Prom

Plot synopsis:
Class president Nova (Aimee Teegarden) has been planning her high school's prom. She and her friends, Mei (Yin Chang), Ali (Janelle Ortiz), Brandon (Jonathan Keltz), and Rolo (Joe Adler) have created the perfect decorations, which they store in the school's shed. Nova, who has a crush on Brandon, hopes he will ask her to prom.Meanwhile, Lloyd (Nicholas Braun), the "invisible" guy at school, is complaining about prom to his stepsister, Tess (Raini Rodriguez) because he has no date but she encourages him to just ask someone. Elsewhere at the school, Tyler (De'Vaughn Nixon) is confronted by his girlfriend, Jordan (Kylie Bunbury), who assumes he is cheating on her due to the single gold earring she finds in his car. He assures her this is not the case, and Jordan believes him."Bad boy" Jesse Richter (Thomas McDonell) has been missing school lately and showing other "unacceptable" behavior, such as riding his motorcycle on school grounds. Principal Dunnan (Jere Burns) has a talk with him, but is not satisfied with Jesse's attitude.Mei learns she has been accepted into Parsons, which conflicts with the plans she made with her boyfriend, Justin (Jared Kusnitz), of going to the University of Michigan together. She is stressed about this and becomes irritable as prom approaches, which she agrees to go with Justin.Sophomore Lucas (Nolan Sotillo) is attracted to Simone (Danielle Campbell), his lab partner, who he tries to get with the help of his friend Corey (Cameron Monaghan).That night, Tyler takes Jordan to the school's shed, which he has decorated with many candles, to ask her to prom, and she agrees. When they leave the shed, however, they forget to put out a single candle. The shed catches fire and burns down. The next day, a devastated Nova, with no decorations and only three weeks to prom, asks her friends for extra help to pull the dance off, which they all back out of, each listing their own reason.Principal Dunnan, seeing her dilemma, has an idea, and forces Jesse to help her for Prom, or he cannot graduate. Although Nova and Jesse both are unhappy with this situation, they comply anyway. At school, Lloyd is having trouble finding a date, even with the help of his sister. As one thing goes wrong after another, Lloyd loses confidence and becomes frustrated.Later at home, Brandon shows up at Nova's house to tell her he cannot take her to prom, and that she will have to find another date. As the date becomes closer to prom, Nova and Jesse grow closer while working together.During lacrosse practice, Tyler invites Lucas to the team barbecue, and tells him to invite a girl. Lucas decides to ask Simone, which she agrees to. At Tyler's barbecue, Tyler tries to make a move on Simone, only to be rejected by her. It is made clear they have a history. Simone tells Lucas that if she had known it was Tyler's barbecue, she would not have come. Mei's attitude is becoming worse and worse, and Justin believes she does not want to go to prom. He calls the date off, and Mei is left feeling very uncomfortable. One night, Nova finds out that the neighboring high school has the same theme for their prom as her own. Jesse suggests they take his motorcycle to go check out the other school's decorations, and she agrees. However, they are caught by the police, who call Nova's parents. Nova's father is infuriated with Jesse and insults him.At school, Lucas is blowing off Corey to spend more time with Simone, and asks her to study for the upcoming test with him, to which she agrees. However, as she is about to go to library, Simone is stopped by Tyler, who convinces her to talk with him. He tells her about his feelings for her. Jordan sees the two talking and immediately grasps the situation.After school, Nova apologizes to Jesse for her father's behavior. Later, she takes him dress shopping. Back at school, Simone apologizes to Lucas for having ditched him. She has a surprise, tickets to a concert, where Stick Hippo (his and Corey's favorite band) is opening. Lucas wants to take Simone instead of Corey, much to Corey's dismay. Jordan dumps Tyler for his unfaithfulness, and decides to go to prom alone. This prompts him to ask Simone to prom, which is the same night as the concert, and she agrees. Simone tells Lucas that she is sorry, but she cannot go to the concert.Mei apologizes to Justin for her behavior and tells him the truth, but instead of feeling hurt that she is going to a different college, he tells her he is proud of her. They agree that they should still go to prom together.Lloyd spots Lucas sitting outside the