Awkward boy

Rating: 3/10 (12 August 2016)

It doesn't get more average than this. Gyllenhaal's previous acting efforts aside, this movie leaves the viewer with a wafer-like taste in their mouths.
Artists like Matchbox Twenty, Uncle Kracker and Crazy Town were all on the Billboard Year-End Hot 100 singles the same year that this movie was released. The teenage angst was palpable at the time. Everyone was misunderstood and no one appreciated it.
But then there was this boy, this borderline intelligent boy ("hey"), that didn't really fit in at all with the rest of the established society ("HEY") and that longed for self-made discomfort ("THAT'S ME!").
It worked. The young morons of those days longed to have a name as ridiculous as "Donnie Darko" and the movie grossed 7 million dollars.