Clueless (1995)
Average Rating: 6.9/10
Reviews Counted: 57
Fresh: 46 | Rotten: 11
A funny and clever reshaping of Emma, Clueless offers a soft satire that pokes as much fun at teen films as it does at the Beverly Hills glitterati.
Average Rating: 7.2/10
Critic Reviews: 13
Fresh: 11 | Rotten: 2
A funny and clever reshaping of Emma, Clueless offers a soft satire that pokes as much fun at teen films as it does at the Beverly Hills glitterati.
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Jane Austen might never have imagined that her 1816 novel Emma could be turned into a fresh and satirical look at ultra-rich teenagers in a Beverly Hills high school. Cher (Alicia Silverstone) and Dionne (Stacey Dash), both named after "great singers of the past that now do infomercials," are pampered upper-class girls who care less about getting good grades than wearing the right clothes and being as popular as possible. But Cher, who lives with her tough yet warm-hearted lawyer dad (Dan
Jul 21, 1995 Wide
Oct 19, 1999
Paramount Pictures
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Cast
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Alicia Silverstone
Cher Horowitz -
Paul Rudd
Josh -
Brittany Murphy
Tai -
Breckin Meyer
Travis -
Stacey Dash
Dionne -
Dan Hedaya
Mel Hamilton -
Donald Faison
Murray -
Wallace Shawn
Mr. Wendell Hall -
Jeremy Sisto
Elton -
Jace Alexander
Robber -
Twink Caplan
Miss Geist -
Roger Kabler
College Guy -
Aida Linares
Lucy -
Ron Orbach
DMV Tester -
Julie Brown
Miss Stoeger -
Carl Gottlieb
Minister -
Elisa Donovan
Amber -
Justin Walker
Christian -
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All Critics (57) | Top Critics (13) | Fresh (54) | Rotten (11) | DVD (31)
There's such a gaping discontinuity between her physical beauty and her vacant, gum-snapping personality that she's like a walking advertisement for everything that's right and wrong with America.
The summer's most compelling movie about teenagers.
A fresh, disarmingly bright and at times explosively funny comedy well worth a trip to the mall, even if it eventually runs out of gas.
Though this drifts at times as storytelling, it's mainly lightweight but personable fun.
Silverstone makes Cher's insularity appealingly innocent (even in the midst of crisis, she can't resist checking out the latest fashion lines), and an attempted seduction scene is sweetly hopeless.
Top CriticWhile Miss Silverstone guides Cher through the witty costume changes that serve as character development, she's backed up by a solid supporting cast.
Its goal is humble: to walk the line between bubblegum pop that indulges trends, and a halfhearted critique of shallowness. I don't think this is what feminists mean by "having it all"...
Great teen comedies aren't afraid of being or looking foolish, and this highly admirable transfer of Clueless makes a renewed claim for the film's place in the canon.
offers some of the best humor, entertainment, and social insight the teen comedy genre has to offer
...it's funny, poignant, and pointed. (Blu-ray edition)
'Clueless' is a sweet, comical, satiric, knowing film, and it's anything but clueless.
A gag-inducing Four Loko misfire.
The most surprising thing about Clueless, given how enthusiastically it indicts its characters and their universe, is how much fun it is.
Clueless is a happy bubble, and Alicia Silverstone comes into her own as a confident young comedienne.
...although the movie isn't quite the classic it's been made out to be, it's a mindlessly diverting way to kill 97 minutes.
Smug and self-loathing.
It's funny to watch how the careers of the teens have taken off, or not, and how movies about teens have changed in a meer decade...
Mostly harmless fun and totally rewatchable. Like, totally.
Audience Reviews for Clueless
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- Travis: I would like to say this. Tardiness is not something you can do on your own. Many, many people contributed to my tardiness. I would like to thank my parents for never giving me a ride to school, the LA city bus driver who took a chance on an unknown kid and last but not least, the wonderful crew from McDonalds who spend hours making those egg McMuffins without which I might never be tardy.
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- Dionne: Cher's saving herself for Luke Perry.
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- Cher Horowitz: Dionne and her boyfriend Murray are in this dramatic relationship. I think they've seen that Ike and Tina Turner movie too many times.
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- Cher Horowitz: Until mankind is peaceful enough not to have violence on the news, there's no point in taking it out of shows that need it for entertainment value.
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- Cher Horowitz: Okay, so you're probably going, "Is this like a Noxzema commercial or what?" But seriously, I actually have a way normal life for a teenage girl.
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- Amber: She could be a farmer in those clothes.
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Now kind of sad viewing seeing Brittany Murphy - there's an actress I think could have gone further.