Dude (film)
Dude is a 2018 American coming-of-age comedy-drama film directed by Olivia Milch and written by Milch and Kendall McKinnon. The film stars Lucy Hale, Kathryn Prescott, Alexandra Shipp, Awkwafina, Austin Butler and Michaela Watkins. It was released on April 20, 2018, by Netflix. Plot. Lily, Chloe, Amelia, and Rebecca are in their second-to-last year of high school at a junior prom. One night Chloe's brother Thomas takes Lily out onto the field where she tells him that she can not imagine leaving. The two are about to kiss when Rebecca and the  others tell them that their limo has arrived. Lily drops Rebecca and Amelia off at home and then takes Chloe to meet Thomas in the mountains. The three go their separate ways and then Thomas is killed in a car crash on the way home. At the funeral, Chloe hugs her mom crying as Lily remains silent. One year later the girls are in their last year of high school. They arrive at the school stoned again. Lily talks with Noah about prom when their teacher tells them to go to class (not realizing it is his class). Chloe and  Lily walk down the halls recalling how many times they have walked it. Lily then arranges multiple parties at various houses and then makes jokes about Mr Bemis. When the girls get back to the car they discover their Donkey Kong shaped bong named "Donkey Bong". Amelia reveals to Rebecca that her parents are getting a divorce and that she does not think they see her as anything more than an extent of their ego. Lily and Chloe go to see their drug dealer friend Biff who reminds them of Thomas's favourite marijuana strain “cough”. Lily argues with the  principal about what she is good and bad at doing. Chloe walks out onto the field remembering the previous year and plays Thomas's last voice message when Sam consoles and asks her to prom. Noah serenades Lily in an attempt to ask her to prom but fails. Lily and Chloe talk in the car when Rebecca barges in and tells them that a goth girl caught her pleasuring herself to her teacher, Bemis after she encountered him in the library. The girls then go to a house party. Noah arrives and attempts to apologise to her by offering her  a joint and then proceeds to make out with her. Lily walks back into the house (unaware that Chloe has just been accepted into NYU) and smokes out of a makeshift garbage bag bong. The cops arrive when the girls find Rebecca in the bathroom and make fun of her after a bathroom incident. Lily and Sam sell prom tickets the next day when Lily finds out that Liv was traumatised. She tells her that James got her in trouble when he wrote a dirty joke on an essay. After she scolds James, Noah texts her and she goes over  to his house where they both engage in oral sex. The next day Noah's ex threatens her to stay away from him and knocks over a goal keeper. The girls go to another house party when Chloe tells Lily she got into NYU but wants to go to UCSB. Lily does not take it well and begins freaking out; she goes to a room with a boy, Mike from another school who rapes her. Chloe, Rebecca and Amelia all ditch Lily who then waits outside alone until a taxi comes. Lily sits in the cab crying all the way  home. The next morning the girls all go over to Lily's house shortly after which she flips out at Amelia and Rebecca for not telling her about Chloe's acceptance letter. The girls all then start badmouthing Lily after which she walks away. Chloe stops her and tries to tell her that she is being selfish for wanting her to be friends with people who did not know Thomas before he died. Lily continues to be stubborn, forcing Chloe to walk away. An angry Lily drives down the street with a flashback of Thomas playing in her head but  stops when she sees Rebecca at a coffee shop with her potential roommate and mocks them until a police officer comes up to her. Trying to ask her why she is illegally parked, he then notices Donkey Bong in the back. Lily panics until the officer tells her that he would not ruin her life forever but that he is going to mess it up for at least a week. Lily is forced by her mum to smash Donkey Bong. Lily argues with her mum who tries to force her to smash the bong but after Lily walks away she  does it herself and continuously swears. The girls all dodge Lily's calls, leaving her alone. Noah tries to talk to Lily but she remains stubborn, forcing him to walk away. James talks to Lily who realizes she has been selfish. Lily's mum talks to her dad and tells him to come to her graduation if he cares. Chloe has flashbacks of her and the girls. Lily arrives at prom alone and eventually goes to the bathroom and cries. Rebecca talks to Bemis while Lily has a flashback of her and Thomas out on the field confessing that they  love each other and it is not just a fling. Lily regrets doing what she did and apologises to Chloe for being intense about Thomas. Lily tells her that the pain will never go away but that she can not mourn what she could’ve been. The two make up and go back inside. Lily apologises to Amelia and Rebecca. The girls all go back inside and Chloe kicks Mike in the balls. Noah's girlfriend breaks up with him and walks off angrily. Sam takes a picture of the girls who then bury the remains of Donkey Bong who  was smashed like Jon Bong Jovi, Sean Bongery and Bong Connery. Lily gives her graduation speech in front of her friends, then in front of the entire school and then it voice overs after her graduation. Bemis arrives and claims his real name is “Immanuel”. Noah congratulates Lily on her graduation speech and the two kiss. Lily gets a photo taken with her brother and her sister. Amelia then notices that her brownies (which she spiked with marijuana) were consumed by Rosa, who comments on how huge their heads are. The girls all look off into the great sky and  distant Los Angeles as the movie comes to a close. Production. On November 2, 2015, it was announced that Olivia Milch would make her directorial debut with the comedy film, titled "Dude", based on her own script about four best high school girlfriends, with Lucy Hale starring. The script was listed in the 2013 Black List of best unproduced scripts. Heather Rae, Langley Perer, Jimmy Miller, Andrew Duncan, and Jen Isaacson produced the film. The same month, Kathryn Prescott, Alexandra Shipp, Awkwafina, Alex Wolff, Satya Bhabha, Ronen Rubinstein and Austin Butler joined the cast of the film. In December 2015 , Austin Abrams and Jerry McKinnon were also added. Filming. Principal photography on the film began on November 30, 2015 in Los Angeles. Release. In May 2017, Netflix acquired distribution rights to the film. They released the film on their service on April 20, 2018.