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Saved!
''Saved!'' is a 2004 American independent satirical black comedy film directed by Brian Dannelly, and starring Jena Malone, Mandy Moore, Macaulay Culkin, Patrick Fugit, Eva Amurri, Martin Donovan, and Mary-Louise Parker. Its plot follows a teenage girl (Malone) at a Christian high school who has sex with her boyfriend in an attempt to "cure" him of his homosexuality; she becomes pregnant as a result and is ostracized by her schoolmates. Filmed in British Columbia, the film had its theatrical release on May 28, 2004. ''Saved!'' was considered a sleeper hit, grossing over $9 million domestically following a platform release through Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer. The film received mixed reviews from critics, with many remarking on its blend of religious satire with elements of the contemporary teen film. Plot Devout evangelical Christian Mary Cummings is entering her senior year at American Eagle Christian High School near Baltimore. She and her friends Hilary Faye and Veronica have ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] [Amazon] |
Brian Dannelly
Brian Dannelly is a German born American film director and screenwriter best known for his work on the 2004 film ''Saved!'' Early life Dannelly was born in Würzburg, Germany then moved with his family to Baltimore, Maryland at age 11. He was raised Catholic; he attended a Catholic elementary school, Arlington Baptist High School in Baltimore, and a Jewish summer camp. He was expelled from first grade for hitting a nun, and later expelled from high school—which he describes as "one of the strictest schools in the nation"—for excessive demerits. He started questioning his sexuality in high school, saying "I remember I'd pray every night that I wasn't gay, and please God, please God, anything I could do—just don't make this happen." He came out at the age of 17 and was thrown out of his house by his parents, who eventually came to accept his sexuality. Dannelly graduated from the University of Maryland, Baltimore County with a degree in visual arts in 1997. Career Dannelly ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] [Amazon] |
Macaulay Culkin
Macaulay Macaulay Culkin Culkin (born Macaulay Carson Culkin; ) is an American actor and musician. Considered one of the most successful child actors of the 1990s, Culkin has received a Golden Globe Award nomination and other accolades. In 2005, he was ranked second on VH1's list of the "100 Greatest Kid-Stars". In 2023, he received a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame. Culkin earned recognition for playing Kevin McCallister in the Christmas comedy '' Home Alone'' (1990), and reprised the role in '' Home Alone 2: Lost in New York'' (1992). He furthered his success with the coming-of-age film '' My Girl'' (1991), the psychological thriller film '' The Good Son'' (1993), and the comedy films '' Getting Even with Dad'' and '' Richie Rich'' (both 1994). He took a hiatus starting in 1995, and returned to acting with the biographical drama film '' Party Monster'' (2003). Culkin appeared in the independent films '' Saved!'' (2004) and '' Sex and Breakfast'' (2007), and two project ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] [Amazon] |
Mandy Moore
Amanda Leigh "Mandy" Moore (born April 10, 1984) is an American singer-songwriter and actress. She rose to fame with her 1999 debut single "Candy (Mandy Moore song), Candy", which peaked at number 41 on the Billboard Hot 100, ''Billboard'' Hot 100. Her debut studio album, ''So Real (album), So Real'' (1999), received platinum certification by the Recording Industry Association of America (RIAA). The I Wanna Be with You (Mandy Moore song), title track from her reissue of ''So Real'', ''I Wanna Be with You (album), I Wanna Be With You'' (2000), became Moore's first top 40 single, peaking at 24 on the chart. Moore then released the studio albums ''Mandy Moore (album), Mandy Moore'' (2001), ''Coverage (album), Coverage'' (2003), ''Wild Hope'' (2007), ''Amanda Leigh'' (2009), ''Silver Landings'' (2020), and ''In Real Life (album), In Real Life'' (2022). She has sold ten million albums worldwide. Moore made her feature film debut in 2001 with a minor voice role in ''Dr. Dolittle 2'' ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] [Amazon] |
Jena Malone
