Synopsis
In The Secret Lives of Dorks, Payton (Gaelan Connell) is a pathetic dork, a comic book geek whose high school career is one hopeless faux pas after another. Yet he's a dreamer and madly in love with the head cheerleader Carrie (Riley Voelkel), who he is determined to win over. But she is wise to his desperate advances, so to get off his radar she creates a plan to push him into the arms of a dorkette at the school, Samantha (Vanessa Marano).
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Cast
- Gaelan ConnellPayton
- Vanessa MaranoSamantha
- Beau MirchoffClark
- Riley VoelkelCarrie Smith
- Jim BelushiBronko
- Jennifer TillyMs. Stewart
- William KattMr. Gibson
- Seymour CasselPrincipal
- Charlie StewartOllie
- Mark DaughertyChester Summers
Recommandations
- 70
Los Angeles Times
Johnny Severin and Nicholas David Brandt's otherwise clever and original script takes an unexpected turn at nearly every intersection, resulting in a funny and big-hearted coming-of-age romance. - 50
Variety
Winning performances by a number of fresh-faced newcomers are almost but not quite enough to recommend The Secret Lives of Dorks, a fitfully amusing, more often shrill and overstated teen comedy that, like its dweeby protagonist, tries too hard to impress. - 42
The A.V. Club
It’s arguable that the jocks and cheerleaders are this movie’s true heroes, without whom those pathetic dorks would never be able to find one another. - 40
The Hollywood Reporter
A formulaic comedy that displays as much subtlety as its title. - 40
The Dissolve
It has a good heart and a good cast, mixing Hollywood veterans with some of today’s better young TV stars. But the movie is strenuously, exhaustingly unfunny, in a way that makes its phoniness harder to bear. - 30
Village Voice
The Secret Lives of Dorks, starring Jim Belushi, is, well, the Jim Belushi of high-school romantic comedies: indifferent, kind of exhausted. - 0
The New York Times
There’s no way to prepare yourself for how awful The Secret Lives of Dorks is.