Pretty Persuasion is a provocative, darkly comic satire about a 15-year-old private school girl who spearheads a sexual harassment lawsuit against her English teacher sending her community into chaos.

Life is pretty good for Kimberly Joyce (Evan Rachel Wood). She’s a sophomore at the most exclusive private school in Beverly Hills, has a loyal best friend in Brittany (Elisabeth Harnois), a promising new friend in Palestinian immigrant Randa (Adi Schnall), a hot, football-playing boyfriend in Barry (Mike Erwin) – heck, she’s even still friends with her ex-boyfriend Troy (Stark Sands), even though he’s now dating Brittany. Plus, she’s just landed the lead role in the school production of The Diary of Anne Frank, a big step towards realizing her dream of being a world-famous actress. Sure, her father Hank (James Woods) is a pill-popping bigot, and her 22-year-old stepmother, Kathy, (Jaime King) a vapid gold-digger, but they’re fabulously wealthy, and let Kimberly do as she pleases.

But there’s one dark blot in Kimberly’s life: her creepy English teacher, Percy Anderson (Ron Livingston), who does stuff to her and her girlfriends. One night at a sleepover, after viewing one of Hank’s pornos and binging-and-purging on Twinkies, the girls decide they’ve had enough. They file a lawsuit against Percy for sexual harassment.

The case becomes a media sensation. Emily Klein (Jane Krakowski), an ambitious local TV reporter who’d been assigned a puff piece on Kimberly’s school, sees the scandal as her big break, and runs with it (even though she loses all objectivity when she – along with the rest of the nation – becomes totally smitten with the poised, beautiful, and articulate Kimberly). Meanwhile, Percy, who can afford only the school’s idiotic law teacher, Roger Nicholl (Danny Comden) as counsel, takes a beating as the girls testify in court, and loses the trust of his wife Grace (Selma Blair).

Are the girls telling the truth, or making it all up? Is Kimberly a true friend, or a ruthless manipulator? In a world saturated with sex, silicone, and low-carb diets, how far will one determined girl go to grab the brass ring of our time --celebrity?