The New Guy (2002) 7/10

Starring : DJ Qualls, Eliza Dushku, Zooey Deschanel, Jerod Mixon, Parry Shen, Lyle Lovett, Eddie Griffin, Sunny Mabrey
Director : Ed Dector
Running Time : 91 mins

Dizzy Harrison (Qualls) is an unpopular geeks at his current high school, so he gets himself expelled and transferred to a new school where, under the trained eye of habitual criminal Luther (Griffin), he takes on the guise of Gil Harris, and soon becomes one of the most popular students at school. But when he starts getting close with head cheerleader Danielle (Dushku), her ex-boyfriend starts digging into Gil Harris’s past and discovers his deep dark secret.

Not an intelligent movie by any standard, but very watchable and fairly entertaining. This is the sort of movie you might watch on a Sunday night when you just can’t be bothered to go to bed yet.

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