Saved

Mary, a rising senior at American Eagle Christian High School, has a great life. Wonderful friends, a great Christian boyfriend named Dean, and a personal relationship with Jesus Christ. But one day, just before the start of school, Dean confides in her that he might be gay. When she makes a deal with God to cure him, her confidence is restored. Until she realizes that missed periods and morning sickness are symptoms of pregnancy...

This movie contains examples of:
"Cassandra: You swear to God you didn't ?"
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 * Armor-Piercing Question:

"Cassandra: There's only one reason Christian girls come down to the Planned Parenthood.
 * Asian Airhead: Veronica.
 * Beta Couple: Roland and Cassandra. Also, Lillian and Pastor Skip.
 * Bitch in Sheep's Clothing: Hilary Faye.
 * Break the Haughty: Happens to twice, first when  and then when
 * Butt Monkey: Tia.
 * California Doubling: Set (vaguely) in the south, filmed in Canada.
 * Can't Get Away with Nuthin': Mary naturally gets pregnant after having sex for the first time. And when she goes to Planned Parenthood for confirmation all the way across town, two of her classmates just happen to be having coffee across the street.
 * Catholic School Girls Rule: While not Catholic, Cassandra's school uniform is very much along these lines.
 * Chekhov's Gun: A certain messianiac billboard at the beginning of the movie will play a part during Hilary Faye's BTH
 * The Charmer: Patrick
 * Christianity Is Catholic: Averted. The characters and the culture are clearly (exaggerated) Evangelical in nature.
 * Cool Car: Cassandra's vintage muscle car.
 * Cure Your Gays: Mary tries to do this with Dean. It fails, kicking off the plot in the process.
 * So do Dean's parents. And Hilary Faye. And Hilary Faye's entire prayer circle. In fact, it's probably the second biggest theme/plot arc of the movie.
 * Dead Baby Comedy

Roland: She's planting a pipe bomb?!

Cassandra: Okay, two reasons."

"Hilary Faye: The Christian thing? I have been doing the Christian thing my entire life. I did not have sex with a gay and try and blame it on Jesus!
 * Deadpan Snarker: Cassandra.
 * Disabled Snarker: Roland.
 * Divine Race Lift: Discussed. There is an argument over whether or not Jesus is supposed to be white.
 * Expository Hairstyle Change: At the beginning of the film, Roland's hair is cleanly combed.
 * All of the Christian Jewels wear their hair flipped outward at the end, when Mary realizes she's pregnant and starts questioning Jesus her hair immediately goes flat.
 * Fallen Princess:
 * Foe Yay: First of all, Hilary Faye is pretty obsessed with Cassandra and getting her saved. Secondly, Cassandra seems oddly comfortable with telling Hilary Faye the details of her sex life while pretending to get saved.
 * Foreshadowing: The scene where Mary asks Lillian.
 * Averted with the scene of Hilary Faye at the gun range. In the original ending, Hilary Faye was to shoot up her prom . While this ending was changed, the scene at the gun range stayed in as an artifact of this.
 * Girl Next Door: There's something endearing about sweet and sincere redheaded girls.
 * Girl Posse: The Christian Jewels.
 * Good Girls Avoid Abortion: Lampshaded; see Dead Baby Comedy above.
 * Hannibal Lecture: Part of Hilary Faye's Villainous Breakdown.

Mary: Just cool it, Hil.

Hilary Faye: Oh, shut up, you fornicator! And I did not hack into the school's computer system and cover our walls with that blasphemous graffiti either!"

"Roland: I still don't think he's supposed to be white. I saw this thing on television-
 * Holier Than Thou: Hilary Faye is a combination of this and the Alpha Bitch.
 * Hot Mom:
 * Mary-Louise Parker as Lillian.
 * Hypocritical Humor: Hilary Faye while throwing a bible at Mary: "I am filled with Christ's love!"
 * Kawaiiko: Mary.
 * Last Het Romance: Mary for Dean.
 * Light Is Not Good: Hilary Faye
 * Male Gaze: Roland gets caught peeking at Cassandra's butt in a POV shot.
 * Meaningful Name: Mary, Mary, Mary, Mary. Also facepalmingly so with Roland.
 * Mary's is also a debatable case of Prophetic Names, since, just like her Biblical namesake, Mary.
 * Misplaced Names Poster: [[media:saved.jpg|Not only are the names misplaced, but it only lists four of the five actors shown.]]
 * Mission From God: Mary thinks she has been directed by Jesus personally to "cure" Dean.
 * Hilary Faye thinks the same thing about Cassandra, which the latter exploits.
 * Morning Sickness: Because of her distant mother and the dearth of sexual education at her school, Mary doesn't realize what it means.
 * Nakama: Mary, Roland, and Cassandra, and also the much larger "family" that Mary has acquired by the end (basically everyone in the hospital scene).
 * Parental Abandonment
 * Passion Play: The school play that year is Jesus Christ Superstar. For those familiar with the musical, that's a rather ironic choice for such a rigid school.
 * Preacher's Kid: Patrick.
 * Precision F-Strike: After discovering she's pregnant, Mary stands in front of a church and says "Shit. Fuck. Goddamn." To her, the last is probably the most devastating curse word.
 * The "shit" seems to have been dubbed in. As filmed, it looks like Mary is saying "fuck" twice. The first "fuck" was probably changed to "shit" to keep the movie PG-13.
 * Prom Baby
 * Race Lift: The statue of Jesus. Lampshaded.

Hilary Faye: Of course he's white!"


 * Sibling Yin-Yang: Hilary and Roland Faye. He's a Disabled Snarker and intellectual, who openly criticizes Christianity, his sister and his parents, but genuinely cares for Cassandra and Mary . She, on the other hand, is a Holier Than Thou Christian fundamentalist/Straw Hypocrite, who frequently plays Teacher's Pet (kissing up to Pastor Skip, trying to "save" Cassandra and calling for people to pray for Mary and Dean, organizing the prom, etc.)... and still.
 * Six-Student Clique
 * The Head -- Patrick
 * The Muscle -- Dean
 * The Quirk -- Roland
 * The Pretty One --, a male example.
 * The Smart One -- Mary
 * The Wild One -- Cassandra
 * Smite Me Oh Mighty Smiter: Mary at one point stands in front of a cross and utters progressively worse swears, as though attempting to provoke a reaction.
 * Speaking Simlish: Cassandra pretends to be possessed by the Holy Spirit in chapel, acting as though she is speaking in tongues. Hillary Faye interrupts her to point out that she's just repeating
 * Egocentrically Religious: Hilary.
 * Stealth Pun: "Is he going to come out or not?!"
 * Strawman U: Not a college, but American Eagle Christian High School is an example of a Jim Jonestown High School.
 * Teen Pregnancy
 * The Danza: Pastor Skip's son, Patrick, is played by Patrick Fugit.
 * Totally Radical: Pastor Skip.
 * Amusingly, the students all seem to buy it. Then again, they're not exactly a hip crowd themselves...
 * Transparent Closet: Referenced, with regards to Dean. While Mary and the Christian Jewels are shocked and disgusted by the idea that Dean is gay, Roland asserts, "What? It wasn't like it was some big secret. He was like a one-man gay pride parade."
 * Verbed Title