Dirty Deeds (2005)

Director:

David Kendall

Writers:

Jon Land (written by)
Jonathan Thies (written by)

Release Date:

17 August 2006 (Hungary)

Genre:

Comedy

Tagline:

10 Dares. 12 Hours. One Wild Night.

Plot:

An American Pie-like teen comedy in which a high school senior tries to become the first student in years to complete the Dirty Deeds...

Plot Keywords:

High School | Homecoming | Watching TV | One Legged Man | Parking Lot

Cast

Milo Ventimiglia	...	Zach Harper
Lacey Chabert	...	Meg Cummings
Tom Amandes	...	Vice Principal Lester Fuchs
Matthew Carey	...	Dan Lawton
Mark Derwin	...	Vincent Scarno
Charles Durning	...	Victor Rasdale
Michael Milhoan	...	Officer Dill
Billy L. Sullivan	...	Stash
Zoe Saldana	...	Rachel Buff (as Zoë Saldana)
Arielle Kebbel	...	Alison
Ray Santiago	...	Bobby D
Erin Torpey	...	Jen
Alex Solowitz	...	JD Riplock
Danso Gordon	...	Biggs
Wes Robinson	...	Kyle Cummings

Also Known As:

Dirtier Deeds (USA) (video title)

MPAA:

Rated PG-13 for crude humor, sexual content, language, teen partying/drug references and some violence.

Runtime:

87 min

Country:

USA

Language:

English

Color:

Color

Aspect Ratio:

1.85 : 1

Sound Mix:

Dolby Digital

Certification:

Iceland:16 | Hungary:16 | Australia:M | USA:PG-13

Filming Locations:

Los Angeles, California, USA

Company:

Green Diamond Entertainment

Trivia:

The ten "Dirty Deeds" are as follows: 1. Drink a beer in front of a cop. 2. Punch the toughest kid in town. 3. Masturbate into a loaf of bread in the supermarket bathroom. 4. Move the inflatable leprechaun from the local car lot to the school football field in one piece. 5. Steal a dead body and put it in the middle of the school. 6. Get a signed homecoming queen's bra. 7. Steal the Blank Lodge's night watchman's artificial leg. 8. Steal a car worth over $100,000. 9. Find Duncan Rime. 10. Ruin the homecoming Carnival.

Goofs:

Anachronisms: Although the list of deeds was supposedly created in the early 80s, there are a few deeds that don't seem to make sense to have existed since inception. "Steal a car worth more than $100K" seems unlikely, because the average cost of a new car in the 80's was $7200. It is also unlikely that the car dealership would have the same inflatable leprechaun or the lodge would have the same night watchmen for over 20 years. It was originally thought the list was created in the 70's, however this would put Duncan Rime in his fifties. In the film, he clearly was not that old.

Movie Connections:

References Fight Club (1999)

Smirky deeds

Zach Harper (Milo Ventimiglia) is the school prankster, hip and cool, but also working outside the box. He has a thing for Meg Cummings (Lacey Chabert), similarly as Zach also a senior and overprotective of her little brother Kyle (Wes Robinson). Kyle is the school punch-bag constantly bullied by the highschool jocks led by Dan Lawton (Matthew Carey). School year is coming to a close and that means one thing - the temptation to indulge into the Dirty Deeds, a game with a long history, where the contestant has to do 10 nasty and mostly illegal things to win. Not sure what the reward is, apart from... well... have no idea.

Kyle is intent on getting back at Dan and his jocks, so decide to pick up the gauntlet and enter the Dirty Deeds, something that his sister wants to prevent from happening. This pushes Zach to push Kyle out of the competition - as a senior has precedence.

Milo is a relatively likable actor and really makes you want to root for him. Supporting cast all do a good job. I was basically mildly entertained, even if there was nothing special about the movie. Fortunately the movie moves away from fart jokes (at least most of the time) and really has a couple of successful jokes, that will at least make you smirk. Not "The Girl Next Door" but still not a total waste of time.

An interesting cameo may be that of Zoe Saldana, who has risen to fame in the meantime.