... who also did Friends with Benefits and has a lot of TV experience.
Emma Stone becomes labelled as a 'skank' and various other terms of endearment when she pretends to have lost her virginity, falling out with friend Ali Michalka but at least having the support of cool teacher Thomas Haden Church and in great relationship with wisecracking parents Stanley Tucci and Patricia Clarkson (these scenes all work really well), Clarkson also was in Friends..
The old silent film referenced is indeed the 1926 Sjöstrom version of The Scarlet Letter with Lillian Gish. I didn't know that one, though references to 80s movies are rather easier to recognise.
Penn Badgley is the nice guy, Lisa Kudrow a back-stabbing counsellor and Malcolm McDowell the principal.
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