STUDIO SYNOPSIS

"Youth in Revolt" is a coming-of-age comedy that puts a fresh and outrageous stamp on a tale of adolescent obsession and rebellion. Starring Michael Cera (also of the Oscar® winning film, "Juno," and "Superbad") and based on the acclaimed novel by C.D. Payne, "Youth in Revolt" is the story of Nick Twisp – a unique, but affable teen with a taste for the finer things in life like Sinatra and Fellini – who falls hopelessly in love with the beautiful, free-spirited Sheeni Saunders (Portia Doubleday) while on a family vacation. But family, geography and jealous ex-lovers conspire to keep these two apart. With Sheeni’s encouragement, Nick abandons his dull, predictable life and develops a rebellious alter ego: Francois. With his ascot, his moustache and his cigarette, Francois will stop at nothing to be with Sheeni, and leads Nick Twisp on a path of destruction with unpredictable and uproarious consequences.

C.D. Payne’s “Youth In Revolt: The Journals of Nick Twisp,” and its subsequent installments “Revolting Youth: The Further Journals of Nick Twisp,” and “Young and Revolting: The Continental Journals of Nick Twisp” have amassed a devoted, loyal fan base since the first novel’s debut in 1993. Payne’s readers identified with the unique yet relatable coming of age of Nick Twisp.

Among the series’ admirers was Miranda Freiberg, the daughter of a friend and frequent business associate of YOUTH IN REVOLT producer David Permut. Freiberg (who is a co-producer on YOUTH IN REVOLT) praised the novel to Permut, who read and fell in love with the book based on her recommendation. “Fortunately for me, Miranda Freiberg had a summer vacation and this was the book that she wound up reading from her required reading list. I’m the lucky recipient of being able to produce the movie as a result of Miranda.”  Permut embraced the book’s iconic, irreverent main character and the unusual world in which he lived. “Nick is an intellectual and knowledgeable well beyond his years. He’s like an alien on a distant planet populated by with his mother, his father, his stepdad and this eclectic group of people. His quest is to find the key to the door to get out of this environment.”

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