Gretchen has bigger problems than abysmal fashion sense: She's 17, painfully awkward and stuck in the most unforgiving place on earth - high school. When her obsession with school bad boy Ricky gets out of hand, her mother sends her to an emotional treatment center to recover. She has to travel elsewhere, however, to truly begin to understand why she fixates on the wrong kind of guy.
Acting
Courtney Davis commits to Gretchen's delusion with zero vanity.
Direction
Steve Collins finds poetry in suburban suffocation.
Costume
Gretchen's outfits are a character—aggressively wrong in every scene.
Director
Steve Collins
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
Steve Collins expanded this from his SXSW-winning short, keeping the same deadpan misery.
Macon Blair later became an indie horror darling; this is his awkward origin story.
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