Sincerely Recommended Film/ Book ~ SPEAK

I watched the movie. It's awesome. I love this it is my favourite script in the world. Kristen've done a great job! She is definitely a brilliant actress. If you haven't read/watch it I sincerely recommend to you. If you have the book, do you mind to borrow me? Thanks to Laurie Halse Anderson for writing this amazing story.

Speak is a 2004 independent film based on the award-winning novel of the same name by Laurie Halse Anderson. It stars a then thirteen-year-old Kristen Stewart as Melinda Sordino, a high school freshman who becomes silent after being raped by an upperclassman. The film is told through Melinda's eyes and is wrought with her sardonic humor and blunt honesty.

Synopsis

Melinda Sordino starts out her freshman year in high school being labeled a "squealer" for calling the police to a house party the previous summer. Her real reason for calling 911 was that she was raped at the party by a senior, Andy Evans. Melinda has been so silenced by her rape that she cannot find the words to tell anybody what happened to her. Melinda is shunned by her friends from middle school, including her ex-best-friend Rachel Bruin, and is forced to deal with social rejection.Melinda is unable to tell her parents about the experience, and although her parents notice a change in their daughter, they are unable to determine the cause.



Casts

~Kristen Stewart
~Michael Angarano
~Allison Siko
~Hallee Hirsh
~Eric Lively
~Steve Zahn
~Elizabeth Perkins
~D.B. Sweeney
~Robert John Burke
~Kimberly Kish
~Leslie Lyles

Memorable Quotes

Melinda Sordino: “It’s easier not to say anything . . . Nobody really wants to hear what you have to say.”

Mr. Freeman: "Hi everybody! Welcome to Art. *The* only class that will teach you how to survive. This is where you can find your soul, if you dare. Don't ask me to show you how to draw a face. Ask me to help you find the wind."

Melinda Sordino: "All that crap you hear on TV about communication and expressing feelings is a lie. No one really cares what you have to say."

Melinda Sordino: "It happened. There's no avoiding it. No forgetting."

Melinda Sordino: "Gym should be illegal. It's humiliating."

Trailer

Sincerely Recommended Film/ Book ~ SPEAK