Underplayed Gems

Remember the Daze (2007)

Remember the Daze poster
Directed by
Jess Bond
Genre
comedy drama, teen film
Country
United States
Runtime
1h 41m
Rated
R
Rating
4.9 of 10 from 68 voters
Elsewhere
IMDb
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How it feels

The film follows a group of teenagers through their last day of high school in suburban America in 1999. It captures their interactions and emotions over a single 24-hour period.

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What happens

Remember the Daze, originally titled The Beautiful Ordinary, is a 2007 drama film released in theaters in April 2008. The film was directed by Jess Manafort. The plot of the movie has been described as "a glimpse into the teenage wasteland of suburbia 1999 that takes place over 24-hours, and the teenagers who make their way through the last day of high school in the last year of the past millennium." The film was selected as one of the eight films competing in the Narrative Competition at the 2007 Los Angeles Film Festival which took place June 21 – July 1. This was the world premiere of the film. In February 2008, the movie's title was changed from The Beautiful Ordinary. It was released in two theaters in LA, one in New York and one in Washington, D.C., on April 11, 2008, and was released on DVD on June 3, 2008. The movie was filmed primarily in Wilmington, North Carolina, during May 2006. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

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