STRIKE!
I’ve never understood the criminal underratedness of one of my favorite teen comedies of all time: STRIKE! (trailer here), a.k.a. ALL I WANNA DO, a.k.a. THE HAIRY BIRD. (Well, maybe having three different titles, one of which is shared with a seminal silent film about factory workers in pre-revolutionary Russia, has something to do with it.) But this movie has everything, starting with a great young cast, many of whom have since become very familiar faces—including Kirsten Dunst, Merritt Wever, Vincent Kartheiser, Gaby Hoffman, Heather Matarazzo, and Rachel Leigh Cook—plus, Hollywood royalty Lynn Redgrave. The film centers on a group of girls at a boarding school who revolt after discovering the board’s plans to go co-ed with a neighboring boys’ institution in the 1960s. It’s a coming-of-age movie that manages to be both raunchy and sweet while making interesting points about gender and sex. Not to mention, it’s highly quotable… “No more little white gloves!”
—Alicia Devereaux, Development Assistant
