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THE DEB MOVIE REVIEW
Every girl dreams of her big debut, with the perfect dress, the perfect date, and the perfect night to remember. Unless you’re a teenage feminist who thinks the whole thing is a patriarchal nightmare. Then it’s time to burn down the ballroom. Rebel Wilson makes her feature directorial debut with The Deb, an Australian musical comedy following Taylah (Natalie Abbott). She’s an awkward farm girl desperate to make her mark at the local debutante ball. Her outspoken city cousin Maeve (Charlotte MacInnes), has been exiled to the countryside after getting spectacularly cancelled. One wants to be the belle of the ball. The other wants to dismantle the entire institution. There’s singing, dancing, teenage drama, and enough culture clash to make a pig farm look sophisticated. Adapted from the Australian stage musical, the film premiered in 2024 before legal battles kept it waiting in the wings for two years, but now it’s here. Shira, Frank, and T.C. put on their fanciest pants and head down to the One Of Us pig farm to determine whether The Deb is the belle of the cinematic ball or a musical wallflower better left standing alone when the last song plays.
DIRECTED BY: Rebel Wilson
STARRING: Natalie Abbott, Charlotte MacInnes, Tara Morice, Steph Tisdell, Costa D’Angelo, Hal Cumpston, Shane Jacobson, Rebel Wilson, Brianna Bishop, Karis Oka, Stevie Jean, Susan Prior, Julian McMahon
YOUR REVIEWERS
T.C. De Witt (Screener Squad)
T.C. De Witt is a multi-awarded writer/director originally from Wisconsin and now based in Los Angeles. His life has been devoted to the arts since he was a child. He’s been a stage performer, playwright, stand-up comic, film and television actor, radio DJ, podcaster published author, recorded musician, and comic writer/illustrator. He is now a professional screenwriter and has been thriving for the past decade, regularly offering his talents to production studios in LA, Chicago, Milwaukee, and internationally in Sydney and Poland. He’s provided content for Amazon Prime, Netflix, and several YouTube partners. His films have screened internationally, and his stageplays have been performed across the country. In the last ten years, he has directed 57 films, 23 episodes of his series The One Minute Rewatch, 300+ episodes of podcasts, and his multi-award-winning short film Screen: Righter screened at the Festival de Cannes in 2016. He has released two feature films, The Princess Knight and A Christmas Sunset. He thrives on collaboration and the thrill of sharing stories in all forms.
Frank Calvillo (Highly Suspect Reviews, Screener Squad, What Ever Happened to Bette & Joan?, Hollywood Royalty)
Born and raised in South Texas, Frank currently lives in Austin and has been in love with movies ever since his father showed him some Three Stooges shorts when he was five years old. Today he loves all kinds of film, regardless of era, country, budget or genre. He believes every film has an audience and is at least one person’s favorite movie. After writing for Sight & Sound and Slackerwood, he now writes for Cinapse where his increasingly random taste in all flavors of cinema (from Rashomon to Mars Attacks!) continues to thrive. His ultimate goal is to write a script for his boyhood crush, Michelle Pfeiffer.
Shira More (Necromancer, Highly Suspect Reviews, Screener Squad)
Shira grew up in Dallas, TX, and need only put her palm to the ground to sense the direction of a semi-annual sale. She knows a little about a lot of things: Mary Shelley, Survivor (yes it’s still on), Otome Isekai’s, Slavoj Zizek. Is she method acting a supporting character in a Hallmark Christmas movie or is she just extremely undiagnosed? We’ll never know. When Shira’s not campaigning for French Kiss (1995) to finally be on streaming, you’ll find her debating the charming and unsettling similarities between rom coms and horror movies with Bret Dorman on the Necromancer podcast.
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