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Kelly Ernswiler, a young war reenactment enthusiast, works at his local store with love interest Sarah and Bart Bowland. Kelly's father, Abe, works with drug addicts, being clean himself for over 5 years. His mother, Eve, is a commercial artist. Kelly attempts to woo Bart's older sister, Tabby, even though she's set to get married to Miner Weber, a handsome businessman. Kelly becomes a regular at Bart's house, being over for dinner often, and he impresses Bart's father, Harrison, with their common fondness for war memorabilia, and Bart's mother by complimenting her on her flowers, and he often talks to Tabby in her workshop. During this time, Sarah asks him to go to an Aerosmith concert, which she has a spare ticket for, telling him it would be good for him to get out more. When he bluntly makes it clear that he knows it would be a date, he tells her he is seeing someone else, obviously meaning Tabby. Before Kelly and Bart perform their plan for Lance's humiliation, Bart makes it clear to Kelly that he knows he has "his own agenda", at which Kelly is insulted and angry, and Bart displaces it as "pre-mission nervous energy". They recreate an invasion on the street where Lance lives and drag him out of the house pointing guns at him and shouting at him with German accents. They videotape the whole thing and he urinates out of fear. Afterwards, the boys are drinking whiskey at Bart's house and Bart passes out in a chair by the fire. Kelly makes to go home and goes to the workshop to say goodbye to Tabby. He walks in on her crying, as she now thinks the marriage will be off and goes to comfort her, and they kiss. As Kelly is leaving, Bart sees him and is furious as he knew he was in the workshop. The next day, as Kelly is on a set for a war program that Bart got them in, Bart hasn't turned up. Kelly is cast in a role to be a jeep driver and when his cue is called, Bart turns up out of the bushes and confronts him about Tabby. Kelly denies it at first and then becomes speechless. As he is about to drive for his cue, Bart attacks him in the jeep and they make a mess of the set. The next day, Abe is taken into care again for relapsing and Kelly is emotionless. He goes to the wedding the same day, only to have an annoyed Bart tell him that he can't let him in. He sneaks into Tabby's limo before it pulls in and he talks to her, and it is a moment in which he finally realizes he must grow up. He gets out of the car and everyone at the wedding sees him and are all confused. He goes round the back of the church to get his bike and leave and meets Minor again, who has no idea of what happened with Kelly and Tabby, and is civil towards him. Kelly cycles to the clinic where his father is staying and is surprised. They begin to watch television and his mother walks in and is surprised and happy to see Kelly. In the end, it shows the voicemail message where Kelly apologizes to the Bowlands for his behavior and asks Bart if he will meet him where he will be selling all his old memorabilia, and gives a hat Bart acquired for him back. He is shown walking down the street with Sarah and they hold hands. Kelly sees Lance again on his lawn where they faked the invasion, and goes over to him and confesses, only to be punched in the jaw. The film ends with Kelly lying on the lawn, holding his bruised jaw saying, "I deserved it".Read full review
I tried to get hold on a copy of this movie for a long time. It was an amazing coincidence and a great bargain that I found it. Before I actually thought that this movie is kinda another action flick ala Transformers...but I got pleasantly surprised. This movie is a sentimental but not to whiny independent drama, with an incredible cast. Billy Kay ( L.I.E. ) was awesome, as well as Shia Labeouf! After that long period of wait to get hold of this movie, I am very pleased with it.
I bought the Battle of Shaker Heights DVD, because of the fact that Shia LaBeouf is in the film. I've always tought he was a funny and natural talent, so now I scour the eBay site in search of his lesser known movies. So yeah, I look forward to watching this movie Friday night, forcing my Dad and sister to go through "another Shia LaBeouf movie?!". But I'm not worried, because Shia typically picks awesome movies to star in, and I've heard good reviews, so I expect nothing less than greatness form this film
I decided to buy this movie because it was not available at any video store in my area. I am collecting all of the films that star Shia LaBeouf, and this one was very hard to find. It was a pretty good movie, enjoyable for my whole family and contained very little (if any) inappropriate material. The acting was superb for such a small indie flick. I am very glad that I purchased it, and it made a fine addition to my film collection!
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