Remember the Daze (The Beautiful Ordinary) (2007)
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The feature debut from writer/director Jess Manafort, this bittersweet teen comedy centers on a group of kids on the last day of school in 1999. With an ensemble cast featuring Lyndsy Fonseca, Amber Heard, and Alexa Vega, the film follows several students as they relish the advent of summer vacation… More The feature debut from writer/director Jess Manafort, this bittersweet teen comedy centers on a group of kids on the last day of school in 1999. With an ensemble cast featuring Lyndsy Fonseca, Amber Heard, and Alexa Vega, the film follows several students as they relish the advent of summer vacation and struggle with drugs, sex, and the unpredictability of the future before them. The Beautiful Ordinary screened at the 2007 Los Angeles Film Festival. ~ Matthew Tobey, Rovi
- Directed By
- Jess Manafort
- Written By
- Jess Manafort
- Genres
- Drama, Art House & International, Comedy
- In Theaters
- Apr 11, 2008 Wide
- Studio
- First Look
Critic Reviews
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Kyle Smith, New York Post
This movie isn't even sophomoric; it's freshmanic.
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Elizabeth Weitzman, New York Daily News
[Director Jess] Manafort aims for Dazed and Confused, but falls well short of Can't Hardly Wait.
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Laura Kern, New York Times
Ultimately, the ensemble of more than 20 featured characters seems as vapid as the intentionally caricatured adults who pop up on occasion. Where are this decade's John Hugheses? Or even the Cameron Crowes?
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Drew Toal, Time Out New York
This dreck can't even hold a candle to Can't Hardly Wait and prompts the question: Where's this generation's Lloyd Dobler?
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Chad Greene, Boxoffice Magazine
Mostly, though, Remember the Daze is a set of largely plotless scenes showing teens trying to score either sex or drugs, with no particularly profound point to any of it.
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Cast
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Amber Heard
as Julia
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Alexa Vega
as Holly
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Leighton Meester
as Tori
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Melonie Diaz
as Brianne
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Lyndsy Fonseca
as Dawn
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Wesley Jonathan
as Biz
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Shahine Ezell
as Eddie
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Max Hoffman
as Zack
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Christopher George Marquette
as Felix
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Brie Larson
as Angie
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Charles Chen
as Thomas
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Katrina Begin
as Sylvia
- Moira Kelly
- Marnette Patterson
- John Robinson (IX)
- Michael Welch
- Khleo Thomas
- Douglas Smith
- Sean Patterson
- Sean Marquette
- Stella Maeve
- Aaron Himelstein
- Christopher Shand
- Belinda Keller
- Josh Waters
- Jess Heard





