Cleaner Than It Seems
American Idol Junkie, a movie reviewer, mother of 12 year old daughter, a storyteller, A Big Giant Sap, a believer of fate
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11
2008
Anna Faris stars as Shelley, a girl who grew up as an orphan and landed at the Playboy Mansion, still looking for a family and a house as a young woman. Despite the fact that she is now 27 and has spent all of her adult years living with Hef, she considers her life to be a fairy tale. It's that part of the story that would appeal to younger girls. It's a unique fairy tale, sure, but it's still a fairy tale. Much of the film plays out with Shelley being a complete innocent.
The day she turns 27, Shelley receives a letter from Hef explaining that she is being forced to leave the mansion due to her advanced age of 27, which the house boy tells her is 59 in bunny years. Not having anywhere else to go, she follows some coeds that talk about a marguerita party, and winds up on a university campus. Seeing a bunch of older women gathered and learning they are house mothers, she decides that's exactly what she needs to do, as planning parties and taking care of the girls was similar to what she did at the Playboy mansion.
There's only one sorority in need of a house mother, and that's the Zeta Alpha Zetas, who are about to lose their charter because they can't get any pledges interested in joining. In a classic case of nerds becoming beauties, the house holds two unwed pregnant girls, a quintessential bookworm that you can tell would be beautiful without makeup, glasses, and a ponytail, a girl in a back brace, a punk girl, a mute girl that hides in a closet, and a looming northwoods lumberjack girl. There's a few well-known names in the bunch as well, as American Idol runner-up Katherine McPhee appears as well as Rumer Willis, Bruce and Demi's daughter. Also, Emma Stone, from Superbad and currently being seen on The Rocker has a major role. Shelley and the girls agree to help each other. She'll help them become attractive and popular which will attract more pledges, and they'll give her a place to live, also making her feel wanted again.
Shelley also meets a young man, the director of a nursing home, Oliver (Colin Hanks), who she sees as the perfect solution for everything, helping her as well as the sorority, as while she really likes Oliver and thinks he's cute, it helps fulfill the "phil trophy" (philanthropy) requirement the sorority needs to retain their charter if they all pitch in and help out at the home.
I can't really think of any sexual situations in The House Bunny, other than really loose suggestions, and you can find that on primetime TV these days. I also remember no nudity. I saw no naked parts, or at least they were so obscure, it's hard for me to remember them. The language was indeed brief as well. It really would have been the perfect movie choice for a tween girl, as to go along with the absence of offending material, it was written as a fairy tale. If you can put the thought of Playboy aside, there's really some good morals in the end.
The House Bunny is recommended by LauraBelle
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