This is a must-see and one of the best documentaries - and films - of this year.

The film may be flawed, but its message is not.

By the time the dramatic fireworks start popping off, each one feels earned.

The tone of this movie is interesting -- the stakes are both dramatic and high, but it's balanced with a lot of fun, tongue and cheek dialogue.

Strike (1998): Dir: Sarah Kemochan / Cast: Kirsten Dunst, Gaby Hoffmann, Rachel Leigh Cook, Lynn Redgrave, Vincent Kartheiser: Combination of National Lampoon's Animal House and Rock N' Roll High School but lacking the comic wit of both. Title refers to Kirsten Dunst's refusal to change. Hopefully after being part of this film she will require a major change. An all girl school is threatened with the possibility of going co-ed. This threatens misfit Dunst who is often late for classes and sabotages anything she considers a threat. Gaby Hoffmann is the new student who believes that the school should speak out. Vulgar and somewhat sexist with Dunst stashing liquor bottles about a bus and the boys who arrive innocent end up puking on everything. Directed by Sarah Kernochan with some fine location areas. This film is also saddled with several names, which can be a bitch when locating it. Dunst and Hoffmann play opposites but neither character obtains a personality. Dreary supporting work by Rachel Leigh Cook as the standard rival who will stop at nothing to expose Dunst. Lynn Reggrave plays the headmistress who cannot think for herself. She is suppose to be in charge but too often she is taking advice from people who are seen as total morons. Everything seems recycled and terribly dull but its message at least rings true. Strong co-ed theme elevates but the crude humour poise a strike against it. Score: 3 / 10

I stumbled across this movie on TV and was surprised I'd never heard of it. The title is forgettable, but the film certainly isn't. This movie really captures something universal about women's education, starting with cute preppy girls acting all bad-ass and rebellious...then slowly realizing they have actual power to change things in the world. Delightful performances, hilarious situations and a positive feminine tone. I liked how the main characters got what they wanted—and then realized they were better than that.Having been part of the Mills College Student Strike in 1991, I also found this movie to be very meaningful in light of the fact that Mills was the only women's college to actually turn around a decision to go co-ed (Mrs. Godards's is, alas, fictional). Insightful and incisive writing is so subtly well-nestled in the plot you don't realize it's political. Kristen Dunst's rantings at the DAR's secret meeting and Vanessa Redgrave's bitter tantrum at the beginning of the third act provide some great insights into the state of women's education.Some of the reviews on this site are alarmingly condescending. One guy writes (yes, in all caps and with more exclamation points than a teenage girl), "THE LIVES OF TEENAGE GIRLS ARE UNINTERESTING!!!!" I find it so sad that this sort of judgment seems to have kept audiences away from what really should have been as big a hit as Dead Poet's Society (more interesting, presumably, because it was about boys and someone died) had been a decade earlier.

Just watched this yesterday and thoroughly enjoyed but 30 minutes in the film, the plot became very familiar. SPOILER WARNING - The exclusive girls school, the club they have created, the annoying head girl, the party, the spiked punch, and the lead girl getting expelled for having sex. Have a look at the 1978 film called Boarding School starring Nastassja Kinski. Maybe it is a remake but I see no recognition of that anywhere. The boys are introduced into the film differently but it is so close that it cannot be a coincidence. If is not a new version of that film then Sarah Kernochan should be ashamed. Enjoyed it all the same and the lead girls are all good but not a patch on Kinski.

I love this movie. I have seen it over and over and never get tired of it! I love the club they made: The D.A.R (Daughters of the American Ravioli) I just wonder about the girls and the boys sometimes....sometimes they want the boys and sometimes they want nothing at all to do with them!