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Synopsis: It's South Africa, 1990. Two major events are about to happen: The release of Nelson Mandela and, more importantly, it's Spud Milton's first year at an elite boys only private boarding school. John Milton is a boy from an ordinary background who wins a scholarship to a private school in Kwazulu-Natal, South Africa. Surrounded by boys with nicknames like Gecko, Rambo, Rain Man and Mad Dog, Spud has his hands full trying to adapt to his new home. Along the way Spud takes his first tentative steps along the path to manhood. (The path it seems could be a rather long road). Spud is an only child. He is cursed with parents from well beyond the lunatic fringe and a senile granny. His dad is a fervent anti-communist who is paranoid that the family domestic worker is running a shebeen from her room at the back of the family home. His mom is a free spirit and a teenager's worst nightmare, whether it's shopping for Spud's underwear in the local supermarket, or sneaking food into her handbag at sc
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Director(s): Donovan Marsh
Production: Nu Metro Films
 
IMDB:
6.7
Rotten Tomatoes:
80%
Year:
2010
103 min
Website
864 Views


Do not play smart.

Two rim if you gramser,

five if you take her on breast-

- And ten, if you touch her

the most holy place.

- It costs five to be with.

- I'm with.

I save the worst for last ...

Stand up, Milton.

This young man is a good example

on what women crave.

He is the only one of you fools-

- Who has scored more

than 50% of the job.

You can sit down.

I had to write about influence

in modern literature.

Is this it best you baboons

For the?

Dumped. Not one of you came in.

the greatest influence of all.

If it were not for sex, adultery-

- Fornication, korpulering and knalderi-

- There would never have been

written a single book.

- But what about the Bible?

- Good question.

Milton! Bible ...

Clean or sexy?

Grandma says that it is full of sodomy

and incest, and should be banned for children.

Exactly!

Well, I puberty monkeys.

Auf Wiedersehen!

- John ...

- Yes, sir?

Welcome to Paradise Lost.

Your grandmother sounds to be

an interesting slut.

Yes, sir. She is potty. She calls

me David, and we call her Wombat.

My whole family

is actually quite crazy.

So I have the perfect book for you.

It is not really a book,

it's a play.

It's called "The absurd drama".

- Thank you, sir.

- Do not thank me, just read it!

So can you tell us what you think.

I think it is fantastic.

- Get out now, there is lunch.

- Yes, sir.

I hoped that the play would

act on how scores.

But it is about two tramps,

living in a ditch.

They are waiting for a man,

named Godot.

But he never arrived.

It's creepy strange.

SCHOOL game becomes "OLIVER

TWIST. "TEST TOMORROW

This is it.

Robert de Niro, beware!

- Are you satisfied, John?

- Yes, ma'am.

You can call me "Marion".

Who is the

happiest old idiot in the world?

- Now you have no more wine!

- Last glasses, I promise.

Relax, you're stiff as a stick.

Drink a little wine.

- I have not.

- Nonsense. What do you think?

- About what?

- Drama.

I do not know.

Oh, Johnno ...

I guess I do not have to yell at you?

Tell Just.

- Nothing happens.

- Exactly.

It's like life.

We are waiting for something to happen,

but it does not.

And what are we waiting for?

God? The meaning of life?

Death?

Perhaps we are waiting to become adults.

But it will never be.

Wise words, young man.

Let's drink to it.

Why is it absurd?

The sound normal.

We are sitting here surrounded

of a kind of fantasy world.

The actual absurd is that most

not seem to notice it.

- The school is the most absurd world.

- And I've taught here for 27 years.

An absurd vagrant in a ditch ...

... The wayside.

My mother believes that God's greatest gift

to humanity's freedom of choice.

It is not something

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