- Dawson Casting: 20-something Carey Mulligan as 16-year-old Jenny.
- Deleted Scenes: Found here
. - Fake Brit: American actor Peter Sarsgaard plays David.
- Playing Against Type:
- Emma Thompson appears as a ruthless and anti-Semitic schoolmistress.
- Rosamund Pike as Dumb Blonde Helen is a particularly odd example, not just because Pike normally plays intelligent 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).
- Star-Making Role: The critical acclaim Carey Mulligan 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".
- Very Loosely Based on a True Story: Based on the memoir of the same name by British journalist Lynn Barber.
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