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Youth in Revolt is a 2009 American romantic comedy-drama film directed by Miguel Arteta and written by Gustin Nash. Based on C.D. Payne's epistolary novel of the same name, the film stars Michael Cera and Portia Doubleday, with Jean Smart, Justin Long, Ray Liotta, and Steve Buscemi in supporting roles.
Nick Twisp, a 16-year-old virgin, falls in love with Sheeni, a religious girl, and creates an alter ego to win her over. IMDb provides cast and crew information, user and critic reviews, trivia, goofs, quotes, and more for this 2009 R-rated movie.
- Miguel Arteta
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Youth in Revolt (2009) cast and crew credits, including actors, actresses, directors, writers and more.
Jan 8, 2010 · As a fan of Albert Camus and Jean-Luc Godard, teenage Nick Twisp (Michael Cera) is definitely out of his element when his mother and her boyfriend move the family to a trailer...
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- Miguel Arteta
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- Michael Cera
Jan 6, 2010 · "Youth in Revolt" gives Cera the twee name Nick Twisp, surrounds his aging virgin act with divorced parents who are both shacked up with lustful vulgarians and then provides him with a dream come true in the person of Sheeni Saunders.
Youth in Revolt: The Journals of Nick Twisp is a 1993 epistolary novel by C. D. Payne. The story is told in a picaresque fashion and makes heavy use of dark humor and camp. The book contains parts one through three of an eleven-part series (the three sequential parts were published as three separate books).
At 16, Nick Twisp is wry about his teen funk: he lives in Oakland with his sex-addled mother; his father's child support is her meal ticket. While camping in Ukiah, Nick meets Sheeni: for him, it's love at first sight.