school, looking dejected. He learns his situation, and tells Lucas his own mistake with girls and high school. Lloyd tells Lucas that if he really loves Simone, he should tell her.Two nights before the prom, Nova, Ali, and Mei are in Nova's room, talking. Nova confesses to them that she has feelings for Jesse, which her dad unfortunately overhears. The next day, Nova's father tells Jesse he cannot ask Nova to prom, because he is "bringing her down". That afternoon, Jesse is unusually hostile towards Nova and deserts her.On prom night, Lucas climbs a tree to reach Simone's window. He tells her how he feels and begs her not to go to prom, but she goes anyway. Disappointed, Lucas realizes what a bad friend he has been to Corey, and offers him the other concert ticket. The two head off to see their favorite band happily.At her house, Nova is heartbroken, and refuses to pose for the camera in her prom dress. Her father, worried, explains that he was the one who told Jesse not to ask her to prom. Angered, Nova storms out of the house. Meanwhile, at Lloyd's house, it is revealed that he is taking his sister to prom. At Jesse's house, his mother has a talk with him, and he realizes that he should still take Nova to prom.At the school, Tyler leads Simone into the building, and almost immediately abandons her. Simone finds out from a couple of girls that it was actually Jordan who dumped Tyler, and Tyler had gone to her with no other option. When Tyler asks her to dance (He was crowned prom king and Jordan queen) she refuses and leaves. She goes to the concert parking lot, where she waits for Lucas, and they share a dance.Nova is having an awful time at prom, and when Ali tells her the fountain centerpiece is broken, she cannot take it anymore. As she is about to leave, she hears the fountain work again, and knows the only person who could have fixed it was Jesse. He walks up to her and asks her to prom. She agrees, and they dance and share a kiss.

Tags: romantic

Review:
So I'm sure a lot of people saw this from the trailer, but Prom is a classic Disney spin on a very big moment in a teenager's life.
Yes this movie is a preteen/early teen's dream about the life and drama involved in asking someone out for prom and the plans that go in it.
The scenarios are a romance story between the class president and a ruffian, another love story between a dweeb and a beautiful sophomore, a small side story about a guy trying to get someone to come to a prom, another story of deceit and betrayal, and finally a story about an ideal relationship hitting a rocky course.
Despite the poor main story line and the intense drama from others I enjoyed the brief interludes present throughout the movie that involved the unknown loser Lloyd and his quest to ask a girl out.
It adds zest to the film and makes one feel like they are in prom, but if you're not a fan of mainstream radio then you will not enjoy it.
The camera work is nice too, and the setting does actually feel like a high school setting so that's another thing I find positive.
However this movie was also like being in high school musical, except get rid of the singing and dancing and instead replace it with Twilight qualities.
To wrap this up, Prom is a movie that will make teenage girls go gaga and laugh at almost every scene.
However, it is a cute, high school soap opera that will entertain those that like to see happy endings and smiles.
Disney movies are known to be, well, "Disney Clean." But when a film is swabbed down to the point of utter harmlessness, and it sugarcoats the nightmares and sadness some experience during prom, it ultimately becomes laughably unrealistic and a pale shadow of the real event.There's nothing wrong with being all well and good, but the events in Prom are executed very poorly, the drama is handled in a fictitious way, and the overall result is calamity.
Hollywood is able to create a convincing high school premise, but they can't create convincing high school characters.The story is almost an anthology series of a plethora of boys and girls getting ready for "that one special night" of prom.
Prom is said to be one of the greatest nights in a teenager's life, and these kids are hellbent on that believing in that philosophy.
She is the over-achieving high school girl who wants the Senior Prom to be perfect.
He is a little like me in that sense, but even he can't escape the true high school formula for creating teenagers.This film has everyone; the jock, the cheater, the scared girl, the persistent boyfriend, the geeks, the pretty girl, the over-achiever, the rebel, etc.
