Title: Geek Charming
Writer: Elizabeth Hackett & Hilary Galanoy
Director: Jeffrey Hornaday
Production Company: Bad Angels Productions
Year: 2011
Plot: Dylan Schoenfield is a popular diva with dreams of winning Spring Fling Blossom Queen. Josh Rosen is a film geek that is barely a blimp on Dylan’s radar, until the day he asks to make a movie about her life for the film festival. Dylan immediately believes that this film is what will make her Blossom Queen and begins to show Josh her over the top diva attitude. Through the filming of the movie, Dylan and Josh soon become friends. Dylan gives Josh a makeover and helps him ask out his crush. Josh decides that the movie shouldn’t just be about Dylan’s diva-ness and tries to show the true Dylan Schoenfield in his movie.
Review: This movie begins with Josh dumping his lunch tray on Dylan. It is a great start and shows the audience just how much of a diva Dylan really is. Dylan freaks out and yells at Josh and causes a huge scene in the cafeteria. It is this experience that makes Josh consider making a movie about popularity. When he asks Dylan to be in his movie, she immediately takes over and tells Josh everything he needs to do and not do in the making of the movie. Dylan’s diva attitude becomes too much for Josh and he ends up firing her from the movie. It is this action that makes Dylan realize she has been irrational and she decides to meet Josh on his own terms.
Once Dylan calms down and allows Josh to see the real her, the pair become very close friends. This is a great movie about overcoming stereotypes and not allowing the cliques of high school define who you are to become. Tweens will love the over the top actions of Dylan, as well as, the budding friendship between Josh and Dylan. It’s great to see a movie that shows that it is okay to be unpopular or a geek.
Genre: Movie/Contemporary Fiction
Interest Level: everyone
Related Movies: Frenemies; Starstruck; 16 Wishes.
Related Movies: Frenemies; Starstruck; 16 Wishes.
Starring:
Sarah Hyland as Dylan Schoenfield
Matt Prokop as Josh Rosen
Sasha Pieterse as Amy Loubalu
Jordan Nichols as Asher
Vanessa Morgan as Hannah
Lili Simmons as Lola
David Del Rio as Ari
Jimmy Bellinger as Steven
Lilli Birdsell as Sandy
Andrew Airlie as Alan Schoenfield
Kacey Rohl as Caitlin
Andrea Brooks as Nicole Paterson
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