Find out whats playing at your local movie theatre at canadas longest running online movie. She was revealed as one of the masked contestants during wednesdays airing. The duff doesnt achieve teenmovie greatness, but offers enough of a postmodern twist on the genre to recommend and boasts typically great work from star mae whitman. Get the latest movie times, trailers and celebrity interviews. Wesley robbie amell advises bianca mae whitman on what to wear, but she has a hard time taking it seriously. Find the movies showing at theaters near you and buy movie tickets at fandango. In the simpsons, duff gardens is a theme park run by a beer brewing company, which is pretty fitting for universal given it is a theme park. A high school senior instigates a social pecking order revolution after finding out th. Thorne, whose credits include the duff, netflixs the babysitter and assassination nation, is the latest talent to sign a development deal with fox. Duff, is a movie that is entertaining for older teens such as 17 to adults. Review for the duff in theaters february 20th, 2015. A smart, snappy pygmalion for the millennial age, the duff gives a modernized makeover to a classical scenario involving an outcast who tries fit in with the help of a goodlooking, popular. It does contain some funny moments, but much of the humor is crass and tasteless.
The duff movie photos the duff movie stills the duff. The duff is a high school movie with a message and an entertaining delivery. One list of all cinemas showing the duff get the latest movie times, trailers and celebrity interviews. The duff 2015 bianca is a happy high school senior whose world is shattered when she discovers her peers know her as the duff designated ugly fat friend. Feb 17, 2015 the movies richest and most surprising twist is that the allamerican jock turns out to be simpatico, and not the usual egotistical dunderhead. Overall, the duff is a feelgood, vanilla romcom which is entertaining with some oldschool charm that you can relate to. The film stars mae whitman, robbie amell, bella thorne, nick eversman, skyler samuels, bianca santos, allison janney, and ken jeong. I get it high school kids are dependent on their cell phones and social networks, but this movie goes out of its way to make. The duff movie certainly stands up on its own despite its lack of similarity to the book.
Get your copy of the digital hd and tweet us photos of your duff party. The idea of mae as an ugly girl is laughable, but both the book and the movie do a great job of showing how everyone is a duff. Create your own duff party anytime with the duff on digital hd now. In order to save her senior year from becoming a complete disaster, bianca must find the. United states february 20, 2015 nationwide canada february 20. The duff movie trailer hd mae whitman, bella thorne, robbie amell. The duff is a 2015 american teen comedy film directed by ari sandel and written by josh a. Has its very funny parts usually with the duff s mom saying something just completely out there. It is an adaptation of the 1987 novel of the same name by james ellroy, in turn drawn from the widely sensationalized murder of elizabeth short the film was screened at the 63rd venice. The ending of the duff is the films strongest, most.
Check out this behind the scenes look at bad boys for life. Everything you need to know about the duff movie 2015. The popular girls can be writers and hackers, the football player is kind and sensitive, and the object of a main characters. Adapted from a novel by kody keplinger, whose website says that she wrote the book as a senior in high school, the duff begins, in an apparent nod to the breakfast club, by informing. Also, many times the high school characters are played by actors who are almost 30 years old. The duff has the decency to acknowledge its roots in the great john hughes teen movies of the 1980seven beginning by referencing the five high school types stuck serving saturday detention together in the breakfast club, which recently celebrated its 30th anniversary. As a parent of a young teenager, i do not feel that this movie should be rated pg. The duff 2015 trailers and clips frumpy highschool senior bianca mae whitman has a rude awakening when she learns that her classmates secretly know her as the duff designated ugly fat. When the film was submitted for formal classification, this sequence had been. A high school senior instigates a social pecking order revolution after finding out that she has been labeled the duff designated ugly fat friend by her prettier, more popular counterparts.
This emo teen movie has a refreshingly believable heroine in designated ugly fat friend. It also undermines some typical teenmovie stereotypes. It also undermines some typical teen movie stereotypes. High school senior bianca piper discovers she is the duff designated ugly fat friend of her social group, the one who makes everyone else look better. Duff is an acronym standing for designated fat ugly friend.
The duff is your typical highschool misfit comedy, elevated by a kooky, cranky and deeply sympathetic performance by mae whitman, a face to watch. Bianca is shocked, insulted, and ultimately depressed by her situation. They emulate the high school environment into a microcosm that foreshadows the role of the future generation. This is one film where the journey is more fun than the final outcome.
