Suburban Girl

Art School Confidential (2006)

Actors: Ethan Suplee (actor), Nick Swardson (actor), Scoot McNairy (actor), Jerry G. Angelo (actor), Adam Scott (actor), Joel David Moore (actor), Michael Lerner (actor), Marshall Bell (actor), Steve Buscemi (actor), Ezra Buzzington (actor), Richard Bakalyan (actor), Jim Broadbent (actor), John Malkovich (actor), Michael Shamus Wiles (actor), Gary C. Warren (actor),

Plot: Jerome, a kid from the suburbs who loves to draw, goes to New York City's Strathmore College for his freshman year as a drawing major. Competition and petty jealousy consume faculty and students, with an end-of-first-semester best-student award held out as a grand plum. Worse, a strangler is on the loose, killing people on or next to campus. The idealistic Jerome falls in love with Audrey, a student who models for life-drawing classes and who responds to his sweetness. But he has a rival: the clean-cut, manly Jonah, also a first-year drawing student, whose primitive work draws raves and Audrey's attention. As cynicism seems to corrode everything, Jerome is desperate to win.

Keywords: aesthetics, aids, arrest, art-class, art-forum-magazine, art-gallery, art-model, art-school, art-show, art-student
Genres: Comedy, Drama,
Taglines: Who said anything about talent?

Quotes:

Nympho: [to Jerome] I just want you to know I *definitely* don't have AIDS. I mean, I've been tested like 40 times so I know for a fact.

Professor Sandiford: Now I don't have any particular wisdom to impart to you people, except to say this, these four words - don't have unrealistic expectations. If you want to make money, better drop out right now, go to banking school, or website school - anywhere but art school. And remember, only 1 out of 100 of you will ever make a living as an artist.

Bardo: I'm a living cliché just like the rest of these guys. I'm the guy who keeps dropping out and changing his major just because he's afraid he really sucks at everything.

Bardo: [holding up clay pipe] This is ready for the kiln.

Young Jerome: [dressed as Pablo Picasso] I am a genius. I am the greatest artist of the twentieth century. I pretty much invented modern art, and I do weird abstract paintings even though I could paint totally realistic if I wanted to. Also, even though I am super short and bald, I am able to have sex with any beautiful woman I want just because I'm so great.

Vince: I've gotta cream soma kinda love story into this thing man. Skanks, make up fifty per cent of the audience

Vince: Man, if she were my girlfriend, I'd be pounding that night and day.

Professor Sandiford: Now, everyone don't be so hard on Jerome. He is attempting to achieve the impossible. He is trying to sing in his own voice using someone else's vocal cords.

Professor Sandiford: Now Eno, why haven't you been doing the assignments?::Eno: Frankly, I find them constricting and largely irrelevant. My work has nothing to with form or light or color, but with questioning the nature of aesthetic experience.::Professor Sandiford: I'll buy that.

Eno: It has the singularity of outsider art,though the conscious rejection of spatial dynamics could only come from an intimacy with the conventions of picture-making.::Jerome: Are you kidding me?