Teenage Dirtbag (film)
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| Directed by | Regina Crosby |
| Produced by | Chris Aagaard Seth Caplan |
| Written by | Regina Crosby |
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Scott Michael Foster Noa Hegesh Regina Crosby |
| Cinematography | Armando Ballesteros |
| Edited by | Andrea Trillo |
| Distributed by |
Vivendi Entertainment Lightyear Entertainment |
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106 minutes |
| Country | United States |
| Language | English |
Teenage Dirtbag is a 2009 drama film starring Scott Michael Foster, Noa Hegesh and written and directed by Regina Crosby. The film is distributed by Vivendi Entertainment and Lightyear Entertainment.
At a local IGA store, a pregnant woman is shocked to learn from an old classmate that a boy she once knew named Thayer died in a river recently. When going back to her car, the woman has a flashback of her time in high school.
The woman is Amber Lange, once a popular cheerleader in high school. Thayer Mangeres is a classmate who always sat beside Amber because of their last names. In class, they are dissecting a fetal pig. When it's time to clean up, Thayer asks people around their table how much they will bet him if he drinks the juice from the fetus. As everyone is putting their money on the table, Amber looks disgusted. Thayer then tells everybody to keep their money, implying that he won't drink it, but he then says he will for free. After the bet, Thayer asks what Amber thought. She tells him that she thinks nothing of him. Ever since that day, he's harassed her.
The next year they are put in Creative Writing and Study Hall together, which class Thayer skips to get high with his friend. For the next couple of days, it's hard for Amber and Thayer to get along. At a party that night, he eats fish that she caught earlier that day from a bowl. Very angry, Amber continually pushes Thayer and asks him why he is such a freak.
Thayer continues to harass Amber in class as a new girl named Tabitha is assigned a seat by them. Eventually Tabitha and Thayer form a friendship, and, knowing that he does not like Amber and bullies her, she does the same. By the soda machine, Thayer flirts with Tabitha, unbeknownst to Tabitha that he is doing this to make Amber jealous. When Amber walks away peeved, he stops, clearly wanting Amber's attention all along. After school, Thayer walks home. He walks in and his father shouts angrily that he got a call from the school about his actions and does not want another call from them. Thayer is frightened by his dad, and his father calls in Thayer's brother Dooley, who physically abuses him, to hold him down while his dad whips him. On the same night, Amber walks into her home, but no one is there.
Back in Creative Writing, Thayer starts to show his emotions in his poems, and Amber realizes this because she feels exactly the same way. Thayer begins a friendship with Amber by asking her questions by writing in his notebook. As their friendship progresses, so do Thayer's feelings. Thayer begins to fall in love with Amber the more they talk. During class, Thayer sends Amber signals in his poems. As Amber hears these poems in class, she knows they are about her. She's not sure if she feels the same about him because of their different social groups, although she has strange dreams of kissing him.
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