Name The Movie, Please

[mostlikely2]

• A high-school feminist
• dresses up like a dude to
• prove some kind of second-wave point about
• the sexes.
• Most likely she is a journalist of some stripe.
• She strikes up an accidental bromance with
• a wheelchair-bound kid
• who is not the object of her crush, but
• who eventually almost commits suicide
• from gay panic.
• Something occurs at the seaside,

Comments

[14icedbear]

everything but the wheelchair and the suicide fits with just one of the guys.

[mostlikely2]

I know! But we're watching Just One Of The Guys right now, which is why it came up. I'm like, "Why Isn't That Dude In A Wheelchair?" And Chad's all, "That is not in this movie."

[14icedbear]

there's always imdb keywords. here's "woman dressing as a man": http://imdb.com/keyword/woman-dressed-as-man/

well, i'd be curious to hear what this film turns out to be.

[mostlikely2]

FOUND IT! It goes by many names, fittingly enough:

Willy/Milly
Something Special
I Was A Teenage Boy

The best part is? The lady in it is Pamela Adlon, a longtime favorite of mine. She's the voice of Bobby Hill and she was on Unscripted and she played the wife on Lucky Louie! So totally right on, that she would be a teenage boy inspiring gay panic...

[cygnia]

I wanna say "Pumpkin"...

[mostlikely2]

Different handicap, different decade. Fun guess!

[mostlikely2]

Oh damn, that's right. I used to get her mixed up with Anybody's from West Side Story because I thought they took place in the same time and place when I was little. G2 is the finest film ever made.

[mostlikely2]

That's like ... quintuple trouble.

Mostly I'm just sad about what happened to Maxwell Caulfield's face.

[mostlikely2]

John Glover and I think Patty Duke?

OMG are you magic? That's amazing.

[woozydinki]

I can't believe I've never seen this one!