So randomly I stumbled across this movie on TV. Frankly, it didn’t appeal to me, I mean look at the synopsis on IMDB.com!

In a Christian school (not Catholic), the fanatic and wealthy Hilary Faye (Mandy Moore) and Mary (Jena Malone) are best friends. Their friendship ends when Mary gets pregnant, after having sex with her gay boy-friend trying to “save” him, and questions Jesus’ will. Meanwhile, the rebel Jewish Cassandra (Eva Amurri) dates Hillary’s brother, the crippled Roland (Macaulay Culkin), and together with the newcomer son of the local pastor, Patrick (Patrick Fugit), they become the new friends of Mary, supporting her situation. Written by Claudio Carvalho

Honestly, it’s nothing that appeals to me. But I was wrong. Completely wrong.

This movie was great, I sat their cracking up at the funny parts, enjoying myself completely. I mean when Mary found out her (totally hot Ice Skater) boyfriend was gay she was convinced it was her job to save him. So she tried, even giving up her virginity to him. But it didn’t work, and he’s shipped off to Mercy House, one of those lovely places that try and fix you. The gays, alcoholics, druggies, unwed mothers. Basically the scum of society really.

Unfortunately there’s a consequence of having unprotected sex has, as Mary was about to figure out. Kinda sucked since their only sex-ed class was pretty much two minutes of “good Christians wait until marriage”.

So now Mary is pregnant, and her beliefs are shaken a little. She’s been brought up to believe everything, saving yourself until marriage, Jesus loves everyone.

Obviously Mary ends up changing, and she does sum everything up kind of nicely at the end when arguing with the pastor,

Why would God make us all so different if he wanted us to be the same?

I’m a sucker for sappy movies, which is why I liked this one.