Saved!

• Jena Malone: Mary
• Mandy Moore: Hilary Faye
• Macaulay Culkin: Roland
• Patrick Fugit Patrick
• Chad Faust: Dean
• Eva Amurri: Cassandra

Saved! - The High School Missionaries is a comedy with Jena Malone and Macaulay Culkin. It was directed by Brian Dannelly, 2004.

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Mary visited with her best friend Hilary Faye, her boyfriend Dean and Hilary Faye's brother Roland, who is confined to a wheelchair, a Christian high school. When Mary learns that Dean is gay, she tries everything to convert him and eventually sacrifices for their virginity. As Dean's parents find a gay magazine in his room, they send him to a Christian boarding school, where he is to be converted.

A little later, Mary discovered that she is pregnant, but can confide in anyone. By chance, however, know the outsider Cassandra, the only Jew in the school, and Roland, who has fallen in love with Cassandra, of Mary's pregnancy and stand with her. Mary away more and more of Hilary Faye and the strictly religious school community.

Hilary Faye is doing everything to win Mary back for themselves and even attempted an exorcism on her. When she realizes that her overzealous efforts are unsuccessful and since you also the relationship between Cassandra and Roland is an eyesore, Hilary Faye defaced the entrance to the school with graffiti and pushes Mary, Cassandra and Roland action in the shoes. Cassandra is then expelled from school, as well as Mary's pregnancy is revealed. As a consequence, Mary is to be sent in the same home in which Dean also staying.

Cassandra and Roland, however, it is possible to uncover Hilary Faye's intrigue. For prom Dean appeared surprisingly on with his new friend. The two left the home to live a life according to their own will. When Mary suddenly gets her labor, she is taken to the hospital, where they bring a daughter into the world. Dean is pleased with his child, and Mary found in the pastor's son Patrick a new friend.

Reviews

• Moviemaze wrote the comedy was " snappy ". Movie starts wrote that the film was "mercilessly great" and parody the setting and " the church mania" of the conservative people in the United States.

Background

The budget of the film was 5 million U.S. dollars; the box office was $ 9 million dollars.

Awards

Brian Dannelly won a prize at the Gen Art Film Festival. Jena Malone was nominated for a Golden Satellite Award. Mandy Moore was nominated for a Teen Choice Award. The film was nominated for a GLAAD Media Award, and the Chlotrudis Award.