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16-year-old Nick Twisp (Michael Cera) is an outcast of his generation; his interests include Frank Sinatra and the films of Federico Fellini. Nick lives with his irritable mom, Estelle (Jean Smart) and her oafish boyfriend, Jerry (Zach Galifinakis), in Oakland, California. When Jerry owes money to a group of angry sailors, he takes Estelle and Nick on vacation to a trailer park in Clearlake. There Nick meets Sheeni Saunders (Portia Doubleday), an intellectual and beautiful girl who happens to be just as neurotic as he is. She, in turn, takes a liking to Nick and, despite the fact that Sheeni already has a boyfriend named Trent Preston (Jonathan Bradford Wright), they form a romance. Nick purchases a dog for Sheeni named Albert (pronounced al-bear), whom he refers to as "love child". However, the dog rips up the family Bible. Sheeni's parents decide that the pet is no longer allowed in her house. Unfortunately, when Jerry needs to return to Oakland for his painkillers, Nick is forced to join them, but he and Sheeni do not wish to break up. To resolve this, Sheeni promises to arrange a job in Ukiah for Nick's temperamental father, George (Steve Buscemi), and he will try and get his mother, who needs the child support money, to send him to live with him, so that he and Sheeni can be together. In order to do this, he will need to be, as Sheeni puts it, "very, very bad."
Back at home, Nick coaxes his best friend, Lefty (Erik Knudsen), to keep Albert for him since Nick hates dogs. Due to Sheeni's request to be bad, Nick creates an alter-ego to help him with his misdeeds, a French boy by the name of François Dillinger (Sheeni dreams of her French husband to be named François), who has a deeper voice, a mustache, blue eyes, and a bad boy attitude. Around this time, Jerry dies and his death reveals that he was, in fact, already married to someone else. Estelle is appalled to also find out that Jerry's prized Lincoln now belongs to Jerry's wife.
With François' help, Nick begins to mouth off to his mom and her new boyfriend, police officer Lance Wescott (Ray Liotta). Nick soon causes the most trouble when, as François, he takes Jerry's Lincoln and trailer to Berkeley and crashes into a local restaurant, causing a huge fire.
Nick returns home to find his mother and Lance aware that he caused the accident. Lance agrees to say that Nick had reported the car missing before the accident happened, with the guarantee that Nick be moved to Ukiah to live his father. Estelle agrees and allows Lance to give Nick, as François, a severe whipping.
In Ukiah, Nick phones Sheeni and explains that in order to get there he had to blow up "half of Berkeley". However, Sheeni's parents (M. Emmet Walsh and Mary Kay Place) overhear and immediately ship their daughter off to a Santa Cruz French boarding school 200 miles away. In his new high school, Nick befriends Vijay Joshi (Adhir Kalyan), an intelligent student fluent in French and an acquaintance of Sheeni's. With Vijay's help, Nick travels to Santa Cruz in Vijay's grandmother's car to visit Sheeni at her boarding school. Vijay is eager to meet Sheeni's promiscuous roommate, Taggarty (Rooney Mara).
After being allowed into Sheeni`s room, Nick, frustrated by his inability to make a move on Sheeni, goes to the restroom where he meets Bernice Lynch (Jade Fusco), Sheeni`s neighbor, who has been vomiting. Nick smears Trent through Bernice, claiming Trent had said terrible things about her. With François' unconventional help, Nick finally gets a chance to have sex with Sheeni. But Bernice brings the matron (Lise Lacasse) to the room where Nick, Sheeni, Vijay, and Taggaarty are making out. This causes Nick and Vijay to run away, leaving their clothes behind.
On the way home, Vijay's car dies, leading Nick to recruit the help of his liberal neighbor, Mr. Ferguson (Fred Willard), to come pick them up, saying that Vijay is an illegal immigrant whom Nick is trying to "free for persecution" in a made-up safehouse in Ukiah.
When he returns home, he meets Sheeni's hallucinogen-dealing older brother, Paul (Justin Long) who explains that she will be returning home on Thanksgiving and invites Nick for dinner that night. Later, Nick begins to send Bernice love letters, in which he says that Sheeni was just a childhood fling and that he and Bernice were meant to be. He asks her to "retaliate against Trent" by slipping sedatives into Sheeni's drinks to make her fall asleep in class, thus causing Sheeni to be expelled from the boarding school. At some point, Nick comes home to find Lacey (Ari Graynor), George's 25-year-old live-in girlfriend, Paul, and Mr. Ferguson, lounging in the living room, high on mushrooms, which Nick also ingests. Upon George's arrival, Mr. Ferguson is punched in the face by Nick's father who is, in turn, punched by Paul. Through this series of events, Lacey leaves the house to live with Paul.
On Thanksgiving, Nick receives a call from his mother informing him that Lance has left her, and, in turn, is no longer covering for Nick. Regardless, Nick decides to visit Sheeni, who has recently been expelled. He finds that Paul has drugged his parents. Trent unexpectedly arrives having discovered the truth, thus ruining Nick's plan, and Sheeni is horrified by his use of sleeping pills to get her expelled ("You could have killed me!"). He begs his father to let him take his father's car to no avail. He then steals the car.
Desperate to not have the police after him, Nick removes his clothes and drive his father's car into a very shallow lake in front of police whom François had told to be there. Nick had thought the lake would be much less shallow, thus leading the police to believe that he was, in fact, in the car. He then goes to a nearby store where he buys a wig and a dress to dress up as "Carlotta", one of Sheeni's friends. He fools Mr. and Mrs. Saunders and goes up to Sheeni's room to tell her that he loves her. They make love. Post-intercourse, Trent barges in, telling Nick that he's brought the police with him. Nick ask Sheeni to wait for him, but Sheeni notes "You're 16, you're going to juvenile detention, and you'll be out in 3 months".
During the end credits, we see an animated epilogue that depicts Nick and François' time spent in juvenile detention. When Nick is released, Sheeni and him ride off in a car, passing George, Mr. Ferguson, Lefty, Vijay, and Taggarty. They also pass Paul and Lacey selling mushrooms on the side of the road; and Estelle who is having Trent mow her lawn. Sheeni pushes a button inside the car which sends them flying away into the sky.
Tuesday, November 2, 2010
Youth in Revolt (2010)
2:16 AM
John Matt
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