The Beautiful Ordinary (2007)

User Rating:

5.9/10   

Director:

Jess Manafort

Writer:

Jess Manafort (writer)

Genre:

Comedy | Drama

Plot:

A glimpse into the teenage wasteland of suburbia 1999 that takes place over 24-hours, and the teenagers who make their way through the last day of high school in the last year of the past millennium. |

Plot Keywords:

Marijuana Joint | High School | Fight | Lesbianism | Mushroom

Awards:

1 nomination

Cast

Amber Heard	...	Julia Ford
Alexa Vega	...	Holly
Luka Apt	...	Boy 3
Katrina Begin	...	Sylvia
Charles Chen	...	Thomas
Melonie Diaz	...	Brianne
Sunny Doench	...	Mrs. Turner
Caroline Dollar	...	Kiki
Shahine Ezell	...	Eddie
Lyndsy Fonseca	...	Dawn
Robert X. Golphin	...	Boy 2
Duncan M. Hill	...	Mod's Classmate
Aaron Himelstein	...	Riley
Max Hoffman	...	Zack
Thomas Holmes III	...	Ponte

Also Known As:

Remember the Daze (USA) (new title)

MPAA:

Rated R for pervasive drug and alcohol use, strong language and some sexual content - all involving teens.

Runtime:

101 min

Country:

USA

Language:

English

Color:

Color

Aspect Ratio:

2.35 : 1

Sound Mix:

Dolby Digital | Dolby SR

Certification:

USA:R

Filming Locations:

Wilmington, North Carolina, USA

Company:

Persistent Entertainment

Movie Connections:

References The Matrix (1999)

Soundtrack:

For Me This is Heaven

Avoid

I hate to sound like an old parent, which I am, but this movie is truly awful. You have 25 year olds playing 17 year olds and 20 year olds playing 14 year olds and every conversation deals with smoking weed or getting wasted. Is that by itself supposed to be funny? The movie is set in 1999, so maybe it is attempting to be a Dazed and Confused for the Millennium, but it's missing minor details like good acting or characters you could care about. Or dialogue other than "let's smoke some weed". It's not even a good T & A movie like an old 70's drive-in movie, as there's no T or A, which is a good thing as 18 year old Alexa Vega is playing a 14 year old!!! The only interest in this movie is seeing what young actors/actresses pop up ("There's Zero from Holes", "That's the guy from Joan of Arcadia", "That's the guy from What I Like About You"....) And when Moira Kelly appears you feel sorry for her. Moira - you deserve better!!! Maybe Alexa Vega wanted something that's a departure from Spy Kids, but this movie is a departure from any standards of filmaking. If I could give this a zero I'd do so, but 1 is as low as IMDb goes. I guess the 1 is for one scene in the middle where there's only music, and no dialogue.

If the entire movie was only music maybe I'd give it a 5 as I wouldn't have to listen to the inane dialogue and I could just enjoy looking at Amber Heard and Katrina Begin and Melonie Diaz.