At Pacific Palisades High, a poor Latino falls hard for a troubled girl from an affluent neighborhood.
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| Cast overview, first billed only: | |||
| Kirsten Dunst | ... | Nicole Oakley | |
| Jay Hernandez | ... | Carlos Nuñez | |
| Bruce Davison | ... | Tom Oakley | |
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Herman Osorio | ... | Luis |
| Miguel Castro | ... | Eddie | |
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Tommy De La Cruz | ... | Victor |
| Rolando Molina | ... | Hector | |
| Soledad St. Hilaire | ... | Mrs. Nunez | |
| Lucinda Jenney | ... | Courtney Oakley | |
| Taryn Manning | ... | Maddy | |
| Richard Steinmetz | ... | Coach Bauer | |
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Ana Argueta | ... | Rosa |
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Neil Looy | ... | Jimmy - The Pilot |
| Marion Moseley | ... | Morgan Oakley | |
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Mike Jones | ... | Dr. Linehan |
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Jay Hernandez stars as Carlos Nunez, a poor but athletically gifted Latino teenager who endures a two-hour bus ride every day from East L.A. to attend the posh, wealthy Pacific Palisades High School in Los Angeles on a football scholarship. A straight-A student, Carlos is focused and driven, but his future is cast in doubt when he becomes the flirtation target of spoiled, self-destructive bad girl Nicole Oakley (Kirsten Dunst), who's the daughter of a prominent congressman (Bruce Davison). When his friends, family, and even Nicole's own father oppose the romance for Carlos' sake, he chooses to ignore their advice and stubbornly pursues his relationship with Nicole, whose feelings grow from simple physical attraction to something much deeper.
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29 June 2001 (USA) See more »Also Known As:
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$13,000,000 (estimated)Opening Weekend USA:
$4,715,060, 1 July 2001, Wide ReleaseGross USA:
$16,929,123, 26 August 2001Company Credits
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Written by W. Geer, J. Shain, M. Young, C. Benekos, B. Vaught and D. Boyce
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Kirsten Dunst's character Nicole was originally supposed to have a nude scene. When Carlos comes to Nicole's house and they plan to have sex, Nicole leaves the bedroom in a cut off shirt and her underwear and walks into the kitchen past the maid to retrieve some condoms, then returns to her bedroom. In the script she was supposed to do this nude. See more »Goofs
The position of Nicole's arms when the police car leaves the house changes. See more »Soundtracks
Killing TimeWritten by W. Geer, J. Shain, M. Young, C. Benekos, B. Vaught and D. Boyce
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This is a great executed romantic teen movie. Even though nothing in the story of course happens as a real surprise, the movie still knows how to create a believable and touching story about love with more than enough original touches in it.
The main reason why the movie works so well is thanks to the two main actors of the movie; Kirsten Dunst and Jay Hernandez. Both are great in their roles and their love story in the movie is believable and realistic. Their cultural difference are nicely shown in the movie but their social class difference is perhaps a bit underdeveloped and underused. They could had done some nice things with this story element, so it's a bit of a missed opportunity for the movie.
The story is nicely told and the stereotypical elements of a romantic teen movie are as much as possible avoided. It succeeds most of the time in this and because of that the movie is better than the average romantic teen comedy.
It's a perfectly watchable movie mainly targeted towards teens, however also different age groups should be able to appreciate this movie and its love story. A recommendable movie but by no means a must see of course.
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