Jena Laine Malone (; born November 21, 1984) is an American actress. Born in Sparks, Nevada, Malone spent her early life there and in Las Vegas, while her mother acted in local theater productions. Inspired to become an actress herself, Malone convinced her mother to relocate to Los Angeles. After a series of auditions, Malone was cast in the television film '' Bastard Out of Carolina'' (1996), for which she received Independent Spirit and Screen Actors Guild Award nominations, and the television film ''Hope'' (1997), for which she received a Golden Globe Award nomination. She next appeared in the feature films '' Contact'' (1997) and '' Stepmom'' (1998), winning a Saturn Award for the former. Malone began the 2000s with the independent psychological thriller ''Donnie Darko'' (2001), which became a cult film. She next appeared in the drama film '' Life as a House'' and the miniseries '' Hitler: The Rise of Evil'' (both 2003), and the dark comedy film '' Saved!'' (2004), and ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] [Amazon] |
Sandy Stern
Sandy Stern is an American film producer, known for his work on the films '' Pump Up the Volume'' (1990), ''Being John Malkovich'' (1999) and ''Saved!'' (2004). Career Stern's first project, released in 1990, was the teen film '' Pump Up the Volume'', which was nominated for a 1990 Independent Spirit Award for Best Film. He subsequently became executive producer of ''Equinox'' and '' Red Hot'', released direct-to-video in 1992 and 1993 respectively. He met rock band R.E.M.'s lead singer Michael Stipe through Stern's friend Samantha Mathis' boyfriend, River Phoenix. At the time, Stern was producing with Sean Penn, and teamed up as producing partners with Stipe looking for a change. Together they executive produced '' Velvet Goldmine'' in 1998 and '' Freak City'' in 1999. They formed a production company, Single Cell, and their next project was Charlie Kaufman and Spike Jonze's 1999 film ''Being John Malkovich''. ''Being John Malkovich'' won a 2000 Independent Spirit Award for Be ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] [Amazon] |
Patrick Fugit
Patrick Raymond Fugit (; born October 27, 1982) is an American actor. His breakout role was William Miller in the comedy-drama film '' Almost Famous'' (2000), which earned him a Screen Actors Guild Award nomination. Fugit has also had starring roles in the films '' Spun'' (2002), '' White Oleander'' (2002), ''Saved!'' (2004), '' Wristcutters: A Love Story'' (2006), '' Cirque du Freak: The Vampire's Assistant'' (2009), '' We Bought a Zoo'' (2011), and '' Thanks for Sharing'' (2012). He had supporting roles in '' Gone Girl'' (2014) and '' First Man'' (2018). Fugit had the lead role in the psychological horror film '' My Heart Can't Beat Unless You Tell It To'' (2020), which he also produced. Fugit played the lead role of Kyle Barnes on the Cinemax horror series '' Outcast'' (2016–2018). He also had a main role as Pat Montgomery on the HBO Max miniseries '' Love & Death'' (2023). Fugit performed the role of Owen Moore in the 2020 video game '' The Last of Us Part II''. Early li ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] [Amazon] |
Eva Amurri
Eva Amurri (born March 15, 1985) is an American actress. Early life Eva Amurri was born on March 15, 1985, in New York City, to Italian film director Franco Amurri and American actress Susan Sarandon (whose mother's ancestry was Italian). Amurri was raised by her mother and her mother's long-time partner Tim Robbins. She has two maternal half-brothers, Jack and Miles, as well as two paternal half-siblings, Leone and Augusta, from her father's marriage to Heide Lund, and two stepsisters, Tallulah and Ruby, from Lund's previous marriage to Lord Antony Isaacs, son of Michael Isaacs, 3rd Marquess of Reading. She attended Friends Seminary (Manhattan) for middle school, and graduated from Saint Ann's School in Brooklyn, New York, and Brown University. Career Amurri had a role in the comedy film ''The Banger Sisters'' (2002), in which her mother starred, with Amurri playing the daughter of her mother's character. She guest-starred, along with her mother, on an episode of ''Friends' ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] [Amazon] |
Christophe Beck
Jean-Christophe Beck (born in 1968) is a Canadian television and film score composer. He is best known for his collaborations with Disney and its subsidiaries, which include composing the soundtracks of '' The Muppets'' (2011) and '' Muppets Most Wanted'' (2014), '' Frozen'' (2013) and '' Frozen 2'' (2019), the Marvel Cinematic Universe films '' Ant-Man'' (2015), '' Ant-Man and the Wasp'' (2018), and '' Ant-Man and the Wasp: Quantumania'' (2023) as well as the TV miniseries '' WandaVision'' (2021), '' Hawkeye'' (2021), and '' Agatha All Along'' (2024) for Marvel Studios, and '' Free Guy'' (2021) for 20th Century Studios, as well as Disney's 100th anniversary logo. He composed the scores for several of Shawn Levy's films, including '' Big Fat Liar'' (2002), '' Just Married'' (2003), '' Cheaper by the Dozen'' (2003), ''The Pink Panther'' (2006), '' The Internship'' (2013), and '' Free Guy'' (2021). Notably, he won an Emmy Award in 1998 for his work on the television series '' B ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] [Amazon] |
