BUT I'M A CHEERLEADER (1999) ¢ ¢ ¢ 1/2
D: Jamie Babitt
Natasha Lyonne, Clea DuVall, Michelle Williams,
Cathy Moriarty, Bud Cort, Mink Stole, RuPaul,
Melanie Lynskey, Douglas Spain, Kip Pardue
A high-school cheerleader gets sent off to one of those places that's supposed to turn gay teenagers into straight ones, in a comedy that's kind of where John Hughes and John Waters meet up, but without Waters' good-natured depravity. (Mink Stole has a small role as the girl's mother.) An amusing take on a subject that in the real world can be pretty horrifying. Clea DuVall stands out as a fellow inmate, a lesbian for whom aversion therapy is definitely not going to work.
