First Look: Youth In Revolt
To our suprise, this film is not about the Iranian election protests going on. It’s the new Dimension Films movie based on the 1993 novel that had has a cult following. This is your first look at the newly released teaser poster that launches their marketing campaign around the film. Hopefully the dismal reviews of Year One do not put a damper on the Michael Cera “brand”. We have not read the book, but friends have said that the “R” rating the film received is on point with the sex/drugs in the book. The official synopsis of the film sounds like many other teenage angst films:
“Nick Twisp (Michael Cera) is a cynical sex-obsessed 16-year-old who, while on vacation in a trailer park, meets Sheeni Saunders (Portia Doubleday), an intellectual. But the only things really standing in his way is Sheeni’s poetry-writing, ex-boyfriend Trent and his ignorant divorced parents (Steve Buscemi and Jean Smart), and Mom’s boyfriends (Zack Galifianakis and Ray Liotta)”
They have a great cast in place, potentially great source material (we need to read the novel), and hopefully Michael Cera will play something slightly different than the typical Michael Cera role.
The film’s release date has been moved quite a few times (was supposed to release in February 2009), but now is locked in for October 30th, 2009.
Consider us more than mildly excited about Youth in Revolt. More to come.
