every possible teen angst in two hour period

Rating: 3/10 (4 May 2005)

This was like a large puddle - shallow and muddy. It's a sad day when the best performance in a film is by a C-grade washed up actor playing a washed up singer. Maxwell Caulfield drew from his own experiences and it showed - him I believed. The rest of the characters were so cookie cutter.
I couldn't believe the level of angst and pathos in this film. It just went on and on. I managed a CD/video store for a while and had teenage employees AND worked counseling teenagers for two years. I saw some of those problems, but in one day???!!! Give me a break. The writers got together and threw in the entire table of contents of a high school counselor's handbook. Maybe if the writers had reduced the number of characters and their many manias, there could have been a bit of character development.
And as the store manager, I would have been on the phone so fast to report the theft and the thief. I am not going down for some punk kid who thinks he has the magic touch at a craps table.
I gave it a 3 because I liked the music and from a technical standpoint, it was well done.