| Allison Reynolds | |
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Gender: |
Female |
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Height: |
5'5" |
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Occupation(s): |
Student at Shermer High School |
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Alias(es): |
The Basket Case |
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Family: |
Mr. Reynolds (Father) |
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Friends: |
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Reason for detention: |
Nothing - she didn't have anything better to do. |
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Who Allison blames for being in detention: |
Her Parents |
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Significant Other: |
Andrew Clark (boyfriend) |
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Portrayed by: |
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Allison Reynolds is a shy and lonely girl at Shermer High School. Her parents ignore her, which drives her to consider running away from home, along with lying and stealing to survive.
The Basket Case[]
During detention, Allison shows disgusting personal habits, causing everyone to stare at her in shock - especially during lunchtime, when she puts together a sandwich with sugar candy sticks and Cap'n Crunch Cereal. She doesn't really start talking until after lunch, and at one point, she even dumps her bag full of junk on the couch.
Physical appearance[]
Despite some insecurities, Allison is a beautiful teenage girl with a slim figure and average height. Her hair is dark brown with an occasionally black hue sometimes, and it tends to cover her face and appears to be shoulder length and wavy. Her skin is pale with very light freckles, and her face is often sorrowful and has dark brown eyes with black eyeliner, a button nose and small pink lips. After a beauty makeover from Claire, Andrew is shocked, but happy, and they even started dating after detention.
Quotes[]
“When you grow up, your heart dies.”
“Well, if you say you haven't, you're a prude. If you say you have you're a slut. It's a trap. You want to but you can't and when you do you wish you didn't, right?”
“I don't have to run away and live in the street. I can run away and I can go to the ocean, I can go to the country, I can go to the mountains. I could go to Israel, Africa, Afghanistan...”
“You wanna know what I did to get in here... nothing! I had nothing better to do.”
"I'll do anything sexual and I don't a need million dollars to do it."
"Never mind, forget it, everything's cool"
"There's no deal, sport-o"
Allusions[]
- Allison is the only student to not drop the f-bomb ("f--k") a single time in the movie. Namely, out of the 26 f-bombs in the film, 0 came from Allison's mouth.
- For lunch, Allison eats a Cap'n Crunch sandwich prepared from powdered fruit-flavored candy. From a distance, the sandwich looks like sugar on either butter or mayonnaise with popcorn.
- Allison is the only student who did not smoke Bender's drugs, and watched every else get high instead.
- Allison doesn't speak for the first twenty-four or so minutes.
- She can tell good lies just like she did when she got Claire to admit she was a virgin.
- Ally Sheedy was 22 years of age when she played the character.
- She can write and play the piano with her toes.
- A close comparison to Allison could be Pacey Witter from Dawson's Creek
- Both have suffered some form of emotional abuse from their families (Pacey is often verbally belittled and called names like "stupid" and "imbecile" by his father and older brother. Allison is neglected by her family to the point where she considers running away several times)
- Both have a theoretical way of "running away" instead of confronting their problems (Pacey often plays the part of a "stupid loser" because that's all he ever hears from his family, so he intentionally doesn't try in school and acts obnoxiously to get the attention he seeks from his parents and brother. Allison intentionally dresses in dark clothes and acts bizarrely to try to shove everyone away from her but only succeeds in drawing more attention to herself)
Trivia[]
Pictures[]
Deleted scene of Allison giving Mr. Vernon the middle finger.