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Synopsis: Orphan Mary Katherine Gallagher, an ugly duckling at St. Monica High School, has a dream: to be kissed soulfully. She decides she can realize this dream if she becomes a superstar, so her prayers, her fantasies, and her conversations with her only friend focus on achieving super-stardom. Her big chance is a school talent contest; her main competition is Evian, the school beauty, who is dancing with Sky, the object of Mary Katherine's kiss dream. Mary Katherine gets some talent-show help from her fellow special education students, her grandma, and Jesus, and inspiration from secrets in her past. Watching are Sky, Evian, and a silent classmate.
Genre: Comedy, Romance
Director(s): Bruce McCulloch
Production: Paramount Pictures
  2 nominations.
 
IMDB:
5.1
Metacritic:
42
Rotten Tomatoes:
32%
PG-13
Year:
1999
81 min
Website
2,632 Views


- Drugs are bad.

- Eric Slater ? Hmm ?

[ Both ] Retards !

[ Laughing ]

Would you please go back

to your own class? Please. Go !

Mr. Slater, I presume. Hmm ?

How come he's not answering?

Slater just transferred here

from public school.

He's crazy.

They say he chopped up his parents.

And now he never talks.

[Clears Throat] Let's try it again.

Eric Slater? Hmm ?

Yes, well, moving on.

[ Clears Throat ]

[ Chuckles ]

Hey, new friend.

Did you see that sign

they're putting up?

"Catholic Teenager Magazine

presents...

"the Let's Fight Venereal Disease

Talent Contest.

"Winner gets a free trip

to Hollywood--

[ Both ]

And a chance to be an extra...

in a movie

with positive moral values."

Oh, God.

[Man]

Miss Gallagher!

Miss Gallagher, so how

does it feel to be an extra...

in a movie

with positive moral values ?

- It feels okay.

- [Man] Miss Gallagher.

How does it feel to have

everyone wanna kiss you...

that particular way

you wanna be kissed ?

Miss Gallagher,

howdoes it feel to be a superstar?

[Mary]

This was my chance.

If I could win the talent contest,

Sky's lips would definitely be mine.

Hey, everybody. I dreamt of

this new dance move last night.

I call this The Fax Machine.

- [ Buzzing ]

- Oh !

I wish I could dance

with Sky Corrigan.

Sky's definitely the Swayziest,

but he's gonna dance with Evian.

- Exactly! You did it perfectly.

- [ Laughing ]

You're so good.

[ Engine Rewing ]

What do you think Slater

would do in the talent show ?

Maybe he'll murder some people...

and make a flesh coat

by sewing their skin hides together.

[ Groans ]

I'm sorry.

I was rewinding Silence of the Lambs

at the video store yesterday.

lsn't it romantic

"Merely to be young"

On such a night

As this

lsn't it romantic

Merely to be young

On such a night as this

Sweet

Singing in the moonlight

[ Man Speaking ]

lntroductions are important.

When introducing oneself,

first make eye contact.

With a confident smile,

say, "Hi. I'm--"

- Mary Katherine Gallagher.

- Not bad. Try again.

Hi. I'm Mary Katherine Gallagher.

- And where is your hand ?

- Right here.

In a new friend's hand,

that's where.

[TV]

[ Slurping ]

So, I was--

[ Clears Throat ]

I was saying that I was thinking

of entering the talent contest.

The talent contest ?

No, no ! You have

to study business.

- But--

- No buts !

[Mary] And forgive those

who trespass against us.

Please, God, convince my grandmother

to let me be in the talent show...

so that I can get kissed,

maybe by Sky Corrigan.

[ Whistling ]

Superstar !

The Body of Christ.

- The Body of Christ.

- Amen.

- The Body of Christ.

- Are these nonfat ?

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Molly Shannon

Molly Helen Shannon (born September 16, 1964) is an American actress who was a cast member on Saturday Night Live from 1995 to 2001. In 2017 she won the Film Independent Spirit Award for Best Supporting Actress for her role in the film Other People. She has appeared in supporting roles in a number of films, such as A Night at the Roxbury (1998), Never Been Kissed (1999), How the Grinch Stole Christmas (2000), Osmosis Jones (2001), My Boss's Daughter (2003), Talladega Nights: The Ballad of Ricky Bobby (2006), and Me and Earl and the Dying Girl (2015). Her voice can also be heard in Igor (2008) and the Hotel Transylvania film series. more…

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