Damsels in Distress

Knight in shining armor (Bravo Design, Inc.)Four beautiful girls set out to revolutionize the grungy, male-dominated environment of the Seven Oaks college campus, that still prevails decades after coeducation’s arrival. The group consists of Violet Wister (Greta Gerwig), the group’s dynamic cardigan-clad leader, Rose (Megalyn Echikunwoke), Heather (Carrie MacLemore) and Lily (Analeigh Tipton). Their principal mission is the Suicide Prevention Center where with coffee, doughnuts and dancing lessons, they hope to curb severe depression, bad outfits and general despair. Violet, the group’s ringleader summarizes it best when she explains to Lily, “Have you ever heard the expression, ‘Prevention is 9/10ths the cure?’ Well, in the case of suicide, it’s actually 10/10ths.” As the story progresses, the girls become romantically entangled with a series of men; including, Charlie (Adam Brody), Xavier (Hugo Becker), Frank (Ryan Metcalf) and Thor (Billy Magnussen) who threaten the girls’ friendship and sanity.

Leslie Felperin of Variety writes, “A film that raises laughs even with its end credits, Whit Stillman’s whimsical campus comedy ‘Damsels in Distress’ is an utter delight. Stillman proves he still knows how to write crackling, articulate dialogue for quirky preppie characters whom he loves laughing at as much as with.”

Damsels in Distress will be released on April 6, 2012.

Rating: PG-13
Genre: Comedy
Runtime: 1 hr. 39 min.
Starring: Greta Gerwig, Adam Brody and Analeigh Tipton
Directed and Written By: Whit Stillman
Distributed By: Sony Pictures Classics
Produced By: Westerly Films