The story itself is very slim, but even being so small, it could've spawned a good film.I always try to find the target audience in films, and it seems Prom is shooting below the bar.
Seniors who will be attending prom will likely not be amused or even interested by such a film, and people around the age of eight will either not know what prom is or find the film by complete accident.
It does a fine job at showing the very basic problems and events that go into such a dance, but still, if this had been made by any other company but Disney, it likely would've focused on more personal problems and more of the serious issues rather than just "what dress should I wear?" This isn't incredibly disgraceful film-making.
Again - standard Disney fare, but this time, Disney misses the target and the target audience.Starring: Aimee Teegarden, Thomas McDonell, Yin Chang, Nicholas Braun, Dean Norris, Danielle Campbell, Nolan Sotillo, Cameron Monaghan, Christine Elise, and Raini Rodriguez.
I can however see how it would be a great movie for much much younger kids because it is very clean and good natured.
But if you're looking for the kind of teen romcom humor as in John Tucker Must Die or Mean Girls, do not waste your time on this movie.
The only thing made me go through this movie was Amee Teegarden and Thomas McDowell's story because as incomplete and typical it was, they brought some charm to it.
Very entertaining, touching high-school movie....
Their story was predictable ( like the whole movie in general), but it was nicely done.
Of course, just like I said, movie is predictable, sometimes corny and unrealistic, but that doesn't mean that it's bad.
At the end of the day, it's just comedy about high- school.Overall: With all of this, some positive energy reaches to your heart, while you're watching "Prom", at least in my case.
Although painfully innocent, rude or even subtly rude gags completely left out, and remarkably cliché (almost all moments were predicted by people in the room while watching), PROM is a light-hearted, humorous and generally nice tale of the most important moment to teenagers about to leave school.Most enjoyable was the acting of Lloyd, played by Nicholas Braun, and just how believable and funny the small story lines for him were.
Their troubles with getting dates, fixing destroyed decorations, and a bunch of other high school drama stuff that is neither interesting nor realistic.
I understand Prom is geared towards the TWEEN crowd and I'm sure those tween girls will love this movie.
His story about trying to get a girl to go to prom with him and failing each time is the only funny bits and it's due to the performance he manages to give.
She is also the prom committee organizer and when two teens accidentally burn down all the decorations, she is partnered up with the resident 'bad boy' to get them all back in working order.
It's a shame that the two actors didn't have any chemistry with each other.The second character story I had a problem with involved a young guy trying to be on the lacrosse team.
Tyler, team captain, soon to be prom king and all around popular guy sees the cute girl with the freshman and decides to use him to get to her.
If I want a film that helps me discover who I am at that age, I watch John 'fricken' Hughes my friend, not a cheaply made Disney flick..
This movie, by Disney, is about as G rated as they come when dealing with teens.
This movie should have been about 6th graders instead of high school seniors.
Any way the main story centers around the prom decorations being destroyed.
I heard many of the boys talking to one another (we are so much like those two guys, etc.) The girls in the audience could relate to the girls in the movie.
It is the perfect "date" movie with your little girl!
PromWhen a high school hosts a 1920s-themed Prom and the graduating class comes dressed in Civil War attire, it is irrefutable evidence our education system is failing.Thankfully, the premise of the promenade in this teen-comedy does not involve any historical accuracy.
When all of the decorations for the prom perish in a random fire, the class president (Aimee Teegarden) is left scrabbling.Serendipitously, the class badass (Thomas McDonell) infuriates the principal, garnering himself a severe punishment, wherein he must help craft the new ornaments.Simultaneously, a host of other clichéd high school romances sprout up and play out in similar fashion.A rose coloured representation of high school graduation, Disney's Prom is squeaky clean: the actors are fresh faced, the vignettes are wishy-washy and the jokes are sterile.Besides, how can you even call it a senior prom if there wasn't even one abandoned newborn found in the toilet?
