Clueless (film)

Clueless is a 1995 American comingofage comedy film. It is loosely based on Jane Austens 1815 novel Emma. It stars Alicia Silverstone in the lead role, Stacey Dash, Paul Rudd, and Brittany Murphy. The film is set in Beverly Hills and was written and directed by Amy Heckerling and produced by Scott Rudin. It was released in the United States on July 21, 1995.

Cherilyn Cher Horowitz is a goodnatured but superficial girl who is attractive, popular, and extremely wealthy. A few months shy of her sixteenth birthday, she has risen to the top of the high school social scene. She lives in a Beverly Hills mansion with her father Mel, a ferocious 500anhour litigator her mother died from a freak accident during a routine liposuction procedure when Cher was a baby. Chers best friend is Dionne Davenport, who is also rich, pretty, and hip, and understands what its like to be envied. Though Dionne has a longterm relationship with popular student Murray, Cher claims that it is a pointless endeavor.Among the few people to find much fault with Cher is Josh, her socially conscious exstepbrother, who visits during a break from college. Josh and Cher spar continually but without malice she mocks his scruffy idealism, while he teases her for being selfish, vain, and superficial, and says that her only direction in life is toward the mall. ........

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