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You have to see the DVD extras to get a glimpse of how this movie, part drama and part documentary, was made. A number of schools were scouted, and when this Indiana high school was chosen, a number of students were interviewed for the featured roles. Once chosen the students and their families and friends were filmed throughout the school year in typical situations. Footage of basketball games or marching band practice are clearly authentic, but some of the teen "scenes" seemed at least partly contrived, or perhaps "recreated". Nevertheless the sum of the whole makes very interesting viewing.
Hannah Bailey is a pretty, smart, unconventional girl. She is not part of the "in crowd" and lives with her grandmother because her mother is manic/depressive and her father works in another state. Hannah doesn't have a positive self-concept even though she is prettier and smarter than most of the high school girls. She wants to escape Indiana and the boring life she sees living there offers. Instead she wants to go to film school in California. She wants to make films that she will will remembered for long after she dies.
Colin Clemens is the son of a former star athlete, and he himself is now the star of the high school basketball team. His dad tells him they can't afford to send him to college without his getting a basketball scholarship. He has dreams of a college career with a "Final Four" appearance, and a pro contract with the Pacers.
Megan Krizmanich is a pretty, smart, and popular girl at school, and in a family with a long history of attending Notre Dame. Part of her drama is to see if she can get in, even though she gets into some trouble at school.
Jake Tusing is your typical geek, slightly shorter than most guys, with somewhat of a monotone delivery and acne. He plays in the band, longs for a girlfriend but has trouble finding a match. But he tries.
At the end of the movie embedded in the credits are short descriptions of what happened after high school to each of the five. Hannah was moving to San Francisco at the end of the movie, hoping to work for a year, establish state residency, then attend film school. But after 8 months she gave that up and moved to New York for film school.
Colin received a scholarship to a smaller Indiana school and is doing well there, academically and athletically.
Megan by her own admission grew up a LOT after high school and is at Notre Dame studying medicine.
Jake is at his second college, still trying to find where he fits in.
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TxMike 11 March 2009
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