So there's no reason I shouldn't give it a 10.And I remembered some of my experiences from my high-school experience (which was a calm and beautiful one), which was another indicator that I liked the movie.So yep, it gets a 10 from me..
I think this is very interesting high school movie..
In this story a group of teenagers are getting ready for their high school prom.
The first story is about a girl and a boy who make the prom decorations, the second story is about a boy who loves another girl but pretends like he is love with another girl, the last story is about a boy who is shy and always waits for the right time.
Still given Magic Kingdom parameters the Disney Studios they came out with a nice G rated product.Several teen romance stories are involved in Prom.
They should make movies that kids can watch at the ages through 5-13 that don't always have kissing and couples in them!
and whats the point in having a movie with a bunch of soon to be college kids when seventeen year old aren't even bothered about watching movies like prom!
And I rarely watch movies like prom but I had nothing left to watch so I decided to try and watch it, BAD CHOICE..
The only thing I liked about this movie is that the bad guy turns out to be the winner.
The hero (anti-hero) was pretty much a carbon copy of Judd Nelson in The Breakfast Club; and of course, the guy from the wrong side of the tracks falls for the rich girl, dad warns him off, but it all comes right in the end.To my surprise it picked up, and I even had a smile on my face by the end, which is surely the point of these sugary tween movies.
The rest of the cast were serviceable if a little less memorable.As for the plot and writing, it was all of course hopelessly predictable, and some of the lines will have you laughing for the wrong reasons, but somehow it was almost refreshing to watch a film where I knew there would be a happy ending.
Here, the good guys get together, lessons are learned, and there are enough nice little sweet moments like the candy necklace (no pun intended) to feel your intelligence hasn't been insulted too much by sitting through a movie that really anyone over thirteen will have seen many times before.
This was really a surprisingly good movie.The acting was good and there were some really well developed characters.There was the pretty smart girl, the tough guy with the big heart, the geek without a date and the bumbling newbies to the school.There was also some very funny and well thought-out scenes.The guy with the imaginary Greek girlfriend really cracked me up, "She's not allowed to have a Facebook profile because she got grounded for clubbing too late".Also, the tough guy story was also very believable and the working relationship with him and the smart girl was very well done.I am surprised that users would give this movie a negative rating.
High-schoolers are getting ready for prom, led by the over-achieving, blonde, class president, but who is being opposed by the local rebel.The rebel is the leather jacket-wearing, too-cool-for-school, dark and handsome type with long hair.
Next year, he will at least play him in the up-coming "Dark Shadows" (2012) where Depp is the vampire Barnabas Collins and McDonell is the "young Barnabas Collins." Instead of writing in additional plot lines (i.e. more than just getting ready for prom), we got additional characters (all of them getting ready for prom).
Prom night - guys and girls anxious to get their dates.
All packed in a neat Disney way without too much of a fuss, with some bad, mediocre and good acting thrown in together.I enjoyed the movie.
Nobody has the time to help, and the school principal forces the misunderstood bad boy Jesse Richter (Thomas McDonell) to help redo all the decorations.There is really only two things anybody needs to know about this movie.
This movie could have been better but they did add a good plot, theme, and setting for the story of a high school prom.
He displayed the type of person who changes in a story at first he didn't care about prom at all he felt like it was a waist of time, then he fell in love and made the show a great one that i enjoyed greatly.I would recommend this movie to anyone who is an adult or teen 11-any age..
It's one of the biggest night in high school and Disney's movie "Prom" brings to life the biggest days for many juniors in high school.
With multiple story lines, humorous interactions, and real life situations the movie captures what is going through the minds of teenage girls all over the United States.
The movie steps into the life of high school students trying to prepare for prom while still managing all other aspects of life.
The main focus duo, Nova (Aimee Teegarden), who returns to the role of the perfect A+ student that she played in "Friday Night Lights", and Jesse (Thomas McDonell), who is the resident bad boy in the film, are forced to work together after a fire destroys all the prom decorations.
