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Great Movie to encourage teenage drinking!


Now every kid in highschool is going to think drinking gets you girls and good time! Real nice!


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Was thinking the same thing. Especially all the drinking and driving

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Did we not see the same movie? Yes it kind of made it seem normal but he did wreck kind of a few times and also almost kill jobs girlfriend, which to me showed what your drinking can do. Maybe if they would've left some of the deleted scenes in would've spoke better because he got confronted and everything in those.

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Which is why the movie is rated 'Rated R for alcohol use, language and some sexuality - all involving teens'. It's the parents' job to watch the movie and determine if their children are mature enough not to follow the movie character's lead.

Also, it's a sad fact that some teenagers act this way.

Lastly, a teenager has to prove they are at least eighteen to get in the movies (when it was out), and to have a credit card/ID to rent it. And if they are watching it on Netflix, their parents should child-lock the account if they don't want them to watch it.

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I don't think teens need any encouragement to drink. And I don't think they're lining up to be the tormented soul that Sutter is.

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The film expressed some of the realism happening in schools. Let's not act like teenagers don't already drink and smoke. And by the end of the film, we witness the turnaround of the main character, who learns from his careless, reckless, in-the-now behavior.

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I wish this was the case. Too many from my high school are still out drinking their lives away and some have lost their lives due to moving on to things like heroin. I appreciated the drinking in this movie, because it addresses a real problem that is hardly ever talked about.

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The film doesn't glorify drinking, that's for sure. If you believe it is, you gotta see the movie again. And no, films aren't advice columns, anyone watching this or any other film should be smart enough to understand that.

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