Review of Saved!

Saved! (2004)
7/10
entertaining teen satire
20 January 2006
I consider this movie to be a teen satire concerning religion. All the teens in this go to a Christian school. Mary decides to give her virginity to Dean because he thinks he is gay. She has a vision that God told her to do this. Dean gets sent away to a home for troubled kids. Mary soon learns she is pregnant, which of course is unheard of at her school.

Hillary Faye, played by Mandy Moore, is the other central character. She is the perfect Christian teen, who holds prayer groups and prays for everyone. She even tries to give Mary an exorcism. But, deep down Hilary is really mean-spirited and jealous. She is always on the case of Cassandra who is the only jew in school and who figures out Mary's secret. Roland is also in on the secret. He is in a wheel chair but Cassandra still likes him and he is much nicer than Hilary.

Mary and Cassandra do something that humiliates Hilary and in retaliation, Hillary damages school property, but sets Cass and Mary up. And she flat out lies about. Hilary gets caught in the end. And Mary's mom accepts Mary having the baby and realizes just because you don't live up to a high standard doesn't mean you are a bad person or Christian.

FINAL VERDICT: I thought it was a funny teen satire centered around a Christian school. I recommend it.
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