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Overview

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6.7/10   1,310 votes
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Writer:
Tod Williams (written by)
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Plot:
In June, 1983, in Dutchess County, New York, Sebastian Cole joins his mother, step-father, and sister for dinner... more | add synopsis
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4 nominations more
User Comments:
The Story of a Rebel Teenager With an Original Screenplay more (21 total)

Cast

  (Cast overview, first billed only)

Adrian Grenier ... Sebastian Cole

Clark Gregg ... Hank / Henrietta Rossi

Aleksa Palladino ... Mary
Margaret Colin ... Joan Cole

John Shea ... Hartley

Marni Lustig ... Jessica Cole
Joan Copeland ... Grandmother
Tom Lacy ... Grandfather

Gabriel Macht ... Troy
Herbert Russell ... Wayne (as Russel Harper)
Greg Haberny ... Jimmy Bogardus
Peter McRobbie ... Principal
Merritt Wever ... Susan
Marisol Padilla Sánchez ... Woman In Desert

Rory Cochrane ... Chinatown
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Rated R for language and crude sexual references, and for some substance abuse.
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99 min
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1.85 : 1 more
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Continuity: When Sebastian is running to catch the school bus his blue scarf is on again, off again through the entire scene after he misses the bus. more
Quotes:
Wayne: Why do you want to get out early anyway? What are you going to do with yourself?
Sebastian Cole: Well, get a haircut, pay taxes, die.
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Movie Connections:
Spoofs The Karate Kid (1984) more
Soundtrack:
Banana in My Cabana (I Wanna Put My) more

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The Story of a Rebel Teenager With an Original Screenplay, 13 November 2003
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Author: Claudio Carvalho from Rio de Janeiro, Brazil

Sebastian Cole (Adrian Grenier) is a teenager of seventeen years old, living in a small town with his mother Joan Cole (Margaret Colin), his stepfather Hank (Clark Gregg) and his sister Jessica (Marni Lustig). His father Hartley (John Shea) is an architect and his grandparents are persons very traditional, conservatives and arrogant. One day, his stepfather gathers the family and informs that he will make an operation for changing his sex. This communication is enough to leave the members of the family astonished and break the structure of the family. Jessica decides to leave home immediately with her boyfriend. Joan decides to move to England with Sebastian. A few months later, Sebastian decides to come back to USA and to live with his stepfather, now called Henriette. He joins the high school and becomes a very rebel teenager, certainly affected by the whole situation, shocking the elders in most of his attitudes. This low budget and independent movie has a very original screenplay. The excellent cast and direction are sharp. The story is not indicated for all audiences, but the viewer who appreciates a different story will have the chance to watch a good movie. My vote is seven.

Title (Brazil): "Febre de Viver" ("Fever of Living"

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