Youth in Revolt is the 2010 American feature film adaptation of C.D. Payne's epistolary novel of the same name. The film premiered at the 2009 Toronto International Film Festival on September 15, 2009. A wide release is set for January 8, 2010. The film is rated R for sexual content, language, and drug use.
Nick Twisp (Michael Cera) is a cynical sex-obsessed 16-year-old who, while on vacation in a trailer park, meets Sheeni Saunders (Portia Doubl...
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Youth in Revolt is the 2010 American feature film adaptation of C.D. Payne's epistolary novel of the same name. The film premiered at the 2009 Toronto International Film Festival on September 15, 2009. A wide release is set for January 8, 2010. The film is rated R for sexual content, language, and drug use.
Nick Twisp (Michael Cera) is a cynical sex-obsessed 16-year-old who, while on vacation in a trailer park, meets Sheeni Saunders (Portia Doubleday), an intellectual. The only things really standing in his way are Sheeni's poetry-writing ex-boyfriend Trent (Jonathan B. Wright), Nick's temperamental divorced parents (Steve Buscemi and Jean Smart), and Nick's mom's boyfriends (Zach Galifianakis and Ray Liotta). When Nick realizes she is not interested, he comes up with an alter-ego, named Francois, who resembles Nick, but has blue eyes, a mustache, a deeper voice, and a player/bad boy attitude to help him with his pursuit of Sheeni. But when Francois ends up making Nick a wanted...
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