Everytime I see a film with Heath Ledger in it, it makes me sad. He transformed himself in every role.
The story has been told before in documentary form, but this was a bit more dramatic a take as no one needed to rely on old 8mm footage, television interviews or faded memories. They could just make it what they wanted. Great cast of young actors, many who have been seen in plenty since.
And bravo to the make up artist for Rebecca DeMornay. It takes some real talent to make her look that bad.
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The film follows the surf and skateboarding trends that originated in Venice, California during the 1970′s.
How did we miss this film when it first came out? How did it take us 6 years to find it?
Amusing with great cameos from The Hoff to Gene Simmons to Henry Rollins and more. Silly story about a guy that is humiliated throughout high school and finally ends up a new school where he reinvents himself. Everyone should have this opportunity in life. I went to a small high school (127 in graduating class) and was so excited to go away to a big university where no one knew me and no one knew everything about my life. I was pretty much just there in high school, so I can barely imagine how awful it must be to be stamped as someone that is little more than a punching bag when they are noticed.
This film took all the bad things that happened to him and made them positives. Of course he wins in the end. That is how it should be. We should all have a chance to see the popular guy that tortured everyone in high school working at a car wash and fat.
The scene of the arrival to the new school is not to be missed. From the entrance in the “truck” to the pulling of the fire alarm – fun, funny, silly, amusing.
I had a great time with this film. If I came across it some ugly Saturday afternoon, I would watch it again.
And DJ Qualls is much cuter than the movies give him credit for. Ileana Douglass took quirky to a whole new level.
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A high school senior branded uncool in the ninth grade gets himself expelled so he changes his image to cool kid at the town’s other high school.
