The Truth About Jane

Starring:Stockard Channing, Ellen Muth, Kelly Rowan, Jenny O'Hara, RuPaul, Noah Fleiss, James Naughton, Alicia Lagano, Kacy Clark, Mark Siegel (II), Erika Moore, Tiffany Westlie, Kenny McKeon, Michelle Lane, Amy Davidson, Melissa Wolfklain, John T. Huggins Jr., Makyle Kaplan-Dailey, Lillie Richardson, Robert Harvey
Director: Lee Rose
Studio: Starlight Home Entertainment
Product Type: DVD

Average customer rating:

Great coming out story!!!
Helpful, Poignant, and a Bit Idealistic
The Truth About Jane
Teacher of the Year
not a good movie... but i liked it anyway

The Truth About Jane
Starring: Stockard Channing , Ellen Muth , Kelly Rowan , Jenny O'Hara , and RuPaul
Director: Lee Rose
Manufacturer: Starlight Home Entertainment
ProductGroup: DVD
Binding: DVD

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ASIN: B000062Y1E
Release Date: 2002-04-09

Customer Reviews:

Great coming out story!!!.......2007-01-10

This movie is truly a must see!! All the actors/actresses were superb and believable, performing a very heartfelt story of coming out, and showing the various viewpoints and feelings of all those involved (with a happy ending).

Helpful, Poignant, and a Bit Idealistic.......2006-12-04

I didn't see this movie until recently, mainly because of the subject matter and my parents. You see, I "came out" to my parents this summer, but they don't believe me and feel that it is a phase, or that I am just doing this out of rebellion. "Jane" made me feel somewhat better, because I realized that many young lesbians go through this. I almost wish I had been honest with myself earlier, and not gone on dates with boys to make my mom proud of me. This movie's made me realize that one day I will have to just tell her strongly, and she can go from there. But I don't think my mom will even be as open as Stockard Channing's character is in the movie, because of her, and my, religious convictions, which she considers contradictory. Anyway, that's all for my rant.

Bottom line: This movie is great, and for all it's corniness, it's sometimes what is needed by a person. And I love the line at the end "Dad, just because I'm a lesbian, it doesn't mean I have a sudden interest in sports", because it makes the statement that you are the same person you always were, but now can be yourself in EVERY aspect of life.

The Truth About Jane.......2006-11-15

I saw this movie on Lifetime network on TV. It tells the story about a girl who tells her own story about herself. Then she talks about her year in high school. I know that high school can be awesome and stressful sometimes. But when Jane discovers her secert... she reveals that she's gay. She falls in love with another girl. But then she finds out that the girl said that she didn't love her. Jane was heart broken when they broke up. No one would understand about Jane. She goes to her teacher's house and she tells her that she wants to kill herself. But she doesn't after all.

This movie has a message. There are people who love differently. But I don't think I would have sex with another girl. That's very sick! But I think that this movie is a very great story. This movie is for all teenagers. I really love this movie.

Teacher of the Year.......2006-09-13

After watching DEAD LIKE ME for two seasons we knew Ellen Muth's cracked honeycomb of a voice, and flicking through the channels we wondered if this was some "lost episode" of DEAD LIKE ME but instead, we saw Stockard Channing as her mother instead of that cold hearted Cynthia Stevenson, so we settled in for the duration to see how DEAD LIKE ME would have played out if Georgia had been a lesbian, and if her mother had been Rizzo from GREASE. There's one point in THE TRUTH ABOUT JANE when you will swear Stockard Channing feels compelled to belt out "There Are Worse Things I Can Do," especially when her daughter asks her if she graduated from high school without having sex.

Another star of note is the exquisite Kelly Rowan, who later went on to play Kirsten Cohen on The O.C. Here she looks even more fabulous if that's possible as the dedicated high school English teacher. She acts so totally real you could swear she was a real teacher, except for one thing, she is too chic. In her little black cocktail dress and a perfect white shell cardigan, and little black heels, she is the teacher of a young girl's dreams. In the story of the movie, Jane is having a terrible time of it trying to come to terms with a new found desure to be with Taylor, the new girl in town, 24 hours a day. Taylor's mom is a complete psycho and beats her up all the time. However for sheer human awfulness, there's no one quite like poor Jane's younger brother Brad.

First he spies on Taylor and Jane while they are kissing. Then he tells everyone at school so that Jane becomes the victim of virulent homophobia and her parents wind up getting anonymous phone calls informing them that their daughter is having an affair with a female classmate! Stockard Channing doesn't know who to believe. Though she's a cool mom in many ways, she's also rigid as a fencepost when it comes to Jane and her sexuality. She's certain Jane is straight and can't see it any other way.

Luckily the divine Kelly Rowan is in Jane's corner. I'm not surprised that this movie led to bigger and better parts for La Rowan, it is the dictionary definition of a breakout part.

And now, can anyone tell me what happened to our wonderful Ellen Muth? She seems to have fallen right off the face of the earth ever since wrapping up DEAD LIKE ME.

She was looking pretty haggard during the last episodes of the series, and hopefully she's getting a bit of a "rest."

not a good movie... but i liked it anyway.......2006-03-02

pretty cheesy, with a mediocre script, variable acting (stockard channing & rupaul are ok though), and that afterschool special feeling. however, it hits all the important coming-out issues in a nice way. i like cheesy melodramas, and i have a soft spot in my heart for coming-out stories--or any gay stories, really--so i enjoyed it. but great art it is not.

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