A comedy starring Kyle Gallner (NIGHTMARE ON ELM STREET 2010, "VERONICA MARS," HAUNTING IN CONNECTICUT, JENNIFER'S BODY) with Jim Belushi, Denise Richards, Rebecca Mader ("LOST"), Kathryn Morris ("Cold Case") and Sarah Hyland ("Modern Family").
The story: a kid about to get kicked out of boarding school due to lack of funds has a one night stand with an older woman and ends up starting a business where he pimps out his high school friends (who can't get laid) to older women to raise money for his tuition. During this he also starts dating a girl his own age and forms a friendship with the pricipal to his school, until everything starts to unravel...
So was it good? No. It's a mess. The problem is that the script is just all over the place. There's the one storyline with the boys and the married women that wants to be a teen sex romp, ala RISKY BUSINESS or AMERICAN PIE. Then there's the other side which plays like a quirky indy movie with the girl-who-is-into-art and the principal who smokes joints and talks "real" and has sections divided into chapters (posed as questions) to make it feel deep or something, ala 500 DAYS OF SUMMER or a 2010 version of THE GRADUATE (although the girl he is into in this movie isn't the daughter of the older woman he screws). And the story flips back and forth between the two styles again and again and again. Yikes. Eventually the movie chooses to go the indy movie route, which is a mistake because nothing about it's indy side really works. It just doesn't seem to have anything to say. There's no focus to it at all. At least the teen sex comedy side had a fun idea -- older woman who are unhappy sexually hooking up with teen guys desperate to get laid.
There is some clever dialog by the supporting characters (the leads spends most of the time doing a Robert Patterson impression with lots of brooding and unkept hair), but with no focus and a very not entertaining second half, this is a pass.
*** AVOID ***
Recommend instead: if you want an indy comedy try 500 DAYS OF SUMMER. If you want a fun teen comedy rewatch RISKY BUSINESS or AMERICAN PIE.
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