Senior year changes everything for two teens in this poignant, funny coming-of-age story that looks at what happens when the image everyone has of us no longer matches who we really are.
Senior year of high school is full of changes.
For Hayley Mills, these changes arenât exactly welcome. All she wants is for everyone to forget about her very public breakdown and remember her as the overachiever she once wasâand who sheâs determined to be again. But itâs difficult to be seen as a go-getter when sheâs forced into TV Production class with all the slackers like Lewis Holbrook.
For Lewis, though, this is going to be his year. After a summer spent binging 80s movies, heâs ready to upgrade from the role of self-described fat, funny sidekick to leading man of his own lifeâincluding getting the girl. The only thing standing in his way is, well, himself.
When the two are partnered up in class, neither is particularly thrilled. But then they start making mini documentaries about their classmatesâ hidden talents, and suddenly Hayley is getting attention for something other than her breakdown, and Lewis isnât just a background character anymore. It seems like theyâre both finally getting what they wantâexcept what happens when who youâve become isnât who you really are?