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Remember the Daze
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MPAA RATING: R for pervasive drug and alcohol use, strong language and some sexual content - all involving teens

Starring Amber Heard, Alexa Vega, Leighton Meester, Melonie Diaz, and Douglas Smith

On the last day of classes in the teenage wasteland of suburbia in 1999, a diverse group of students copes with its undetermined fate over a 24-hour period. Some are comfortably college bound, while others continue to romanticize their own nonsensical pipe dreams. All the while, they find safety in numbers as they enjoy their last night of adolescence. (Freestyle Releasing)

GENRE(S):	Comedy \| Drama
WRITTEN BY:	Jess Manafort
DIRECTED BY:	Jess Manafort
RELEASE DATE:	DVD: June 3, 2008 Theatrical: April 11, 2008
RUNNING TIME:	101 minutes, Color
ORIGIN:	USA

Original title "The Beautiful Ordinary."

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Variety Peter Debruge

As high school zeitgeist stories go, Remember the Daze holds no great secrets or revelations, no iconic characters or “American Pie”-style set pieces, but it demonstrates considerable promise on the part of its director and her up-and-coming cast.

The New York Times Laura Kern

A generally entertaining but half-baked variation on Richard Linklater’s high school period piece, “Dazed and Confused” (made in 1993, set in 1976), Remember the Daze (set in 1999) takes its cue from the earlier film in an excess of ways.

LA Weekly Ella Taylor

Remember the Daze has the irony-free, instant-nostalgia earnestness of your high school yearbook, but watching it is not likely to conjure your own youthful emotions -- it’s more like flipping through the generic memories of a complete stranger.

New York Daily News Elizabeth Weitzman

The original title of Jess Manafort's directorial debut was "The Beautiful Ordinary," and she shouldn't have changed it. After all, her cast is beautiful and her movie is ordinary.

New York Post Kyle Smith

We keep waiting for a story, or at least some comedy, but none ever materializes. The dialogue makes Algebra II seem fascinating by comparison.

Los Angeles Times Bob Baker

If you swiped the most insipid dialogue of the teenage-angst movies of John Hughes and Kevin Smith and Amy Heckerling, you would still have a script -- and a movie -- far superior to the newest of the genre, Remember the Daze.

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