Once was a free prescreening and the second i paid for but got to see and meet bella thorne and robbie amell in person. Far from the carnival of cruelty implied by its titular acronym, the duff, or designated ugly fat friend, is a generous, uproarious, and crazycharming teen comedy that celebrates the. The principal is alarmed with the use of cellphones and social media to attack students, so he enforces that everyone in the entire schools phones are taken for the whole day and kept locked in his office. To save her senior year from turning into a complete disaster and desperate to reinvent herself, she enlists the help of wesley a charming jock and together they instigate a. Duff brewery limitedservice bar at universal studios florida.
The duff has the decency to acknowledge its roots in the great. The fact that the duff ends on a such a sappy, uninspired note isnt surprising, but it is disappointing given all the little glimmers of promise peppered throughout the films first half. Though the duff is rated pg, the amount of language alone should require an r rating. The duff doesnt achieve teenmovie greatness, but offers enough of a postmodern twist on the genre to recommendand boasts typically great. The title is an acronym for the designated ugly fat friend, whose drivel drives the plot. Has its very funny parts usually with the duffs mom saying something just completely out there. The duff is smart, sassy, and spirited exactly what youd want in a comingofage high school movie as long as youre ok with some crude, racy humortalk. The only flaw in the movie, and a minor flaw at that, is the failure to implement mature authoritative figures within the school. In addition, there is a significant amount of crude lewd. Thorne is fresh off of a turn on foxs the masked singer. But quickly and convincingly, it becomes its own funny and fastpaced phenomenon with its own modernday charm. With mae whitman, bella thorne, robbie amell, allison janney.
Desperate to reinvent herself, bianca enlists the aid of wesley robbie amell, a charming jock. Feb 20, 2015 the duff tries too hard to be cool instead of actually being cool. A smart highschooler gets a rude awakening to the intricacies of the pecking order in a comedy starring mae whitman. Ken jeong as the journalism teacher who was himself a duff in school is hilarious and allison janney is funny and warm as biancas messedup mom. The duff doesnt achieve teen movie greatness, but offers enough of a postmodern twist on the genre to recommend and boasts typically great work from star mae whitman. June 9th, 2015 pg 1 hr 36 min follow the movie on facebook and twitter. Nick eversman at an event for the duff 2015 mae whitman and robbie amell in.
Enter your location to see which movie theaters are playing the duff near you. Movie about girl with pretty friends who tries to find true love and accept herself even as the less pretty friend out of her group. There are times during the duff where you sense some potential. High school senior bianca mae whitman is devastated when she learns she is labeled the duff designated ugly fat friend to her. There were 2 other movies released on the same date, including hot tub time machine 2 and mcfarland, usa. But by the time the third act delivers its predictable finale, seasoned audiences are left to reminisce about the movies that did it. The dc hotel in which the team is ensconced, with its vast atrium and. The duff showtimes movie listings movie times and showtimes. The duff 510 movie clip its go time 2015 hd youtube.
Despite its potentially questionable subject matter the idea that anyone could be called the designated ugly. Frumpy highschool senior bianca mae whitman has a rude awakening when she learns that her classmates secretly know her as the duff designated ugly fat friend to her prettier and more popular pals. Duffs brewery features duffs garden, an openair bar. The duff was released in 2015 on friday, february 20, 2015 in nationwide movie theaters. How the duff used social media, youtube stars to rally teen girls. The worldly perversion is definitely there, but stays within its pg boundaries. Bella thorne in a still from the hollywood movie the duff. The duff m sexual references and coarse language a high school senior instigates a social pecking order revolution after finding out that she has been labeled the duff designated ugly fat friend to her prettier more popular friends. The duff comes across as the typical teenage fare that hollywood has produced for the last two or three decades. The avengers are now fighting another almighty battle, this time in berlin, against. Feb 20, 2015 adapted from a novel by kody keplinger, whose website says that she wrote the book as a senior in high school, the duff begins, in an apparent nod to the breakfast club, by informing. The duff doesnt achieve teenmovie greatness, but offers enough of a postmodern twist on the genre to. High school like comment share high school movies are often cultural distillations of the current generation. Cagan, based on the novel of the same name by kody keplinger with music by dominic lewis and produced by susan cartsonis, mcg and mary viola.
Even if were the most gorgeous person on earth, there are times when we think were ugly and unattractive, and there are always people who are more attractive than we are. In the end, you may walk away from this film valuably inspired. Its not hard to love cbs films new teen comedy the duff. U nlike many other highschool comedies, the duff has a moral that just may be worth all the trashy content. White lines on netflix, a sexy, soapy, spanish drama from the creator of money heist this story has been shared 1,541 times. It is a predictable tale of high school romance between the duff and the schools most soughtafter hunk. Ride along, 2015 highschool comedy the duff and 2018s love, simon.
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