The hijinks of Evangelical Christian teenagers are the subject of Saved!, the 2004 comedy set in the halls of American Eagle High School. Writer/Director Brian Dannelly goes for a hard-hitting satire of the idiosyncrasies of Evangelical America, but does he achieve it? Or his movie just hitting at the low-hanging fruit of teenage zealots.
ZF, Erv and Andrew unpack how the high-school comedy genre mixes with conservative Christianity. And whether Mandy Moore’s Hilary Faye is Meaner than the mean girls in Mean Girls. Plus, one of Macauley Culkin last feature roles.
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Next week on the Stake Podcast: Notting Hill.
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