Inoffensive teen film, with a similar plot to Can’t Hardly Wait only set in 1988 and with the characters a few years older - kind of a The Graduate vibe. Topher Grace works at a video store and has a long crush on Teresa Palmer - and why not, since she's stunning here (looking great in that 80s hair). She's a lot more attractively shot than Anna Faris, who is normally attractive but not here (it's her hair colour or cheeks or something) - she's wasted too in far too small a role. At least she doesn't hook up with Dan Fogler, which is what I was worried about.
Topher Grace isn't a real slacker - he's a graduate of MIT (hence The Graduate reference), Teresa Palmer's acting is exposed in a few places (she's good with dialogue, but still hasn't grasped the acting of conveying what she's thinking with her face), I can't recall a teen film which was so pro-cocaine (Fogler has some blow and has a terrific night under the influence, scoring with hot chicks, winning a breakdancing contest), Michael Biehn seems too young to play Topher Grace's dad (I'm guessing he probably isn't, it just seems that way), pleasing tunes, shonky period detail (were they breakdancing in the late 80s?), a lot of predictability, but it has a lot of charm and I enjoyed it.
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