Berke's best friends, Felix (COLIN HANKS) and Dennis (SISQÓ), decide he needs to get over Allison and get on with his life, as do his parents Beverly (SWOOSIE KURTZ) and Frank (ED BEGLEY, JR.) who host a relationship TV talk show. Yet, Berke has decided he's not going to give up so easily and hopes to win Allison back.
He gets his chance when he learns that she and Striker are going to try out for the school's spring play, "A Midsummer Night's Rockin' Eve," a musical adaptation of one of Shakespeare's plays staged by Dr. Desmond Forrest-Oates (MARTIN SHORT), the school's pretentious and occasionally condescending drama teacher. Although he's not much of an actor or singer, Berke tries out for the play, receiving some coaching from Felix's sister, Kelly (KIRSTEN DUNST), an aspiring singer/songwriter who's also hoping to nab a part in the musical.
As Kelly helps Berke, and his friends try anything to get him over Allison, the student tries to juggle the demands of the play, being on the basketball team, and starting to fall for Kelly, all while dealing with Striker who obviously has it out for him.
Profanity consists of various expletives (including at least 16 "s" words), while numerous colorful phrases are also uttered and a few songs have non-explicit, sexually related lyrics. Various high school students (and others) drink in several scenes, with the protagonist being drunk in one and another miscellaneous character vomiting into a punch bowl. Some other crude humor consists of a character nearly falling face first into a fresh pile of horse manure and then being urinated upon by that horse.
Violence - mostly played for laughs - consists of a person being shot in the arm with a crossbow, a small explosion that knocks someone off a stage, some punching and other hitting, and various instances of people accidentally being hurt (including a dune buggy hitting a young woman and flipping her through the air). Various characters have varying degrees of bad attitudes and some very brief smoking also occurs.
If you're still concerned about the film and its appropriateness for anyone in your home, you may want to take a closer look at our detailed content listings for more specific examples of what occurs and is present in the film.
For those concerned with the repetitive flashing of bright lights, some full strobe-like moments of that occur in a club scene set early in the film.
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(2001) (Ben Foster, Kirsten Dunst) (PG-13)
Alcohol/
DrugsBlood/Gore
Disrespectful/
Bad AttitudeFrightening/
Tense ScenesGuns/
Weapons
Moderate
Moderate
Heavy
None
Moderate
Imitative
BehaviorJump
ScenesMusic
(Scary/Tense)Music
(Inappropriate)Profanity
Mild
None
Minor
Mild
Moderate
Sex/
NuditySmoking
Tense Family
ScenesTopics To
Talk AboutViolence
Heavy
Minor
None
Mild
Moderate
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Reviewed March 9, 2001 / Posted March 10, 2001
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