Everybody's Doing It

Everybody's Doing It (2002)

TIME: Approx. 91 Min.

Director: Jeff Beesley

Screenwriter: James LaRosa

Starring: Lizzy Caplan, Eugene Lipinski, Brooke D'Orsay

Plot: A typical American High School is the background for this teen-oriented film which examines the ideas of choice, peer pressure and manipulation as it pertains to sexual activity/abstinence.

Review and Questions: I can't remember the last time a film educated, excited, and pissed me off at the same time. While Everybody's Doing It, isn't an amazing film, it is highly entertaining. Some of the characters like Claire, are so irritating. They're the type of girls you just wish someone would beat up (even though you don't like women being beat on).

Not everyone's a virgin. If what we see on t.v. and magazines isn't an indication. When you have the choice to be a virgin, and choose to remain that way, that's great. When you decide you want to have sex, hey, as long as it's protected, and you're doing it because you want to, that's great. The point is that whatever you decide to do with YOUR body is YOUR choice. Unless, you're a minor, in which case your parents have the say.

I don't need a pledge card, or a promise ring to remind me of what I will and will not do.

Was I hooked the first 15 minutes? Yes, I loved the opening. The book of facts was a nice touch.

Did I enjoy the characters? Was the acting good? All of the characters were really good. It was just so irritating how nearly everyone pretended in order not to be ostracized. Peer pressure. Initially it seemed good, but everyone should know by now, that when you ban something, for some reason most people want it more.

How original is it? This is a unique take on a serious issue. Instead of guys trying to lose their virginity (happens a little in the beginning) everyone is trying to be virgins. I appreciate they didn't make it about boys getting laid. It was nice not to see girls portrayed as sluts, although some were called that a few times.

Favorite Quotes/Scenes:

Did you take any precautions. Oh no, but we were safe.

Introduction to abstinence teacher with Dino's Pizza.

Everybody else is doing it. How can everyone else be wrong?

The theater scene when the infections were performing.

Practically everything Caroline said, only because she made me want to slap the crap out of her, nearly every time.

Recommend: If you don't mind kids trying not to give it up.