Bad attitude, bad wardrobe, bad study habits. Tim Dunphy (Shawn Hatosy) arrives at snooty Cornwall Academy with all that baggage spilling out of the trash bag he carries in lieu of the suitcase he can't afford.
In his working-class back-story there are drugs, drink and a feckless but funny bunch of buddies. Also a paraplegic brother, a three-legged dog and a widowed father (Alec Baldwin) for whom tough love is a family tradition, not a catch phrase. It is he who has sentenced his son to a last-chance senior year in prep school, which strikes him as a better, if...
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