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Sydney White - Amanda Bynes, Matt Long, Sara Paxton, Joe Nussbaum

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Movie propaganda

Freshman year is no fairy tale.

In this funny, modern retelling of the classic Snow White fairytale Amanda Bynes is Sydney White, a beautiful college freshman who pledges her late mother's once dignified sorority.

But after discovering that today's sisterhood is not what it used to be, Sydney finds her new home away from home with seven outcasts. With the help of her socially challenged new friends, Sydney will take on the reigning campus queen to attempt to transform the school's misguided social hierarchy.

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Target demographic movie keyword propaganda

Film comedy romance teen university college sorority campus dork nerd geek social misfit outsider Greek

Persons of interest

Amanda Bynes .... Sydney White
Sara Paxton .... Rachel Witchburn
Matt Long .... Tyler Prince
Jack Carpenter .... Lenny
Jeremy Howard .... Terrence Lubinecki
Crystal Hunt .... Demetria Rosemead 'Dinky' Hotchkiss
Adam Hendershott .... Jeremy
Danny Strong .... Gurkin
Samm Levine .... Spanky
Libby Mintz .... Christy
John Schneider .... Paul White
Arnie Pantoja .... George
Donté Bonner .... Embele
Brian Patrick Clarke .... Professor Carleton
Lauren Leech .... Katy
Cree Ivey .... Young Sydney White
Ashley Drane .... Alicia
Lisandra Vazquez .... Amy
Chris Carberg .... Moose
Jeff Chase .... Big Ron
Tait Moline .... Danny the Tranny
Chad Gomez Creasey .... Screenwriter
Joe Nussbaum .... Director

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Hoyts Distribution

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Theatrical report

Sydney White is not going to shatter anyone's perceptions or romance, comedy or university (let alone the classic horror/thriller Snow White) but it's still a funny, romantic, university movie. Especially if you like laughing at dorks: they found an array of inbred geeks the likes of whom you've never before seen. Nerds R Us must've made a fortune in finder's fees.

On the up side, Matt Long is like Freddie Prinze Jr's younger brother, the one who looks more like Dad than Mum (ie he's handsomer than Freddie and not as pretty). He's very preppy but he looks like he wants more than a rampant blonde. Cue the brunette plumber's daughter. Amanda Bynes isn't stretched by her role (no-one in this movie is stretched) but she does the best she can with what she's given. The only one who does more than his job requires him to is Arnie Pantoja as the Dopey dork: he's like a hotel with a permanent Vacancy sign.

You can send the kid to see this film; it's largely harmless.

The comedy, romance, teen movie Sydney White is directed by Joe Nussbaum and stars Amanda Bynes, Matt Long, Sara Paxton.