A picture is worth a thousand meaningless conversations. Amber Heard as: Julia Additional Cast: Alexa Vega, Melonie Diaz Production Status: Completed Release Date: April 11, 2008 (USA, limited) Directed By: Jess Manafort Screenwriters: Jess Manafort Genre: Comedy, Drama MPAA Rating: N/a This take on teenage suburbia in the age of the cell phone and the belly ring revels in the bright, gleaming surfaces of its middle-class milieu, all the better to draw out the shadows of its tree-lined streets. It's the last day of school in the year 1999, and kids just want to have fun. That, at least, is the plan.

Filming Locations:
- Wilmington, North Carolina, USA

Previously titled The Beautiful Ordinary

Julia: "Why are you always taking so many stupid ass pictures, What is so fucking great about all this, huh, what?!"

Tori: "It's like supposed to be the start of the next big something, but I have no clue what I should do with myself."
Sylvia: "Maybe the Y2K will blow up the world."

Mr. Shapiro: "Today is the beginning of the end and the end of the beginning"

Teacher: "Childhood is about magic, but teen is about mystery."

Bailey: "I mean it's always the same thing. You drink, you stand around with the same people, you do the same crap, then you go home and you sleep... all the meaningless conversation."

Tori: "I'm scared to leave home."
Sylvia: "There's no such thing as home. It's all just an idea, I promise."

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It’s no easy task to wrangle an ensemble of this size, and even though numerous characters seem interchangeable at first, Manafort somehow manages to elicit distinctive personalities and performances from her entire cast. They may be shallow and superficial personalities, but it’s still refreshing to spend this much time with a bunch of attractive teens and not have to worry about a serial killer picking them off one by one. - Variety

Remember the Daze (previously titled The Beautiful Ordinary) is a phenomenal full length debut from Jess Manafort. It's a glimpse into the teenage wasteland of suburbia 1999 that takes place over 24-hours, and the teenagers who make their way through the last day of high school in the last year of the past millennium. With a hot young cast and fantastic direction, it's really quite original and unlike many movies in similar genres as of late. It has all the makings of a cult classic for sure.

There have been many films that follow kids on their last days of high school, American Graffiti, similarly re-named Dazed and Confused, and so forth so Remember the Daze is certainly not the first, but in my opinion it's definitely one of the best and I'd consider it a modern classic for the sub genre. It's a terrific depiction of 1999's American teenagers ... (read all) - Mycah