A teenager with a talent for horror movie make-up and effects dreams of escaping the small Southern town he lives in and his troubled homelife and making it to Hollywood, in this semi-autobiographical coming of age tale from writer/director Robert Hall. Bret Harrison, Laura Prepon, Ashley Lawrence star. 97 min.

Madcap campus comedy in which longtime college con men Devon Sawa, Jason Segal and Michael Maronna concoct a cheating plan a few months before graduation. When campus creep Jason Schwartzman discovers the scheme, he threatens to turn in the trio unless they hook him up with James King, Sawa's pretty classmate. Also stars Laura Prepon, Cameron Diaz and Gina Gershon in cameos, and '50s screen sexpot Mamie Van Doren. 86 min.