Bandslam 2009  PG, 111 min.
Genre: Musical / Comedy / Drama
Director: Todd Graff
Cast: Alyson Michalka, Vanessa Hudgens, Gaelen Connell, Lisa Kudrow, Scott Porter, Ryan Donawho, Charlie Saxton, Tim Jo, David Bowie, Elvy Yost, Lisa Chung, J.W. Wright, Landon Henninger, Todd Graff
As a newcomer at his high school, Will Burton (Gaelen Connell) is an outcast, but he does make friends with misfit Sa5m (Vanessa Hudgens). Then, popular classmate, singer/songwriter Charlotte Banks (Alyson Michalka) asks Will to manage her rock band in preparation for the Bandslam competition in which she wants to beat her ex-boyfriend Ben Wheatly's (Scott Porter) band. Will just might make it possible for Charlotte's band to excel in the competition.
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Easy A 2010  PG-13, 92 min.
Genre: Comedy / Romance
Director: Will Gluck
Cast: Emma Stone, Penn Badgley, Amanda Bynes, Dan Byrd, Thomas Haden Church, Patricia Clarkson, Cam Gidandet, Lisa Kudrow, Malcolm McDowell, Alyson Michalka, Stanley Tucci, Fred Armisen, Juliette Goglia, Jake Sandvig, Morgan Rusler
Teenager Olive Penderghast (Emma Stone) wants to be popular and uses the heroine, Hester Prynne from Nathaniel Hawthorne's "The Scarlet Letter," as her model. Olive makes up a story about a hot night of sex with a fictional boy and tells the tale to her best friend Rhiannon (Alyson Michalka). Word spreads about Olive's debauchery, and she welcomes the attention she is finally getting from her classmates. She stitches a scarlet "A" on her clothes and proudly enjoys her notoriety. He helps out classmate Brandon (Dan Byrd) and others by pretending to sleep with them. Matters peak when Jesus freak Marianne (Amanda Bynes) tries to get Olive kicked out of school, and Olive realizes that it might be too late to tell the truth.
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The Roommate 2011  PG-13, 93 min.
Genre: Drama / Thriller
Director: Christian E. Christiansen
Cast: Leighton Meester, Minka Kelly, Cam Gigandet, Alyson Michalka, Danneel Harris, Frances Fisher, Tomas Arana, Billy Zane, Nina Dobrev, Matt Lanter, Katerina Graham, Johannes Raassina, Cameron Fisher Brousseau, Evan Michael Brown, Alex Meraz
UCLA freshman Sara Matthews (Minka Kelly) arrives at school and meets her dorm roommate Rebecca (Leighton Meester) who is a borderline schizophrenic and is not taking her medications. Sara falls in love with Stephen (Cam Gigandet), and it interferes with Rebecca's dream of bonding with Sara. Rebecca becomes intensely possessive of Sara, which endangers Sara, Stephen, and Sara's friend Tracy (Alyson Michalka), and, when Rebecca believes that Sara is planning to move out, violence erupts.
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| 1. Bandslam (2009)
2. Easy A (2010)
3. The Roommate (2011)
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