Easy A is a 2010 teen comedy film starring Emma Stone, Penn Badgley and Amanda Bynes. The movie tells the story of teenager Olive Penderghast (Stone), a straight-arrow high school student who uses her school's rumor mill to try and become more popular. Olive, without purposefully meaning to, starts a rumor about herself: that she has lost her virginity. What follows is a series of events very similar to those of the character Hester Prynne in the classic novel The Scarlet Letter (which Olive and her classmates are reading).http://www.letsnotandsaywedid.com/site/ Easy A was directed by Will Gluck. The movie also stars Dan Byrd, Thomas Haden Church, Stanley Tucci, Patricia Clarkson, Cam Gigandet and Lisa Kudrow. Easy A was scheduled to be released in U.S. theaters on September 17, 2010.http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1282140/

Reviews for Easy A began coming out before the film's release. Overall, the reviews were favorable. Easy A garnered an 80 percent "Fresh" rating on Rotten Tomatoes' "Tomatometer" on September 15, 2010.http://www.rottentomatoes.com/m/easy-a/ The film scored a 61 out of 100 on Metacritic.com.http://www.metacritic.com/movie/easy-a

Of the critics who favorably reviewed Easy A, many cited the movie's fresh take on high school comedy movies. Kirk Honeycutt of The Hollywood Reporter called Easy A "a high school romp that turns a stale genre upside down with sly wit and sharp satire."http://www.hollywoodreporter.com/hr/film-reviews/easy-a-film-review-1004113726.story Roger Moore of the Orlando Sentinel said the "ghost of John Hughes smiles upon Easy A, a film that freely and giddily borrows from and pays tribute to Hughes’ famous Holy Trinity of ’80s teen angst comedies."http://blogs.orlandosentinel.com/entertainment_movies_blog/2010/09/movie-review-easy-a.html?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+entertainment%2Fmovies%2Fmovieblog+%28Frankly+My+Dear+-+Movies%29 John Anderson of Variety calls Easy A a "high school morality fable" that recalls the the 1995 teen comedy Clueless, "a comedy of very contemporary ill manners drawn from classic literature, an immersion in the young-adult lexicon and a potentially career-making showcase for its lead actress, Emma Stone."http://www.metacritic.com/movie/easy-a/critic-reviews

'Easy A is a teen comedy film starring Emma Stone, Penn Badgley and Amanda Bynes that opened in U.S. theaters on September 17, 2010.

"An often hilarious and observant comedy about high school from the point of view of an extraordinarily smart and sagacious young woman."— Kirk Honeycutt, The Hollywood Reporterhttp://www.hollywoodreporter.com/hr/film-reviews/easy-a-film-review-1004113726.story

"If Lindsay Lohan never makes it back to leading-lady status, then we can all comfort ourselves with the knowledge that we have Emma Stone."— Owen Gleiberman, Entertainment Weeklyhttp://www.ew.com/ew/article/0,,20426225,00.html

"As far as teen comedies informed by 10th-grade English syllabi go, Easy A, partly inspired by "The Scarlet Letter," is remedial ed compared with "Clueless" and "10 Things I Hate About You."— Melissa Anderson, Village Voicehttp://www.villagevoice.com/2010-09-15/film/easy-a-a-waste-of-emma-stone/

"The movie belongs to Stone, that gorgeous, husky-voiced redhead. When most actors deliver nonstop patter, their mouths get ahead of their minds, but Stone’s brain works so fast that her mouth can barely keep up."— David Edelstein, New York Magazinehttp://nymag.com/movies/reviews/68101/index1.html

"The script...seems to have been run through an out-of-control sass machine (seriously, it'll make you appreciate Diablo Cody's tact)."— Joshua Rothkopf, Time Out New Yorkhttp://newyork.timeout.com/articles/film/89070/easy-a-film-review