54: fueled by ambitions of stardom, an eager boy from Jersey City finds work behind the velvet ropes of Studio 54, a decadent playground for the rich & famous. In the Director’s Cut, Shane O’Shea rubs elbows & knocks boots as he hustles his way up from bus-boy to bartender!
I know this is considered a classic, and I really am glad I watched it, but I think I waited until I was too old to appreciate it fully before I watched it. The IMDb page for this movie even says that the target audience is teenagers, so I should have watched it when I was that age. However, I can appreciate it as an adaptation of Jane Austen’s Emma. As far as adaptations go, I really like it. Emma is a classic story, which is why Clueless works so well. Clueless kept all the elements that make Emma, Emma; but they modernized it really well. I’ve seen movies that tried to modernize a classic, and it didn’t work nearly as well as Clueless did. It’s definitely worth a watch.
Sex/nudity: 2/10 (kissing, making out, many references to sex/virginity)
Language: 2/10 (mostly sh*t, some other milder terms)
Violence: 2/10 (one instance of mild sexual assault, one robbery at gunpoint, one other mild scene)