What was that? An afterschool special? This is what happens when a kid with experience writes a movie and somehow, inconceibably, it gets turned into a movie. This film is one cliche after another, where everything of course eventually turns out fine and everyone learns the proper lessons. The lead character, also the writer, is constantly mugging for the camera. A v ery annoying smirkThe music is a drag. A few periphereal characters were interesting, such as the old guy at the bar and the chili dog eater, although the latter is a bit over the top. His mother is an atrocious actress. Coudln't even hack it in a soap. Oh, and people just don't up and give away their boat/home. Ridiculous. It's all just so pretentious nonsense. It's sappy, mundane, trivial, and a very by the numbers effort. Somehow I made it to the predictable end. And where the heck did these people have tne money to live as they did? Total disconnect. An overflowing pail of slop nothing more.

(2012) Born & Raised DRAMA

Straight-to-DVD which if you take out some of the cussing, then it would've been nothing more than a made for TV movie. Kind of a simple minded story line that's written by the lead actor himself by the name of Nick Loritsch. He plays Bubbs, who's employed as a boat mechanic of a small town. And just when he's starting to be comfortable with the small town he grew up in, his long time girlfriend breaks up with him so that she can live with a guy some place else. Because Bubbs doesn't have his own place, he also lives with his single parent mom who scolds him constantly whenever she thinks he's hanging around with his estranged dad who used to abandoned Bubb's mom when she was little. His name is Frank, played by Jackson Pyle and all he does is drink beer, pissing people off while hanging around on his boat. It then shifts to a rift between Bubbs and his best friend, Kenny (Keith Hudson), since he's starting to fall in love with his little sister. All I can say is that it's very routine stuff that's been done better, such as "The Last Picture Show", another movie about a small town. What doesn't seem to be addressed here is whether or not Bubbs pays any rent at all, since his mom is also employed as well. We also don't get to see how Bubbs is doing financially, for the movie gives viewers the impression that Bubbs spends much of his money drinking in bars and so forth. I mean, sometimes even if he's paying his mom rent, he should also be saving a lot of money too, since parents usually help their children.