Nova also faces the fear of going to prom alone as all her friends are getting asked and she's not.
Lloyd (Nicholas Braun) brings the most humor to the movie with his failed attempts at asking girls, yes plural, to prom.
Having numerous story lines usually leads to confusion but in this movie the cast works smoothly together feeding off the chemistry and skills of their co-stars.
Prom (2011): Dir: Joe Nussbaum / Cast: Aimee Teegarden, Thomas McDonell, DeVaughn Nixon, Danielle Campbell, Yin Chang: Dreadful teen comedy about that hopeful night full of fear and anxiety with regards to acceptance.
Thomas McDonell plays the bad ass who turns out to be the misunderstood good guy.
This is a perfect teenage life story movie.
Everything that someone could experience during high-school was in this movie.
The fact that the good girl had to work with the bad boy, and changed him, was perfect.
Well The Disney's prom is not a movie which i expected.
It was missing the fun when watching this show i didn't see my self laughing and i am a very peppy girl that laughs when i get a good joke or even a stupid joke i would laugh because it's senseless but i didn't do that much through the whole movie.
It's not the normal garbage movie like "She's All That" (1999) where the "ugly" girl that is clearly beautiful is given a "makeover" and gets the most popular/attractive/nice/smart/etc.
While Jesse Richter (Thomas McDonell) is the tough guy that has no dreams and bashes everything since he's had a tough life.So Nova's prom decorations get destroyed and the rest of the prom committee does not have the time to help her rebuild (internships, A.P. tests, exhaustion, etc.).
I never went to my high school prom.
A cute movie about an important rite of passage: senior prom.The movie stars Aimee Teegarden as Nova Prescott, your typical honor student.
We see him slowly change during the course of the movie and begin caring about prom and the young class president.
McDonell is perfect in this role and my favorite in the film.With the exception of these two leads, the rest of the movie is made up of a plethora of different characters.
There's the sophomore boy, Lucas, who is in love with his classmate Simone, who wants to go to prom with the biggest jock in school.
One person I really enjoyed was Rolo, who goes through the whole movie claiming that his date will be coming to prom, but us never seeing her.
He is portrayed as a loving father who wants what is best for his little girl.Special effects in this movie are minimal; but in a story like this, you do not need a lot of graphics.
The dresses worn by the girls at prom were beautiful, but a few looked too conservative for high school.
Again, being a Disney film, swearing is not allowed.While not the best movie in the world, I found myself quite entertained throughout it and eagerly anticipated the next time I would see it.
I had resisted watching Prom for the longest time, as I'd seen the low rating and read more of the unflattering reviews.
What you get for 100 minutes is a semi-sweet semi-interesting story that's unlike your own high school days...with a few exceptions of course.Even though the movie starts by quickly introducing several cast members the only one the movie really concentrates on is Nova, the nice, super involved class president trying to get the perfect Prom event organized, until a fire destroys her efforts till date and she's got to start all over again.The downside to the movie is that Nova's story is not really that interesting.
Jesse's character is too one dimensional and superficial...the misunderstood bad boy rebel that we've seen in practically every teen movie, spoof or not.
According to Nova Prom represents the togetherness, the camaraderie that four years of high school has developed.
Instead, it is a serious look at the coming of age among graduating high school students and what prom means to them-not only the fun associated, but it is certainly a coming of age film.Of the variety of stories told among the seniors, the most poignant, of course, is the one involving Nova and Jesse.
Just a fluff of a high school movie, the kids getting ready for prom..
Interestingly, in their IMDb profiles many do not indicate their birthday (or even year) so it isn't easy to tell how old they are.There are several stories going on in parallel, but early on when the 'good girl', the high achieving class president, and the 'bad boy', the motorcycle riding guy who usually skips out last period every Monday, have an uncomfortable dialog in the Principal's waiting area, we know that they are destined to end up falling in love.
It is that type of movie.Being a Disney film, rated PG, there is no bad language or even sexual innuendo.