Cuthbert and Hirsh are fine, but overall a disappointing movie.

Rating: Null/10 (21 January 2005)

This movie uses a very familiar formula. A somewhat older, daring, and attractive person moves in next door to a high school "innocent", and they each help pull the other a bit more towards the middle. Here the innocent is a boy, Matty played by Emile Hirsch, who is smaller than the tough high school boys, who apparently has no girl friends, and is a math whiz who plans to attend Georgetown the next year. Elisha Cuthbert plays Danielle who moves in next door. When Matty finds out that she has no 'boyfriend' he gets interested. However, as we know from the movie trailers, Danielle is a young porn star, a fact that doesn't escape Matty's friend Eli (Chris Marquette, 'Adam' of Joan of Arcadia) for long, because Eli's past time is watching porn.
My favorite character was Kelly, played by Timothy Olyphant. Kelly shows up one day, Matty thinks he might be an old boyfriend, but he really is Danielle's "producer". He talks her into going with him to LV for a porn industry show, she goes figuring she can't realistically escape her past. But Matty follows her, fights for her, she eventually leaves the industry for good.
Most SPOILERS are in the following comments. There is a side story of a $25,000 fund Matty was amassing for a young "genius" to be allowed to come to America for studies, in a questionable twist Kelly steals the money so Matty has to come up with a quick fund raising scheme. During the school prom he recruits the help of a couple of porn stars and his friends, we the audience thinks he is making a porn movie. In reality he is making a sex-education film, and he sells it for enough to replace the stolen $25,000, a loss he mentally writes off as the price to get Danielle out of her industry.
While the overall story has a positive ring to it, the style of the movie was often in poor taste. For example, the character Eli was obsessed with sex, and his dialog was often inappropriate in public, even in this sort of movie. It just seems that they were too often going for the shock value instead of trusting the inherent goodness of the story.
On an aside, I enjoyed Timothy Bottoms as Matty's dad, Mr. Kidman. He played it very low key, in contrast to the character he played, as the President, in the short-lived TV series, "That's My Bush."