Stay away from this movie!

Rating: 1/10 (14 September 2005)

This movie, much like 'American Beauty', is a cynical knock on American family. It turns into a sob story, that I can only imagine the writer (and Hollywood kooks who green-lighted this) thought was sympathetic.
A rich kid spends a lot of couch time (at $200/hr) because people "don't understand" him. So he sets houses on fire, calls his mother a bitch, doesn't take his medication, tells teachers to "shove it up (their) @$$", and basically disrespects all authority. This sounds like every 16 year-old know-it-all punk I've ever known, including myself. Crybaby self-centered jerk.
Fat kids are made fun of, parents are made out to be hypocrites, teachers are out-of-touch and/or scared to save their jobs, and in a sign of any weak script, a gun comes into play in the third act. Save your time and money, and stay away from this movie.