Mary Jane's Not A Virgin Anymore

1999, Movie, NR, 96 mins

MARY JANE'S NOT A VIRGIN ANYMORE
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Ragged, sassy and ear-scorchingly blunt, this samizat collection of sex tips for girls woven into a shaggy-dog tale of a teenager in lust is so defiantly scrappy that even if you don't love it you have to give it credit for standing up and being what it is. The handiwork of die-hard do-it-yourselfer Sarah Jacobson -- who made her directing debut at age 19 with a self-distributed, direct-to-video short called I Was a Teenage Serial Killer -- it chronicles the adventures of Mary Jane (Lisa Gerstein), a sexually inexperienced suburban 17-year-old looking for good sex in all the wrong places. After unceremoniously losing her virginity to the jerky Steve (Shane Kramer) in a graveyard, the disappointed Mary Jane turns to her coworkers -- male and female, straight and gay -- at a frighteningly hip downtown movie house, questioning them about their first experiences and subsequent adventures in the land of libido. Increasingly emboldened by their tales, which range from instructive accounts of erotic discovery to sordid chronicles of physical and emotional abuse, Mary Jane pursues her crushes on happy-face collector Ryan (Brandon Stepp), who just wants to be friends, and Tom (Chris Enright), who turns out to be a much better candidate for fun between the sheets. Make no mistake, this is largely a gabfest. But the talk is frank and fresh and sometimes quite funny -- and there are a lot of teenage girls in the world who would probably feel a whole lot better knowing they aren't the only ones mistakenly convinced that everyone in the world can tell they've discovered masturbation by the look in their eyes. leave a comment --Maitland McDonagh
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