the bad part about this film be that it do not have to be so terrible . they have a nice budget and though so do many film while they make it look slick and pretty and and best of all they have the 21st century lesbian savvy audience who would embrace a lesbian positive film . and yet the writer and director go out of their way to lift every single redone film bit about lesbian torment and confusion at boarding school and ( you know and the place all lesbian love life and dy ) . this be a theme that have be do again and again and again in film and but something that viewer if one use this vote forum a a clue can not seem to get enough of . every element of this story be so over the top and excessively phony and contrive that it be painful to sit through . the lead character say it all represent the crazy and abandon and genius and rebel lesbian tough girl ( well and they take a super pretty femme like piper perabo and try to rough her up and but it do not stick much ) seduce pretty rich girl who be destine to betray her . watch them every step of the way be character 3 and a dopey and well meaning and wide eyed and good girl observer . i say every step because she share her every thought with the audience via the stiff and most inane monologue . her line seem to have be write by a fifteen year old and though they be try oh so and so hard to sound like how a fifteen year old would really and um and you know and well . talk . hear them ( make love ) with their noise be um and you know and like and well . okay . she say about her 2 wanton roommate and who roll around in the bed next to her . later she ask graham greene the accomplished native american actor who be completely waste in a roll a a gardener ( . ) be it wrong to care what people think . sorry and but be she a teenager and or be she age 7. grant and piper perabo ( a polly the tortured dyke ) and others do an okay job for the horrible line they be force to utter . perabo have a nice energy level and be obviously very comfortable in front of a camera . she would do well in a decent project and so this be in no way a criticism of the acting . but this story be shameless in perpetuate every single stereotype about lesbian all roll into one character . they couldn not stop with her ( polly ) be an angry and crazy passionate and secret genius who finish math problem for the speechless teacher . oh but that after she argue with the teacher who dare accuse her of gabbing . that a word they ( male ) use against u ( woman ) . she say and stomp out of the classroom . be this all the writer could come up with . or maybe we should ask represent why stop there . poole and co. go on and make polly a poetic dark child who communicate with wild hawk by scream their name in the wood . cue the slow motion and sci fi and xena atmosphere . then we have her writing to her birth mother . ( most lesbian be love starve orphan and in case you be in the dark ) . then we have two teacher ( one uptight and one a zany type with loose neck tie ) who hover around all of the action ( the school look awfully big for just 2 teacher ) . and give dark child or seductress or bird girl tense look . hmmmm . i wonder if something well and you know . um and funny be happen between these two teacher . there be simply no excuse for something this poorly do . heartbreak happens and but surely the writer and director know that lesbian exist in much more sophisticated time than this schlock . i can not reveal the end out of respect to those who force themselves to sit through til the end and but if you be not laugh and i can only guess you be cry . and not for the right reason . and i do not mean the wimpy make out scene .