We all know that one person that seems to have peaked in High School, whenever you run into them there’s a story beginning like ” Back when I was your age…” it can be annoying right? There have been plenty of movies that tell this story, but I’ve yet to witness a movie that focused on that person being looked at as a role model.
Director Jason Orley’s debut film Big Time Adolescence takes this different approach to a coming of age Monroe (Griffin Gluck) becomes best friends with his sister ex-boyfriend Zeke (Pete Davidson) that’s seven years his senior. Under the misguidance of his stoner, B.F.F. Monroe aka Mo navigates the complications of high school.
When Mo’s begged by a high school friend to procure booze for the senior party, reluctant to become the beer guy. Mo’s hands are now tied once the money is in hand. Zeke encourages Mo to rip them off with watered-down booze and overpriced pot pocket. Zeke just saw it as an opportunity to make an extra buck off high schoolers that don’t understand the pricing on weed. Mo now becoming the drug dealer at the party he begins to morph into someone that his not.
Throughout the film, Mo begins to mature and realize that things he idolized in Zeke aren’t as cool. Following his arrest for being the weed guy at parties his time away from Zeke puts him at a crossroads to straighten up or take the same road as his best buddy.
Pete Davison’s portrayal of Zeke was more of an overexaggerated version of himself, someone who was a nonchalant guy who does care enough to try at anything he does. As if Orley never gave him a script to the story but had him react actors/actresses performance in each scene. For example in a scene where he broke up with his girlfriend as she left, he didn’t bother to get up and chase her but instead calming sipped his milk out of a cereal bowl.
Big Time Adolescence isn’t a film that will be life-changing but it illustrates how kids have an instinctive need to follow someone older to learn how to make it through life. If the wrong role model is chosen the behaviors shape after spending adolescence of observing that person could lead to a life of an unmotivated manchild.
Big Time Adolescence is now available to stream on Hulu, check out the trailer below:
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