Speak

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Call Number: DVD Drama Speak
On Shelf At: Downtown Library

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Originally broadcast on Showtime in 2004.
Based on the novel by Laurie Halse Anderson.
Special features: photo gallery; director's commentary; filmographies; study guide; behind the scenes.
Kristen Stewart, Robert John Burke, Eric Lively, Elizabeth Perkins, D.B. Sweeney, Steve Zahn.
Speak unfolds a story about Melinda, a smart and spirited high school freshman who retreats into self-imposed silence after she is raped one night at a party. Eventually through her work in art class, she begins to reach out to others.
DVD, region 1, widescreen presentation; Dolby Digital.

COMMUNITY REVIEWS

good movie submitted by noor82 on August 23, 2010, 7:03pm very moving movie am sure lots of girls like Melinda in USA high school being bulled around very sad.

Meh submitted by ekgolden on August 3, 2011, 7:06pm book was better. Kristen Stewart wasnt that great.

Eh... submitted by xjasx on June 16, 2012, 10:22pm The book was great, the movie was......eh...not really taht good. Wish it was better.

speak submitted by unknown on July 30, 2013, 3:10pm In what Publishers Weekly named a "stunning debut," Melinda Sordino gives up talking before her freshman year of high school. Shunned by her classmates, who misunderstand why she called the cops after a party over the summer, Melinda's grades plummet and she becomes withdrawn. She is not without her reasons: Melinda is trying to cope with being raped by an upperclassman who still taunts her in the new school year. Hailed as a book "all teens should read" by one Amazon customer, Speak is about "a horrible event dealt with using lyrical prose, humor, and deep honesty" says another. A 2000 Printz Honor Book, 1999 National Book Award finalist, and 1999 Los Angeles Times Book Prize finalist, Kirkus concluded that Laurie Halse Anderson's first novel is "hard for readers to forget."

Parental Advisory: rape.