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* DawsonCasting: 20-something Carey Mulligan as 16-year-old Jenny.
* DeletedScenes: Found [[https://youtu.be/67TPUkcJJnQ here]].
* FakeBrit: American actor Creator/PeterSarsgaard plays David.
* PlayingAgainstType:
** Emma Thompson appears as a ruthless and anti-Semitic schoolmistress.
** Rosamund Pike as DumbBlonde Helen is a particularly odd example, not just because Pike normally plays intelligent [[IceQueen ice queens]], but because in real life Rosamund Pike basically ''is'' who Jenny wants to be (trained cellist, bilingual in French, and studied English Literature at Oxford).
* StarMakingRole: The critical acclaim Creator/CareyMulligan received from this film took her from "playing supporting or one-off roles in film and TV" to "serious film lead in her own right".

* VeryLooselyBasedOnATrueStory: Based on the memoir of the same name by British journalist Lynn Barber.

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