Easy A / Sydney White / The House Bunny

Triple bill of campus-based comedies. ‘Easy A’ (2010) stars Emma Stone as Olive Penderghast, a high school student whose reputation is put on the line when she tells a white lie to her gay best friend, Brandon (Dan Byrd), about losing her virginity. As malign rumours about her begin to spread round the school – largely due to the influence of competitive student Marianne (Amanda Bynes) – Olive determines to make the best of the situation and use the rumours to her advantage. ‘Sydney White’ (2008) transposes the fairy tale of Snow White and the Seven Dwarves to a modern US college setting. Amanda Bynes stars as Sydney White, a beautiful young student who pledges her allegiance to her late mother’s sorority when she starts college on a scholarship. She soon realises, however, that sorority life is far from what it was in her mother’s day, and decides to find a home outside the college. She ends up sharing a house with seven male social outcasts and is pleased to discover that every one of the ‘seven dorks’ has a special quality of his own. ‘The House Bunny’ (2008) stars Anna Faris as Shelley, a blonde and bubbly Playboy bunny who is thrown out of the Playboy mansion and ends up becoming house mother in a college sorority that is home to seven socially challenged and downright dysfunctional young women. Despite their apparent differences, as Shelley settles into the role it becomes clear that she and the college girls may have a lot to teach other about life and love.