National Lampoon Barely Legal Synopsis
As Deacon (ERIK VON DETTEN) tells it, it all began on his sixteenth birthday in high school in Cleveland, Ohio.
Like teenage boys everywhere, Deacon suffers the tribulations and humiliations of adolescence - a time when a
young man's entire existence is trapped in the relentless grip of hormones he can't control. For Deacon, his sixteenth
birthday packs a double whammy: First, he hears from a couple of guys in health class that his sometime girlfriend
Rachel (CAMERON RICHARDSON) has gone and had sex with some other guy. This hurts, especially since not
long ago Deacon had the opportunity to sleep with Rachel, but for whatever reason couldn't bring himself to do the
deed.

Then Deacon gets fired from his job at the local video store after his boss catches him with a porno video.
This hurts too, especially in the wallet, as Deacon and his two best friends earned their spending cash by illegally
pirating the store's sex tapes and selling them to other guys at school. But at least it's the end of the school year,
and Deacon and his buddies can now look forward to the special status they'll enjoy as high school seniors - that
is, they could if they weren't such geeks. Deacon's one buddy, Fred (TONY DENMAN), is a compulsive masturbator
(if he spent half as much time studying, he'd be an A student) who dreams of being a hotshot like Tony Montana in
the movie Scarface. His other friend, Matt (DANIEL FARBER), is the guy no one wants on their basketball team.


Matt videotapes just about everything he sees, but forgets to turn the camera on when he gets a sneak peek inside
the girls' locker room. Although Deacon sends out several hundred invitations to his birthday party, no one comes.
That's because everyone who is anyone is at another party. Deacon gets up his courage to go to there and has the
brief, but nevertheless exquisite, pleasure of having a chat with Naomi (AMY SMART), the most unapproachably
beautiful girl at school. Then someone tells Deacon that the real action is out in the swimming pool where everyone
is skinny dipping. Deacon strips and jumps into the dark pool. The pool lights go on and everyone laughs at Deacon
he's the only one naked. Deacon is too humiliated to climb out until everyone has left. Summer comes and drags along.

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