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  • Director: Kyle Cooper
  • AMG Rating: star
  • Genre: Drama
  • Movie Type: Coming-of-Age, Teen Movie
  • Themes: Fighting the System, Teachers and Students, Kids in Trouble
  • Release Year: 2001
  • Country: US
  • Run Time: 97 minutes
  • MPAA Rating: PG13

Plot

Teen movie icon John Hughes returns to the genre he helped revolutionize as producer of the first screenplay written by his son James Hughes. Maddox (Blake Shields) is an intelligent but moody teenager growing up in a suburb of Chicago. High school student Maddox believes schools aren't designed to educate so much as they're used to control young people and bend them to the will of the state. Maddox wants to throw off the yoke of the school's authority, especially after he hears tales of a student named Stanton who attended the same school years before; Stanton openly defied the school system and was sent to a mental hospital for his troubles. Maddox and his friends try to find out the truth about the legendary Stanton as they plot a large-scale rebellion of their own. New Port South features a cast of young faces, including Brad Eric Johnson, Will Estes, Melissa George, and Gabriel Mann; the film also marks the directorial debut of Kyle Cooper, who previously directed music videos and designed title sequences for a number of major motion pictures. ~ Mark Deming, All Movie Guide

Cast

Raymond J. Barry; Todd Field; Melissa George; Gabriel Mann; Nick Sandow - Armstrong; Will Estes; Blake Shields - Maddox

Credit

Melinda Eshelman - Costume Designer, Kyle Cooper - Director, Lawrence Jordan - Editor, John Hughes - Executive Producer, Maher Ahmad - Production Designer, Juan Ruiz-Anchia - Cinematographer, Billy Higgins - Producer, James Hughes - Screenwriter

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New Port South

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Directed by Kyle Cooper
Produced by John Hughes
Written by James Hughes
Starring Todd Field
Will Estes
Blake Shields
Music by Telefon Tel Aviv
Cinematography Juan Ruiz Anchia
Distributed by Touchstone Pictures
Release date(s) September 7, 2001
Running time 95 min.
Country Flag of the United States
Language English

New Port South is a 2001 drama film. The film is set in the fictional town of New Port, near Chicago. It stars Will Estes, Todd Field, and Blake Shields, was written by James Hughes and directed by Kyle Cooper. The soundtrack is by Telefon Tel Aviv.

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Plot

What if a student did not like the idea of school and authority and they thought it was prison? Will Maddox (Blake Shields) tests this theory and tests the boundaries of authority and his friendships. A few years before, a student, John Stanton (Michael Shannon) was committed to an insane asylum, reasons unknown to most everybody except the principal. One day he escapes, releasing everyone else from the asylums around. Maddox sees this defiance which is the start of his anarchy. Maddox wants to "help him" and understand him more so they start a correspondence and Stanton tells him what to do and how to do them. This is includes the erasing of student grades, posting posters/fliers, locking part of the student body in a room among other things. Maddox gets his friends involved and challenges authority and gets most of the school behind him, including an administrator for a while. He is so consumed with creating chaos and disorder that his friends start to see the destruction, but they have to save themselves, and him before he can take complete control over the school.

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Filming Location

Libertyville High School, Libertyville, Illinois (and the city of Libertyville itself )

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