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Michael Cera's 'Youth in Revolt' has wit, but lacks rebelliousness
Steve Buscemi and Zach Galifianakis are barely utilized, yet we get two Michael Ceras. Cera plays Nick Twisp, a precocious Oakland, Calif., teenager who describes himself as "a voracious reader of classic prose" and refers to his mother's boyfriend (Galifianakis) as her "consort." He's a virgin, an issue, he says, that "can no longer be ignored." On a summer trip to a trailer park in the country with his mother (Jean Smart) and her boyfriend, Nick falls for the beautiful Sheeni Saunders (Portia Doubleday). Though Sheeni has a boyfriend, she entertains Nick as a summer fling. But to keep her as a girlfriend come fall - and hopefully rectify that virgin problem - she tells him he must be "bad"...
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