Beware the Gonzo
2010
Action / Comedy / Drama / Romance

Beware the Gonzo
2010
Action / Comedy / Drama / Romance
Plot summary
Eddie "Gonzo" Gilman is starting a revolution. When the wild-eyed rebel journalist is ousted from his prep school's newspaper by its über-popular editor, Eddie fronts an underground movement to give a voice to all the misfits, outcasts, and nerds. Soon the power of the press is in Eddie's hands... but will he use it wisely?
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A bit smarter than the usual high school in-crowd vs out-crowd movie.
A Fist of Two Thumbs
Eddie 'Gonzo' Gilman is a come-to-age student, in an upscale high-school of New York city, and he has a column in the student's paper.
He adopted his nickname, from Hunter S. Thompson's alternative journalism ('Gonzo style'), and so he is such a freedom fighter, against the establishment (usually keeping him down): the principal of the school and the elite students, controlling everything.
At the same time, though, all of them (good and bad guys) must keep their scores and discipline with a tight grip, in order to qualify for college.
Gonzo revolts, though, releasing his own paper (The Gonzo Files), in such a conflictive way, challenging everything and everyone at school, for the sake of justice.
In such a crusade, Gonzo also adopts Hunter S. Thompson's symbol: a hand closed in a fist, with two thumbs.
'Beware the Gonzo' is a very complex (and violent) movie, and yet it has the fluency of an absorbing primetime TV-show, thanks to the expertise of its producer, Bryan Goluboff (the same of 'Law and Order: SVU').
The movie doesn't have any moral agenda anyhow, it's just an entertaining movie with a solid story.
It was produced by the organizers of the 'Tribeca Film Festival', also in New York.