Mary-Louise Parker
Mary-Louise Parker (born August 2, 1964) is an American actress. After making her Broadway debut as Rita in Craig Lucas' '' Prelude to a Kiss'' in 1990 (for which she received a Tony Award nomination), Parker came to prominence for film roles in ''Grand Canyon'' (1991), ''Fried Green Tomatoes'' (1991), '' The Client'' (1994), '' Bullets Over Broadway'' (1994), '' A Place for Annie'' (1994), '' Boys on the Side'' (1995), '' The Portrait of a Lady'' (1996), and '' The Maker'' (1997). Among stage and independent film appearances thereafter, Parker received the 2001 Tony Award for Best Actress in a Play for her portrayal of Catherine Llewellyn in David Auburn's ''Proof'', among other accolades. Between 2001 and 2006, she recurred as Amy Gardner in the NBC television series ''The West Wing'', for which she was nominated for the Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Supporting Actress in a Drama Series in 2002. She received both a Golden Globe and a Primetime Emmy Award for her portr ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] [Amazon] |
Martin Donovan
Martin Donovan (born Martin Paul Smith; August 19, 1957) is an American actor. He has had a long collaboration with director Hal Hartley, appearing in many of his films, such as '' Trust'' (1990), '' Surviving Desire'' (1991), '' Simple Men'' (1992), ''Amateur'' (1994), '' Flirt'' (1995), and '' The Book of Life'' (1998), starring as Jesus Christ in the latter. Donovan also played Peter Scottson on Showtime's cable series ''Weeds''. He made his writing/directorial debut with the film '' Collaborator'' (2011). Donovan played Detective Hap Eckhart in Christopher Nolan's psychological thriller ''Insomnia'' (2002) and the Protagonist's CIA handler, Fay, in Nolan's science-fiction action thriller film '' Tenet'' (2020). Early life Donovan was born Martin Paul Smith in Reseda, California. He graduated from Crespi Carmelite High School and attended Pierce College for two years. He attended American Theater Arts, a combined conservatory and theater company in Los Angeles, where he a ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] [Amazon] |
Heather Matarazzo
Heather Matarazzo (born November 10, 1982) is an American actress. She is known for playing Lilly Moscovitz in '' The Princess Diaries'' (2001) and its 2004 sequel, and Martha Meeks in ''Scream 3'' (2000) and '' Scream'' (2022). Matarazzo made her film debut at age 12 in ''Welcome to the Dollhouse'' (1995), earning an Independent Spirit Award for her portrayal of Dawn Wiener. Her other credits include '' The Devil's Advocate'' (1997), '' All I Wanna Do'' (1998), '' 54'' (1998), '' Sorority Boys'' (2002), ''Saved!'' (2004), and ''Sisters'' (2015). Outside film, Matarazzo portrayed Heather Wiseman on the CBS series '' Now and Again'' (1999–2000), and had recurring roles on ''Roseanne'' (1997), '' Exes & Ohs'' (2006–2009), and ''The L Word'' (2007). On stage, she appeared in the 2001–2002 Broadway revival of '' The Women''. Early life Matarazzo's biological mother was Irish-American, while her biological father was from Ireland, from the town of Knock ( Irish: ''An Cnoc ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] [Amazon] |
William Vince
William D. "Bill" Vince (November 23, 1963 – June 21, 2008) was a Canadians, Canadian film producer, producer. His credits include producing ''Air Bud'' (1997), ''Dead Heat (2002 film), Dead Heat'' (2002), ''Saved!'' (2004), and ''Capote (film), Capote'' (2005) (for which he shared an Academy Award nomination for Best Picture). Personal life Vince was born William D. Vince in British Columbia in 1963. Death On June 23, 2008, it was announced that Vince had died two days earlier from a multi-year battle with cancer. At the time of his death, he had been working on ''Push (2009 film), Push'' in post-production with two more films in development, and he had completed production of ''Edison and Leo'' and ''The Imaginarium of Doctor Parnassus''. The latter film was dedicated to his memory along with that of Heath Ledger. Filmography * ''Cafe Romeo'' (1992) * ''Tomcat: Dangerous Desires'' (1993) * ''Samurai Cowboy'' (1993) * ''Breaking Point'' (1993) * ''Anything for Love'' (1993) ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] [Amazon] |
