The New Guy

The New Guy is a 2002 American teen comedy film directed by Ed Decter. The film tells the story of high school loser Dizzy Gillespie Harrison. Dizzy is an unpopular, high school band geek going through a hellish senior year.

The film begins with prison inmate Luther speaking directly to the camera to an unseen individual, telling the story of Dizzy Gillespie Harrison, an 18yearold nerdy high school senior. Dizzy is friends with Nora, Kirk, and Glen, who together started a funk rock band and are addicted to video games. They attend Rocky Creek High School, where Dizzy is picked on by basically everyone, especially star football player Barclay. This occurs before and after sex symbol Tina Osgood holds his hands, causing him to have an erection and ends up activating the trap where the jocks belittle him with no mercy. Dizzys white briefs were yanked from underneath his pants and placed around his head revealing the erect penis in plain sight to nearly everyone instead of covering it. The school librarian would eventually break it after Dizzy refuses to hand over the weapon to her. Dizzy is misdiagnosed with Tourettes syndrome he is then placed on medication by the school counselor who advises his father to spend every moment possible with him. While at the malls food court, the heavily medicated Dizzy makes a fool of himself at a church revival and gets arrested.In jail, Dizzy meets Luther, who turns out to be a sympathetic exvictim who makes it his goal to teach him how to be cool. In an attempt to wipe the slate clean, Dizzy gets himself expelled from his old high school, then undergoes a makeover with the help of the prison inmates and guards. Changing his name to Gil Harris, he enrolls at East Highland High and makes an impression by being dropped off in a prison van in restraints a reference to Con Air and beating up the school bully, Connor. ........

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