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Synopsis: A coming-of-age story set in 1965 that follows 12-year-old Andy Nichol (Chase Ellison), a bright student who, like most kids his age, will do anything to avoid conflict for fear of suffering overwhelming ridicule and punishment from his junior high school peers. Everyone's favorite teacher, Mr. Simon (Ed Harris), pairs Andy with the school's biggest outcast and social pariah, Stanley, aka "Big G" (Alexander Walters), on a critical term project. Sporting thick orange hair, a head too big for his body and ears too big for his head, "Big G" has been the object of ridicule since grade school. Before long, Andy will learn that there was truly a method behind Mr. Simon's madness as to why he teamed these two up. As the story unfolds, Mr. Simon finds himself the target of a malicious rumor after Principal Kelner (Amy Madigan) suspends a school bully for brutally beating up a female classmate whom he thinks has "cooties." When Andy watches "Big G" fearlessly confront the school bully, a series
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Director(s): Michael Pavone
Production: Samuel Goldwyn Films
  1 nomination.
 
IMDB:
7.1
Metacritic:
53
Rotten Tomatoes:
60%
PG
Year:
2011
101 min
Website
216 Views


Touch her again and say the words:

From this, the cooties came

With this, the cooties shall remain

Freel, I'm losing you, man.

Stay focused.

Okay, okay.

- With this, the cooties came...

- From this.

From this, the cooties came

With this, the cooties shall remain

Okay, okay.

From this. From this. From this...

- All right, I got it. Thanks. I owe you one.

- Hey, Freel. One last thing.

You gotta do it on her territory.

- Geek Corner?

- Yeah, Geek Corner.

Why don't you give Ricky Brown

your lunch? Or do his homework?

- Cut some deal with him.

- Because it's not right.

Right? What does that have to do

with getting our asses kicked?

Damn it, Stanley.

Why do you have to make things tough?

You shouldn't swear, Norman.

Do you mind? I'd like to get going.

Right, sorry. Didn't wanna keep you here

any longer than you have to be.

I mean, it's pretty courageous

of you risking terminal cooties.

- What are your buddies gonna think?

- I got news for you, Normie.

Even if you weren't a complete geek,

people would beat the crap out of you.

Stanley, Jason Freel's got Karen.

From this, the cooties...

Freel recited the absolving incantation

as he whipped Karen with his jacket.

He could not bring himself to actually

touch her, but then who would know?

He could always say he did.

With this, they shall remain

With his feet dangling a foot off

the ground, Jason Freel found religion.

- And prayed to the Lord Big G.

- Break his neck. No, no, wait.

Let me get some of his friends to watch,

then break his neck.

No.

No.

Are you completely insane?

You had him.

You could have broken him in two.

I mean, you could have at least held him

and I hit him with a brick or something.

Do you wanna work some more

on the project?

Norman's right. I don't get it.

Why do you let guys like Freel and Ricky

always make fun of you all the time?

I can't make them be nice people.

And even if I did, there'd be others

that take their place.

If I had Big G's body,

I'd have kicked Freel's ass.

Then I'd have kicked Ricky Brown's ass

just to cool down.

You probably thought it was funny.

No.

I didn't.

Screw it. So Freel beats me up.

He was probably gonna do that anyway.

I'm telling Mr. Simon.

Karen?

Karen, it's Mr. Simon.

Karen, I'm coming in, honey.

Please go away, Mr. Simon.

I'll be okay.

I'm gonna open the door, sweetheart.

Please go away.

No, I'm gonna open the door. It's okay.

Here. Give me your hand, sweetheart.

Come on.

Don't let them see you like this.

It's okay.

What happened to you?

Who did this to you?

The word had spread quickly

that Mr. Simon was extremely upset.

And that it was quite possible

Jason Freel...

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Michael Pavone

Michael "Mike" Pavone is an American film director, screenwriter, television producer/writer and former executive vice president of WWE Studios with WWE before his departure from the company in August 2011. more…

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