All I Wanna Do (1998 film)

All I Wanna Do
Theatrical release poster
Directed by	Sarah Kernochan
Written by	Sarah Kernochan
Produced by	Ira Deutchman Peter Newman
Starring	Kirsten Dunst Gaby Hoffmann Lynn Redgrave Rachael Leigh Cook Thomas Guiry Vincent Kartheiser Monica Keena Matthew Lawrence Heather Matarazzo Merritt Wever
Cinematography	Anthony Janelli
Music by	Graeme Revell
Production company	Redeemable Features
Distributed by	Alliance Communications (Canada) Miramax Films (United States)
Release dates	August 21, 1998 (1998-08-21) (Canada) September 4, 1998 (1998-09-04) (United States)
Running time	97 minutes
Countries	Canada United States
Language	English
Budget	$5 million[1]
Box office	$907,996[2]

All I Wanna Do (originally titled The Hairy Bird) is a 1998 American comedy film written and directed by Sarah Kernochan. It stars Kirsten Dunst, Gaby Hoffmann, Monica Keena, Heather Matarazzo and Rachael Leigh Cook in an ensemble cast as students of the fictional Miss Godard's Preparatory School for Girls, and Lynn Redgrave as the school's headmistress. The film takes place in 1963 and focuses on several students' plotting and sabotage of a proposed merger for the school to go coed.

Originally titled The Hairy Bird, the film's screenplay, set in 1963, is based loosely on Kernochan's experiences at Rosemary Hall around that time. Filming was done in Toronto, Ontario, Canada at the Trafalgar Castle School in Whitby. The song "The Hairy Bird" plays during the film's end credits; it was written by Kernochan and sung by a group which includes Kernochan and five of her Rosemary Hall classmates, including Glenn Close.^[3]

The film was given a limited release on September 4, 1998, in the United States under the title All I Wanna Do (as its American distributor Miramax Films found the original title too offensive), and was then acquired by Buena Vista Home Entertainment who released it straight-to-video. In Canada and the United Kingdom (as well as for later streaming distribution in the U.S.), it was released under the title Strike!.