: Orange County
Author: Mike White
This was a completely different movie from what I expected. I thought it was a dumb teen comedy. It turned out to be a drama with some depth on top of a dumb teen comedy. The story’s about a surfer dude who discovers the miracle of literature and decides he wants to be a writer. But he’s trapped in Orange County, which he hates. He thinks he can escape by going to Stanford but when he’s not accepted, he goes on a road trip to find the dean and get himself admitted. It’s actually a pretty cool story with some interesting characters. There’s even some clever satiric jabs at life in Orange County. Unfortunately, it was marketed as a dumb teen comedy, and there are a few dumb teen comedy bits in it, which weaken the serious side, and the serious stuff totally dampens the comedy bits, with the result that this isn’t a comedy, and isn’t a drama. It’s… odd. It doesn’t really work.
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