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Release Date: Apr 11, 2003
Running Time: 101 mins.
Country Of Origin: United States
synopsis
Everyone knows a guy like Ben--the perfect Asian American high school teen. He's an extremely intelligent perfectionist, an overachiever whose tunnel vision will lead to nothing less than graduation at the top of his class and acceptance to the best Ivy league University. Ben lives in an upper-middle class conservative L.A. suburb. As he struggles to achieve social acceptance in high school, we discover his darker side. Along with his two friends Virgil and Virgil's cousin Hal, Ben leads a double life of mischief and petty crimes that alleviate the pressures of perfection and only become worse when he meets up with Daric, the senior valedictorian who is also a time bomb ready to explode. With Daric at the helm, this gang of misfits band together to form a suburban gang who tumble into a downward spiral of excitement, excess and lurking danger.
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Ben Manibag
Virgil Hu
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Daric Loo
Steve Choe
Stephanie
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April 4, 2003
Overachieving California teens start to cheat, steal, sell drugs and worse. Director Justin Lin's striking debut film has a twist: This time the kids are Asian-Americans. But Lin isn't a gimmick baby. He flips stereotypes and finds cultural conflicts festering. Parry Shen shines as Ben, the high school nerd who's into SATs, sports and lusting for Stephanie (Karin Anna Cheung), who itches only for rich-kid Steve (John Cho). It's his friend Daric (Roger Fan) who gets Ben into selling cheat sheets.
Four jaded Asian-American teenagers growing up in bland, seemingly parentless Orange County, Calif., turn to gang activity and violence to spice up their lives, but they end up in over their heads. Story When he's not playing basketball, feeding his fish, working in the mall food court or hanging out with nerdy, hyper-manic Virgil (Jason Tobin), 16-year-old Ben (Parry Shen) is applying to Ivy League universities, studying for exams and memorizing vocabulary words for the academic decathlon. He
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