From member Brandon Fibbs:
Part Rushmore, part Porky’s, the coming-of-age comedy Youth in Revolt, based on a series of novels by C.D. Payne, is equal parts adolescent rebellion and first blush of love, but none of it manages to come together into anything that works. Worse, the film feels like a bad case of déjà vu; we can never shake the feeling that we’ve seen it all before.
Michael Cera plays Nick Twisp, a peculiar but affable teen with a taste for high culture, Fellini movies and the music of Frank Sinatra. He lives with his trashy, divorced mother Estelle (Jean Smart) who has shacked up with Jerry (Zach Galifianakis), a good-for-nothing loafer whose only talent seems to be running scams.
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