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R Released Apr 6, 2012 1h 44m Comedy Drama List
28% Tomatometer 18 Reviews 67% Popcornmeter 2,500+ Ratings
A smart but underachieving teen (Mandela Van Peebles) sets his sights on a brainy classmate (Simone Battle) who is driven to succeed.
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Scott Bowles USA Today Every time it dabbles in real-world teen issues like sex and drugs, it returns to a fanciful high school where kids quote Nietzsche and play acoustic guitar on lunch breaks. Rated: 2/4 Apr 6, 2012 Full Review Elizabeth Weitzman New York Daily News Mario Van Peebles' self-produced project comes frustratingly close to his high-minded aims. Rated: 2/5 Apr 6, 2012 Full Review Frank Scheck Hollywood Reporter Heavy-handed teen drama mixes moralizing and partying to uneven effect. Apr 6, 2012 Full Review Witney Seibold CraveOnline I have to admit there is something kind of disarming about its corny earnestness. Van Peebles clearly invested himself in the material, and damn it all if he wasn't going to wring that screenplay for all it was worth. Rated: 6.5/10 Aug 22, 2012 Full Review Cole Smithey ColeSmithey.com [VIDEO] There are a few moments during writer/director Mario Van Peebles's overly didactic high school drama when you can almost glimpse the good film buried beneath all the artifice. Rated: c- Apr 8, 2012 Full Review David Noh Film Journal International Initially promising teen comedy-drama, featuring African-American kids not in the ghetto for once, soon undermines itself in a welter of clichs and empty gloss. Apr 6, 2012 Full Review Read all reviews

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Audience Member omg what a movie love love 1000000000000000000times love i can watch it a 111111111222222333333333444444455556666677778889990001019282820$7739373320 Rated 5 out of 5 stars 01/24/23 Full Review Audience Member who was this movie made for??? anyone beyond the tween and teen group will drop out of their chair trying to watch this movie. i think i hit the floor three or four times (just kidding). there are endless scenes of monotonous 'teen' interaction and needless stagnant obsessive viewing of 'young flesh' in various stages of dress. if you are willing to punish yourself watching these sophomoric scenes of behavior you will get to the message this film so wants to tell. unfortunately this takes almost two hours! it might have been more powerful if the director & editor has whittled the footage down to at least one hour. but as it is i found myself getting very agitated watching these teens act out a life that obviously had no meaning to them outside of the script. Rated 2 out of 5 stars 02/17/23 Full Review Audience Member It's not the worst movie. The cast was too much i couldn't keep track. It is like every other high school movie out there nothing new here. The movie does grow on you after a while though. Rated 2.5 out of 5 stars 02/05/23 Full Review Audience Member The problem with this movie is that it didn't know what it wanted to be. At various points it felt like "American Pie" (1999), while at others it felt like "Dangerous Minds" (1995), and yet at times the dialogue felt like I was watching "High School Musical" (2006). Or was this supposed to be a music movie? If so, it didn't work too well. It had a really long rap battle scene, where you couldn't even understand what they were saying. If you want a movie like that, watch "8 Mile" (2002). I really didn't like most of the music in this movie--really it's not my preferred genre, so it's hard for me to judge if it was good or bad. I did like "Truth" by YG--mixing in Canon in D makes everything sound good. I think the movie would've been better if it stuck to a particular style. If they were aiming for cheesy teen movie, than they should've done that. If they were aiming for urban hardship and coming of age, they should've stuck with that. All mixed together, it ended up being mush. The movie deals with a socioeconomically diverse high school, and the teen problems within it. But again, it tried to deal with too much. It felt like there was no centralized plot, it dragged on, and there was often a feeling of "where are we going with this?" I think they should consider making this movie into a television series, that way they can deal with all the different characters and all the different situations one episode at a time. Rated 2.5 out of 5 stars 02/01/23 Full Review Audience Member its a movie u can watch with your teens and they can relate Rated 5 out of 5 stars 02/14/23 Full Review Audience Member or you can call it "Van Peebles Next generation" unwise I enjoyed this movie - not the humor of American Pie but a certain innocent and realistic to it. Rated 3.5 out of 5 stars 02/18/23 Full Review Read all reviews
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Movie Info

Synopsis A smart but underachieving teen (Mandela Van Peebles) sets his sights on a brainy classmate (Simone Battle) who is driven to succeed.
Director
Mario Van Peebles
Producer
Mario Van Peebles, Michael Cohen, Dwjuan F. Fox, Tal Vidgerson
Screenwriter
Mario Van Peebles
Distributor
ARC Entertainment
Production Co
Eagle Films
Rating
R (Sexual Content|All Involving Teens|Language|Brief Drug Use)
Genre
Comedy, Drama
Original Language
English
Release Date (Theaters)
Apr 6, 2012, Limited
Release Date (Streaming)
Nov 18, 2016
Runtime
1h 44m
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