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Ever wish that you could go back and start all over again? That you could change some part of your life, or something that you have done and take on a whole new identity? Well that's exactly what happens to nerdy high school senior Dizzy Harrison (played by Road Trip's DJ Qualls) in Columbia Pictures' The New Guy! It's a hilarious story about wiping the slate clean and reinventing yourself!
After a wholly humiliating experience, Dizzy's popularity seems hopeless. And to make matters worse, when an incompetent guidance counselor overmedicates him for misdiagnosed Tourette's syndrome, he is tossed into jail for getting into a fistfight with a group of...nuns? Yup! While in jail, he meets inmate Luther (played by Eddie Griffin) who gives him some of the best advice of his life. With the help of his new prison know-how, Dizzy suddenly becomes the most respected and feared student at his high school. He takes on the alter-ego of the cool "Gil Harris" and sets out to not only moost school morale and win the heart of his crush Danielle (played by Eliza Dushku), but to destroy the popularity-obsessed social system that had kept him in the shadows for so long. Directed by There's Something About Mary's co-write Ed Decter, The New Guy is a new film that you just have to see to appreciate!
Reprinted from Ignite - July 2001