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A young war reenactor makes a friend on the battlefield who helps him use strategy to take on his high school enemy. Driven by newfound confidence, he seduces the friend's fetching older sister and risks the friendship. Reality intervenes when the illness of his ex-addict father forces the anger his irony masks to the surface and he has to decide if staying in a fantasy world is worth the consequences.
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Taglines:
When you're 17, every day is war
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Release Date:
22 August 2003 (USA)
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Also Known As:
A Batalha de Shaker Heights
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Box Office
Budget:
$1,000,000
(estimated)
Opening Weekend USA:
$47,693,
24 August 2003, Limited Release
Gross USA:
$279,282, 14 September 2003
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Aspect Ratio:
1.85 : 1
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Did You Know?
Trivia
The test screenings showed that the audience had trouble figuring out whether it was a comedy or a teen drama. Directors
Kyle Rankin and
Efram Potelle and Miramax were fighting towards the end of post production on what genre it should be. The directors felt it should be a teen drama, Miramax thought it should be a comedy (because it was a marketing genre). Rankin and Potelle eventually gave in and cut it as a comedy.
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Goofs
The position of the lawnmower on the lawn in subsequent shots at the end of the movie.
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Quotes
[
first lines]
Maurice:
[
in German]
I have to take a leak.
Kelly:
[
holding a knife to his neck from behind]
Ssh.
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Connections
Spun-off from
Project Greenlight (2001)
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Soundtracks
Happy Kid
Written by Caws/Lorca/Elliot
Performed by
Nada Surf
Nada Surf appears courtesy of Barsuk Records
Songs as Pets (BMI)/Karmacode (ASCAP)
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User Reviews
HBO did a "Real TV" series on the making of BSH which portrayed the co-directors, Efram Potelle & Kyle Rankin as two self-absorbed numb-nuts. Be ready to see why these two guys won the Project Greenlight Director contest in the first place! The movie is awesome given the absurd conditions they were given. I was personally present at the premier & was pleasantly surprised to find myself laughing out loud (along with 800 other attendees in the packed theatre). The movie brought you through a whole gamut of emotions in a very believable, "everyone can relate to" story line. With another wonderful performance by Shia, a well written script and two obviously very talented directors (who once again prove they can do more than comedy) The Battle of Shaker Heights is destined for good things...if Miramax allows it.