Superstar Page #5

Synopsis: Orphan Mary Katherine Gallagher, an ugly duckling at St. Monica High School, has a dream: to be kissed soulfully. She decides she can realize this dream if she becomes a superstar, so her prayers, her fantasies, and her conversations with her only friend focus on achieving super-stardom. Her big chance is a school talent contest; her main competition is Evian, the school beauty, who is dancing with Sky, the object of Mary Katherine's kiss dream. Mary Katherine gets some talent-show help from her fellow special education students, her grandma, and Jesus, and inspiration from secrets in her past. Watching are Sky, Evian, and a silent classmate.
Genre: Comedy, Romance
Director(s): Bruce McCulloch
Production: Paramount Pictures
  2 nominations.
 
IMDB:
5.1
Metacritic:
42
Rotten Tomatoes:
32%
PG-13
Year:
1999
81 min
Website
2,997 Views


Like I was there.

Well, we seem to have a lot of--

I feel really good about

our chances, don't you, Sky ?

Do you hear something, Dylan ?

'Cause it sounds like someone

I used to go out with...

acting like we're still going out,

even though we're definitely not.

- [Dylan] Definitely not.

- No.

Game over.

The devil went down

to Georgia

He was looking

for a soul to steal

He was in a bind

'cause he was way behind

And he was willing

to make a deal

When he came across

this young man

Sawing on a fiddle

and playing it hot

"Andthe devil jumped up

on a hickory stump and said"

" "Boy, let me tell you what"

And the devil's in you

and the devil's in me

- The devil's got a big hard--

- Uh, Maria !

Thank you, Maria.

Thank you.

Next up we have, um,

Mary Katherine--

Gallagher !

Mary Katherine Gallagher.

Mary Katherine Gallagher.

Mary Katherine Gallagher.

Okay, just stand there.

Here. Stand here.

Come. Stand there.

Stand there. That's good.

So, what are you going

to do for us, Mary ?

I just wanna say...

that I'm multitalented,

but today I've chosen

to express myself through song.

Okay.

- You

-"[Piano]

You ask me

if I love you

And I choke on my reply

"l'd rather tell you honestly"

Than mislead you with a lie

And sometimes

when we touch

The honesty's too much

"I have to close my eyes"

And hide

I wanna hold you

till I die

Till we both break down

And cry

I wanna hold you

" Till the fear in me"

Subsides

- Mary, that was-- that was good.

- [Applause Continues]

- Good.

- Superstar !

[Boy Laughing]

- [ Laughing Hysterically ]

- Shut up !

You said you liked the movie Carrie.

How do you like it now, Mary ?

- Retard !

- Shut up !

- Boobsweat!

- Shut up !

Retard!

- This is not funny. Shut up, man !

- Mary !

Mary ?

[Motorcycle Engine Revving]

-" You're motorin '"

- Mary Katherine, please !

-" What's your price for flight"

- Mary !

"ln finding Mr. Right"

" You'll be allright tonight"

"Motorin '"

" What's your price for flight"

" You've got him in your sights"

" You're driving through the night"

"Sister Christian

Oh, the time has come"

"And you know that you're

the only one to say"

Slater, would you talk to me ?

Can you please just say

something to me, please ?

Your birthmark looks like sh*t.

You're the little boy

that I saved at the pool ?

Yeah.

"But you're motorin "

So why does everyone

think you're crazy ?

Because I n-n-n-n-n-never talk.

So people make up stories.

And I'd rather that

they're scared of me than...

make fun of my st-st-stutter.

So what really happened

to your parents ?

They were savagely ripped apart...

and eaten by a school

of hammerhead sharks.

- That happens a lot.

- Yeah.

Hey, Slater,

I know I haven't known you

that long or anything, but...

can I ask you a question ?

Yeah.

Do you think I'm pretty ?

Sometimes I just--

I just hate the way I am.

I just hate the way I am.

I'm sorry I almost drowned you.

That's all right. I was probably

drowning before you got there.

- I'm a horrible swimmer.

- Really ?

That's funny.

Mary ?

I think you look... great.

I think you look beautiful.

Well, I'm gonna go wash off.

Do you wanna come with me ?

- What are you doing ?

- Uh, t-t-t-testing the water.

There's two ways

that you can get into the water.

That way or... this way !

Whoa,

[ Chuckles ]

I slid.

This is my house.

So, thanks.

Hey, Slater.

