Sideline Secrets

Video
2006
Unrated
1h 36m

IMDb RATING

3.8/10

323

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James Townsend and Alex Wilson in Sideline Secrets (2006)

Drama Mystery Romance

"Sideline Secrets" follows the story of high-school senior Devon Tyler. With successful parents, a popular girlfriend, plenty of friends, and being at the top of his class and about to gradu... Read all"Sideline Secrets" follows the story of high-school senior Devon Tyler. With successful parents, a popular girlfriend, plenty of friends, and being at the top of his class and about to graduate, all seems ideal. However underneath the surface, things are not what they seem. With ... Read all"Sideline Secrets" follows the story of high-school senior Devon Tyler. With successful parents, a popular girlfriend, plenty of friends, and being at the top of his class and about to graduate, all seems ideal. However underneath the surface, things are not what they seem. With the heightened awareness of his sexual identity, the crumbling marriage of his gruff, unsu... Read all

Director
- Steven Vasquez
Writers
- James Townsend
- Steven Vasquez
Stars

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IMDb RATING

3.8/10

323

YOUR RATING

Director
- Steven Vasquez
Writers
- James Townsend
- Steven Vasquez
Stars

16User reviews

See production info at IMDbPro

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Trivia
The official drinks used in the film are actual energy beverages called "Sum Poosie" and "Think Pink". Both have a vibrant pink color to them and are made and distributed by the Hollywood Beach Beverage Company in Florida.

Goofs
When Devon is in the shower getting ready for his date with Jenna, it is clear that he does not have a navel piercing. But when we see him later that same night, he has a pink spiral ring.

Quotes
Jenna: ...and how come you never get to see the guy's dick?

Crazy credits
The cat is included in the credits. "Syphilis the Cat"

Connections
Followed by Darker Secrets: Sideline Secrets II (2008)

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Featured review

Don't trust the good reviews.

Until now, the worst movie I had ever seen was Ben & Arthur. You really should check the reviews for that movie instead of this one. The review statistics for this movie have been skewed positive through a relentless and unscrupulous push by some of the people involved in making it, evidence for which is fairly easy to uncover online. At least the people who made Ben & Arthur were honorable enough to let it stand on its own shaky legs, instead of unscrupulously promoting it so suckers like me would buy it.

Everything about this movie is terrible, the script, the story, the casting, the acting, the direction, the photography, the editing, the music... what else goes into a movie? Whatever it is, here it's as bad as it gets. If it weren't so unpleasant it would be ridiculous. I kept watching it thinking it must get better, because I hadn't yet discovered that none of the positive reviews for it are reliable.

It does not take a lot of money to make a great movie, nor does a low budget mean a movie has to be bad. My favorite example of a shoestring-budget masterpiece is Gus Van Sant's amazing Mala Noche, but there are many others. Sideline Secrets—Director's Cut or original—is bad not because the people who made it had no money, but because they had gigantic egos and no talent for anything at all except self-promotion.