Sex Drive (2008)

User Rating:

6.9/10   

Director:

Sean Anders

Writers (WGA):

Sean Anders (screenplay) &
John Morris (screenplay) ...

Release Date:

17 October 2008 (USA)

Genre:

Adventure | Comedy | Romance

Tagline:

He's leaving virgin territory

Plot:

A high school senior drives cross-country with his best friends to hook up with a babe he met online.

Plot Keywords:

Friend | High School | Amish | Sex | Friendship

Cast

Josh Zuckerman	...	Ian
Amanda Crew	...	Felicia
Clark Duke	...	Lance
James Marsden	...	Rex
Seth Green	...	Ezekiel
Alice Greczyn	...	Mary
Katrina Bowden	...	Ms. Tasty
Charlie McDermott	...	Andy (as Charles McDermott)
Mark L. Young	...	Randy
Cole Petersen	...	Dylan
Dave Sheridan	...	Bobby Jo
Michael Cudlitz	...	Rick
Allison Weissman	...	Becca
Andrea Anders	...	Brandy
Kim Ostrenko	...	Ian's Stepmom

Also Known As:

Sexdrive (USA) (promotional title)
Untitled Teen Road Movie (USA) (working title)

MPAA:

Rated R for strong crude and sexual content, nudity, language, some drug and alcohol use - all involving teens.

Runtime:

109 min | 129 min (unrated version)

Country:

USA

Language:

English

Colour:

Colour

Aspect Ratio:

1.85 : 1

Sound Mix:

Dolby Digital | DTS

Certification:

USA:R (certificate #44556) | Australia:MA | UK:15 | Ireland:16 | Finland:K-13 | Netherlands:12 | Sweden:11 | Philippines:R-13 (MTRCB) | Singapore:M18 (cut) | New Zealand:R16 | Hong Kong:IIB | Argentina:13 | Germany:12 | Norway:11 | Chile:14 | Mexico:B15 | Iceland:12 | South Korea:18 | Italy:T

Filming Locations:

Belle Glade, Florida, USA

Company:

Summit Entertainment

Trivia:

Both Seth Green (Ezekiel) and Katrina Bowden (Ms. Tasty) have appeared in Fall Out Boy music videos before this film. Seth Green is in the funeral scene of in "It Ain't a Scene, It's an Arms Race" and Katrina Bowden was the mean girl dancing with Patrick Stump in "Dance Dance".

Goofs:

Revealing mistakes: In the scene after Lance's party, Miss Tasty asks Ian over the Internet about his football practice. Ian answers with "Awesome.", but when he presses enter, it appears without the punctuation mark.

Quotes:

Jogger: Hey, Knievel, what say you get your bike out of the fricking road?

Movie Connections:

References Juno (2007)

Soundtrack:

Life is Beautiful

Funny but PLEASE can we move on....

Don't get me wrong Sex Drive is crude, rude, smart, and funny.

My problem is this: I have seen it too many times now - really.

If this film had come out 10 years ago it would have been great but not it suffers from severe retread. Teen movies are starting to suffer from the same problem that John Hughes had in the 1980s - been there, done that.

We watched Nick and Nora's Infinite Playlist the other night and then this and they are a universe apart. The first is a real film, with originality and laughs, and the second gets its laughs by pushing the buttons.

As I said this is funny, you will laugh, but boy, this kind of film is starting to get old...