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New Port South (2001)

95 min · Drama, drama film

Popularity3/5
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1.4k02025-09: 643 views2025-10: 919 views2025-11: 1,082 views2025-12: 1,418 views2026-01: 758 views2026-02: 522 views2026-03: 532 views2026-04: 557 views2026-05: 607 views2026-06: 550 views2026-07: 636 views2026-08: 757 views
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2025-09 to 2026-08

Directors

Kyle Cooper

Cast

Blake Shields, Will Estes, Kevin Christy, Melissa George, Brad Eric Johnson, Gabriel Mann, Todd Field, Janelle Snow, Raymond J. Barry, Lawrence MacGowan

The story

Will Maddox has a theory about students not liking the idea of school and authority and thinking that it is a prison. He tests this theory and examines the boundaries of authority and his friendships. A few years before, a student, John Stanton was committed to an insane asylum, for reasons unknown to most everybody except the principal.

Catalogue themes and tags

2001, Elected representative of the pupils of a school, Exchange Student, Fake Friend, Freundeskreis, Friendship, Friendship Bracelet, Graduation, High School Komödie, High school diploma, Insurgence, Jugendfreund, Madhouse, Paternalism, Play Truant, Rebel, Rebel Leader, Rebellion, School Excursion, School Friend, School Grade, School Play, School Presentation, School bus, School reunion, Schoolmate, Schuld und Sühne, Schulmädchen, Schüler - Lehrer Konflikt, Seelenverwandtschaft, Vereinigte Staaten von Amerika, bester Freund, female friendship, highschool, Drama, Coming of age, Teen

Genres

Drama, drama film
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