This film essentially begins with a teenager by the name of "Quinn" (Steven Yaffee) developing a crush on a girl named "Crystal" (Rachel Blanchard) who is new in town and has just moved in to the house across the street. Naturally, wanting to get to know her better, Quinn searches for ways to hang out with her a little more. The problem, however, is that he has been home schooled all of his life and is not only socially awkward but faces severe competition from all of the other boys who attend the same high school as Crystal. If that wasn't bad enough, Quinn's parents "Bryce" (Wallace Langham) and "Diana" (Rosanna Arquette) have adopted a hippy lifestyle, shun society at large--and grow marijuana throughout their house. To top it all off, his slightly younger sister "Hope" (Katie Boland) makes ends meet by selling her parents discarded product on the side. So, to offset some of these disadvantages, he decides to take matters into his own hands and enrolls in the high school to vigorously pursue the girl of his dreams. What he doesn't count on, however, is the mean-spirited reaction by some of the other kids who look down upon him and do everything they can to publicly humiliate him. Now, rather than reveal any more, I will just say this film started off reasonably well but took a rather dark turn towards the end and never really recovered after that. That being said, while I don't consider this to be a bad comedy necessarily, the mishandled ending left me somewhat disappointed and I have rated this film accordingly. Slightly below average.
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