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Saved!
When a chief actor leaves a movie, it almost always spells catastrophe representing the film. However, when Anne Hathaway pink Saved! (due to a scheduling war) it was to the head start of Brian Dannelly's spiritual-minded pasquinade as it resulted in the casting of Christian pop star/actress Mandy Moore as Bible-perfect bitch Hilary Faye. A situation that would have died in the hands of the gentle Hathaway, Moore's gameness together with the force of her real-life story religious convictions makes the abortion-clinic picketing teen just one of the tons lavish points of this innovative and often rather amusing film. Set in Baltimore, Saved! stars Donnie Darko's Jena Malone as Mary, a favourable Christian crumpet whose certainty is tested when it turns out her boyfrien...
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