It does a good job of doing what coming-of-age stories are meant to do. I like that even though Stanley isn't the main character, the movie kind of revolves around him, in a sense. I thought it was an emotional movie, tackling the irrational fear of homosexuality, the importance of teachers, and of course, kids growing up. I didn't find it overly funny so it's more of a drama to me than a comedy. I guess since it's classified as a comedy, that's a bit of a fail, but fuck it.

The children of a society are a corpus delicti: its salvific or most damning condemnation. And Ed Harris as the reptilian avatar of Jebus...that's what he is.

this movie would have been better, no way it's based on true events, why does every drama movie these days have to have a sexual side to it? can't we make one like the outsiders - looking 4 Kitty is not old! for sure parents can't ignore a teacher being gay anything else can be neglected but that the problem is the movie explains even Andrew didn't care much at the end when he went to the teacher's house.this is a very stupid idea that the movie shows.

Way too cheesy, right on and neat for my tastes but still, it got me thinking about my childhood. It's kind of sweet.