Name: Jennifer’s Body (2009)
Start: 2024-10-24T19:00:00-04:00
Location: Tampa Theatre

$Jennifer\u2019s Body (2009)$ A Nightmare on Franklin Street” series event
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1h 42m / R / Comedy, Horror
TRAILER:

VENUE: Historic Duncan Auditorium
$10.00 - General Admission
$7.00 - Tampa Theatre Members
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The rare convergence of four controversial but unmistakable creative forces (director Karyn Kusama, writer Diablo Cody, producer Jason Reitman and star Megan Fox), Jennifer’s Body is the story two high school best friends, Anita (called “Needy”) and Jennifer. Jennifer has always been a bit bossy and domineering with Needy, but ever since the night they went to a rock show and Jennifer left with the band, she’s been acting even more weird than usual. Like “eating people” weird.
Roger Ebert called Jennifer’s Body “Twilight for boys” and look, any critic with a long enough career is going to have some bad calls. But that’s about as wrong as wrong gets, completely missing the point of both movies. Maybe that shouldn’t be surprising. Jennifer’s Body does the thing all “cult” movies do — it communicates something to a fraction of its audience that slips unnoticed past the rest. It connects the alienated. In this case, the message is: isn’t it scary that, as a teenaged girl, you probably had very close friendships break apart just because some boy wanted to sleep with one of you? Isn’t it strange how much you hated your best friend sometimes? Jennifer’s Body casts light on that shadowy moment of adolescence when sex begins to shift everything, when you begin to feel that your body isn’t yours alone. But if your body doesn’t belong to you, who does it belong to?
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Discover the rest of the 2024 “A Nightmare on Franklin Street” series lineup at https://tampatheatre.org/tour-category/nightmare/
Support for the 2024 A Nightmare on Franklin Street series is provided in part by Melting Pot Social. Promotional support is provided by Spookala, Florida’s Horror Convention and Axios Tampa Bay.