Easy A (stylized as easy A) is a 2010 American teen romantic comedy film directed by Will Gluck, written by Bert V. Royal, starring Emma Stone, Stanley Tucci, and others The screenplay was partially inspired by the 1850 novel The Scarlet Letter by Nathaniel Hawthorne. Olive Prendergast is an average student until rumours fly that she has had sex. Teen comedy about peer pressure. Olive has an adopted brother which is very normalised. In one scene, it gets mentioned by the brother and the father has this whole silly speech asking who told him and how they were going to keep it a secret. Quite clearly a family joke.