Plot
A group of Los Angeles teenagers meet every day at their local diner hangout to discus their latest misadventures with their miserable lives.

Release Year: 2001

Rating: 5.7/10 (1,715 voted)

Director: R.D. Robb

Stars: Amber Benson, Scott Bloom, Kevin Connolly

Storyline
A group of Los Angeles teenagers meet every day at their local diner hangout to discus their latest misadventures with their miserable lives.

Writers: Bethany Ashton Wolf, Tawd Beckman

Cast:
Amber Benson - Amy
Scott Bloom - Brad
Kevin Connolly - Jeremy
Leonardo DiCaprio - Derek
Jenny Lewis - Sara
Tobey Maguire - Ian
Heather McComb - Constance
Meadow Sisto - Juliet
Marissa Ribisi - Tracy
Jeremy Sisto - Bernard
Toledo Diamond - Acid Jazz Artist
Andre Berryman - Band
John Brooks - Band
Jeffrey Connor - Band
Walter Davis - Band

Release Date: 24 August 2001

Filming Locations: Los Angeles, California, USA

Gross: €6,297 (Spain) (31 August 2002)

Runtime: 89 min

Trivia:
Filmed in 1995-96.

Goofs:
Audio/visual unsynchronized: Near the end before Derek kicks over the table in the bar he is mouthing words but we don't get to hear what he is saying.

Not so bad for a youthful lapse

Rating:

When I rented this film, I was not aware that it was hard to get. I thought it hadn't released in the cinema in Belgium because it was too dark and had simple ended up in a dim corner of the rental place. I didn't have too high expectations. Afterwards I checked for user comments here and felt people were being a bit too harsh. It is true that impact is a little bit lost sometimes because it's hard to relate with the characters. It's hard to admit for anyone that they've asked out a 'friend' sometimes just for accompaniment and self-gratification like the characters seem to do in this film. But I'm a 100 % sure that everyone has done it at least once in their life. This film is hard to watch cause it takes this very aspect of relationships and puts in under a magnifying glass. I even had to interrupt watching it, cause the brutality was making me nervous. I think the film is good in the way that it had it's desired effect. It's not your cup of tea if you want to watch something entertaining, something fun with your friends. Acting is very interesting. Because it mainly plays in the same room and the film is in black and white attention is focused on the words, and even more on the gestures and facial expressions of the characters. It's worth watching if you want to watch something that's not main stream. I hope I've helped constructing the right expectations for this film.

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