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Director : Kyle Cooper
Producer : Billy Higgins, John Hughes
Screenwriter : James Hughes
Starring : Todd Field, Will Estes, Blake Shields, Kevin Christy, Melissa George
Great premise, no delivery.
New Port South tells what ought to be an interesting story but flubs it at
every step of the way. New Port South is a Chicago suburb and the name of a
highschool, where a distressed kid named Maddox (Blake Shields) wants to fight
the power. Not only does he equate the constant monitoring of highschool with
prison, he's sure there's some conspiracy surrounding a teen who caused a lot
of trouble two years earlier. Maddox decides to organize a propaganda campaign
and organizes other forms of civil disobedience... to what end? His goals are
never clear, except that he wants to take pictures instead of write papers.
Well who don't!?
Unfortunately, the story goes virtually nowhere, with pranks being pulled and
administrators tearing their hair out, and nary a conspiracy is exposed. And
while the plot might have been salvaged by a charismatic lead, Shields is
sadly miscast in the lead, having all the energy (and the appearance) of a
marshmallow with blonde hair.
If you really want to see high school sent up properly, check out Malcolm
McDowell's timeless (yet equally poorly-titled) If....
We meet under the green pole at midnight!
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" Weak "
Rating: PG-13, 2001