Bovie Movie

The Hazing is the 1978 edition of 1951’s For Men Only, that pioneering expose of injurious fraternity-house traditions. This time, a hazing goes tragically awry, and a frat pledge is killed. The students conspire to hush up the event, but the truth will come out. Though Jeff East is top-billed in The Hazing, the film is stolen by the polished performance of Charles Martin Smith. The film, which represented the directorial debut of Douglas Curtis, was co-written by comic actor David Ketchum.

Former Prada model and Road Trip co-star D.J. Qualls makes a bid for leading man status in this nerd-makeover comedy. Qualls stars as Dizzy, a dorky but delinquent high school student who’s determined to get expelled from his hellish high school — but ends up landing in jail instead. There he meets the intimidating, street-smart Luther (Eddie Griffin), himself a former geek, who takes Dizzy under his wing to teach him the art of being cool. Soon Luther and his pals have broken Dizzy of his meek, maladroit ways, and Dizzy is ready to start a new life at a new high school under a new name: Gil Harris. When Gil arrives at East Highland High — his former inmate reputation known to all — he quickly ingratiates himself with the cool kids and lays to waste any jocks who stand in his way. He even manages to date the school’s most coveted girl, Danielle (Eliza Dushku). But when a face from his past shows up, it seems that his facade as the big man on campus may be about to crumble. The New Guy also stars Zooey Deschanel and Lyle Lovett, and features cameos from rockers Henry Rollins, Gene Simmons, and Tommy Lee.