A boy from Pawtucket, Rhode Island, caught up in the drug scene of the mid-70s, gets in trouble one too many times with the law. To stave off a jail term, his father arranges for him to be placed into a prep school in Cornwall, Connecticut. The terms: Graduate, or else. Summary written by Matt Cotnoir {theman@ids.net} Set in 1974 Pawtucket, Connecticut, Tim Dunphy is a teenage slacker and stoner who is part of a dysfunctional lower-class family which includes his widowed, ill-tempered, bigoted father, his wheelchair-bound younger brother Jackie and their one-eyed, three-legged dog. After Tim and his stoner friends get into trouble one-too many times with the law, his father sends him off to Cornhill Academy, a prep school in Providence, Rhode Island for his senior year where Tim meets new friends and gets a new view on life and his own existence.

release year: 1999

star(s): Alec Baldwin    Amy Smart