A seemingly bright and mostly innocent 16-year-old named Mo attempts to navigate high school under the guidance of his best friend Zeke, an unmotivated-yet-charismatic college dropout. Although Zeke genuinely cares about Mo, things start to go awry as he teaches Mo nontraditional life lessons in drug dealing, partying, and dating. Meanwhile, Mo’s well-meaning dad tries to step in and take back the reins of his son’s upbringing.
Acting
Pete Davidson's terrifying authenticity as a human red flag.
Writing
Dialogue that captures how cool people actually sound stupid.
Direction
Jason Orley makes suburban mediocrity feel like slow suffocation.
Director
Jason Orley
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
Jason Orley based Zeke on real friends from his Chicago suburbs, which explains why everything hurts so specifically. This was his directorial debut.
Released in 2020, this basically predicted the Pete Davidson cultural moment before Bodies Bodies Bodies made it official. The casting is almost too on-the-nose.
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