Did you really mean it when you said

that you thought I looked beautiful?

Yeah.

Do you think that even

without the talent show,

Sky would still wanna kiss me ?

I think Sky would have to be

cr-cr-crazy not to wanna kiss you.

Really ?

Oh ! Thanks.

I'll, uh, see you later, Mary.

[Engine Revving]

Oh, God.

Thank you so much

for making Slater my friend.

And please, God, forgive me...

for not telling Slater that I went

to the bathroom in the pool tonight.

I had a dream

"A dream about you, baby"

- Hi, Grandma.

-"lt's gonna come true, baby"

Sorry I'm late.

I stayed at school

to study business,

and I lost track of time.

Father Ritley called.

He told me you tried out

for the talent show.

I'm sorry. I never

should have done that.

I promise I'll never

lie toyou again, okay ?

- You made it.

- Made what ?

You passed the audition.

I did ? I did ?

Oh, my goodness !

[ Laughing ]

Really ? I did ?

But they want you to lose

the end with the paint.

Really ? Please let me do it.

Please let me do it.

I can't let you be

in any talent show, Mary.

But I can help you to star in one.

You see that there ?

I danced in that show on Broadway.

And these dead stems...

used to step-ball-change...

two shows a day,

six days a week.

If you're going

on the stage, Mary,

I don't want you

stinking up the place...

with some paint dance.

Grandma, you don't know

how much this means to me.

There's this boy at school--

No boys.

If you're going to do this,

you're going to do it for yourself,

like I did.

- Higher ! Kick higher !

- I can't. It's hard.

- Razzle, dazzle !

- I don't know what that means.

- Windmill, windmill !

- Windmill, windmill.

Oh, Frances !

Sweet Frances, please don't die.

Frances, Frances, please don't die.

Frances, go back.

She needs you.

Go back.

You wanna go fetch ?

Go fetch.

Go fetch. That way,

my dog friend. Go on.

- Frances.

- [ Growls ]

[Frances Yipping]

She's alive !

You're all right.

Super. Now,

if we really want to knock them

on their keisters,

we're going to need

a chorus line.

One, two--

- What's his problem ?

- I got the D.T.'s, Mrs. Gallagher.

D.T.'s are from being drunk,

not high, you fruit.

He's got his fake addictions

confused, Mrs. Gallagher.

No, l-- I'm just so high...

I think I'm drunk.

We've got two days

to the big show.

So when I say kick,

you want to kick.

When I say dip, you dip.

When I say tap, you tap.

- When I say--

- They get it, Grandma.

I've got two more. When I say

booga-booga, you booga-booga.

- What's "booga-booga" mean ?

- I don't know.

But if I say it,

you better f***in' figure it out.

"My life"

"Is ever so perfect"

"My life"

"Has been a bed of roses"

"And you might think I'm crazy"

"So what, if I am"

"My head is full of good things"

-"Enough for everyone"

- Whoa !

-"Beautiful"

- I slipped. Everything's fine.

-"All I see when I look at me"

- Slip-a-roo.

"Beautiful"

"Every mother's dream"

"Day by day"

" What"

"A wonderful life"

Yeah !

[ Whistling ]

Superstar.

- [Man] Hi there !

- [Woman] Howdy, neighbor.

[Man] Undeviled eggs !

Lady crucifingers !

- There's my grandmother.

- Oh, my God.

[Man]

It's all MaryMag-delicious !

There's Maria's parents.

"[Piano]

- [Applause]

-"[Ends]

Good evening, everyone !

Welcome to St. Monica's

Catholic High School.

So, are we all ready to fight VD ?

I hope that you're as excited

as I am...

to see who will win

this free trip to Hollywood...

with a chance to appear

as an extra...

in a movie

with positive moral values.

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Molly Shannon

Molly Helen Shannon (born September 16, 1964) is an American actress who was a cast member on Saturday Night Live from 1995 to 2001. In 2017 she won the Film Independent Spirit Award for Best Supporting Actress for her role in the film Other People. She has appeared in supporting roles in a number of films, such as A Night at the Roxbury (1998), Never Been Kissed (1999), How the Grinch Stole Christmas (2000), Osmosis Jones (2001), My Boss's Daughter (2003), Talladega Nights: The Ballad of Ricky Bobby (2006), and Me and Earl and the Dying Girl (2015). Her voice can also be heard in Igor (2008) and the Hotel Transylvania film series. more…

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