- Studio: Paramount Vantage
- Release Date: Aug 21, 2009
- Summary: A high school superstar can't get past his glory days even though his life 8 years after graduation is anything but perfect.
- Director: Todd Louiso
- Genre(s): Comedy
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Positive: 1 out of 7
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Negative: 6 out of 7
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63This is a slight and unessential picture, but its quirky, compassionate tone seems destined to attract a cult following, and members of high-school drama clubs everywhere will be riveted.
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38Faced with the script's weak humor and feeble stabs at irony, Schwartzman and Stiller turn it way up, setting the dial at "hammy."
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38Not so much character-driven as character-dragged--against its will.
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33In a squandered lead performance, the adorable, winning Schwartzman plays the non-adorable, non-winning title character.
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