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The New Guy is a american film of genre Comedy directed by Edward Decter released in USA on 10 may 2002 with DJ Qualls
The New Guy (2002)
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Add to a movie listReleased in USA 10 may 2002
Length 1h28
Directed by Edward Decter
OriginUSA
Genres Comedy
Themes L'adolescence, Films about education, Films about children, Prison films, L'enfance marginalisée, Films about school violence
Rating58%
The New Guy is a 2002 American teen comedy film directed by Ed Decter. The film tells the story of high school loser Dizzy Gillespie Harrison. Dizzy is an unpopular, high school band geek going through a hellish senior year.
In an attempt to make a new identity for himself, Dizzy gets himself expelled from his high school, learns how to be cool from a prison inmate, and enrolls at a new high school under the alias Gil Harris. He is quick to make new friends and soon gains respect from jocks and geeks alike, uniting a once divided school and greatly improving its football team. Eventually, Gil has to face his demons from his old school when they face each other in a football game.
The film received generally negative reviews, but was a modest box office success.
Synopsis
The film begins with prison inmate Luther speaking directly to the camera to an unseen individual, telling the story of Dizzy Gillespie Harrison, an 18-year-old nerdy high school senior. Dizzy is friends with Nora, Kirk, and Glen, who together started a funk rock band and are addicted to video games. They attend Rocky Creek High School, where Dizzy is picked on by basically everyone, especially star football player Barclay. This occurs before and after sex symbol Tina Osgood holds his hands, causing him to have an erection and ends up activating the trap where the jocks belittle him with no mercy. Dizzy's white briefs were yanked from underneath his pants and placed around his head - revealing the erect penis in plain sight to nearly everyone instead of "covering it." The school librarian would eventually "break" it after Dizzy refuses to "hand" over the "weapon" to her. Dizzy is misdiagnosed with Tourette's syndrome; he is then placed on medication by the school counselor who advises his father to spend every moment possible with him. While at the mall's food court, the heavily medicated Dizzy makes a fool of himself at a church revival and gets arrested.Actors
DJ Qualls
(Dizzy Harrison / Gil Harris)
Eliza Dushku
(Danielle)
Zooey Deschanel
(Nora)
Eddie Griffin
(Luther)
Jerod Mixon
(Kirk)
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