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How does this type of drivel get made? Who sits down and decides to create something so cliché? Every single character was a cliché. Who enjoys this kind of predictability? Couldn't the writer have come up with even one original character? Maybe this is the world of talentless cookie cutter people that surrounds him. None of the relationships in the film would ever exist because people just don't behave this way to each other. Someone explain why he would listen to his brother when he acted like that? When coach said wax on wax off was the most enjoyable moment because I had been saying it to myself the entire film and I found something to laugh about. If you want to see a much better version of this film watch the Jerico Mile with the amazing Peter Strauss.

Just because a film has a cute ending does not make it a good film. The writing acting and especially the directing were not just bad they were terrible..I didn't find any reason to think that the two leads would be a good couple...the dialog was boring and not even slightly reflective of the era it was uselessly based in...there was not one funny moment in it...it was not a comedy or a drama...it had no great family moments...the whole retarded brother sub plot was totally useless and difficult to watch (his acting was brutal)...but not as bad as Mr. Loski...the grandfather who neglected his grandson and swooned over the neighbours daughter was disturbing...Bryce's best friend would never have been Bryce's best friend...Juli's inability to forgive was out of character...the saxophone subplot disappeared and I'm as bored of this review as I was of the film. 4 was generous now I reflect.

I watched Election the night before and to think this film is rated higher than a masterpiece of true comedy like that has made me loose respect for this website and it's members.

I speak English and only English. I saw this flick tonight in Odessa Ukraine. In Ukrainian. I had someone translating in my ear...very bizarre way to watch something. It was hard to tell at first just how bad this movie was because of the surreal experience I was having then I started to realize that I really didn't need translation because the only thing that was in the dialogue was people that I cared nothing about talking about what they were going to do. I think I really only needed about 10% of the translation that I actually got to get the same effect. At one point I asked my friend to stop word for word translation unless there was something new and interesting being added to the plot and she hardly said anything else for the second half of the film. I don't watch many flicks anymore because I never really see a trailer that I like. It's almost all remakes now...so sad. But I really think I would have rather seen a remake of some bad flick I've seen, than to watch this original and I live for creativity and originality. Are writers like this really getting work. You can see that I'm no writer but I really think I could do much better. Was there any plot at all? The fact that this exists makes me want to protest something but I'm not sure what.