be there opening night to see him and Aaron Himelstein.

Judson

Got to see this and really enjoyed it. Production value is high, cinematography and directing was done very well and it was entertaining. Hard to believe this can't get some kind of DVD distro especially considering its a genre film and Amber Heard has had some decent exposure.

lynxo

I've also seen it and thought it was quite good. It kept my interest throughout and Amber Heard is great. I can't understand why it's having such trouble finding distribution. I do hope they find it though, it would suck to have worked on a quality film only to find it never gets anywhere while all the crappy ones out in theatres now somehow did.

Amani

How is everyone already seeing this movie? Looks interesting. I want to find out how can watch it since almost everyone in here says it is different and I have heard that as well from others.

Devon

I really, really want to see this!!!!!

Jame Gumb

2 Amani:
I've been told you can acquire it through Torrents... I can neither confirm nor deny this... ::cough:: what's that? oh i just have a cold.

Discuss: Would You Go See ‘All the Boys Love Mandy Lane’?

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