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Released
2002 · FILM

The New Guy

A nerdy senior deliberately gets expelled to reinvent himself as the ultimate high‑school badass, but when he hires a convict to teach him “cool” and infiltrates a new school, he must keep his fake persona intact or risk losing everything.

“A zero will rise.”

Directed by
Ed Decter
Written by
David Kendall
Rated
MPA · PG-13
Runtime
88 min
Comedy

Synopsis

Dizzy Harrison, a nerdy high school senior, finds himself in an unexpected situation after deliberately getting expelled. In an effort to reinvent himself, he begins taking lessons in "badass cool" from a convicted criminal and enrolls at a new school. However, the challenge remains whether he can maintain the facade.

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How many hands made this film

The scale of the collaboration

Principal cast & crew: 22

These are the principals we have on file — the full crew ran to the hundreds. Every film this size was made by far more hands than any credits list ever names.

Why a floor?

This is a minimum, not a total. We only count the credits we’ve captured so far, and coverage is uneven — a blockbuster might show a few hundred names while another of the same size shows a couple dozen. The real crews all ran into the thousands. The number here only grows as full credits are enriched — so we frame it as a floor, never a headcount.

Craft leads on file

Edited by David RennieShot by Michael D O SheaScored by Ralph SallDesigned by Dina Lipton

Box Office

2002 · Box office

⚖️ Fell short of break-even — grossed 2.4× its budget

Why 2.5×?

Cinemas keep roughly half of every ticket sold, and a wide release’s marketing often costs about as much again as the film — so a movie needs to gross around 2.5× its production budget just to break even theatrically. It’s a rule of thumb, not the studio’s ledger (home video and streaming come later).

Worldwide gross

$31.2M

Budget$13.0M
Worldwide gross$31.2M
break-even (2.5×)

US & Canada: $29.8M — 95% of worldwide · International: $1.4M (5%)

Opening weekend: $9.0M — 30% of its US run.

Opening week (7-day): $10.8M — 36% of its US & Canada run.

Peak 2,687 theaters

Also known as

  • The New Guyde
  • The New Guy - Auf die ganz coole Tourde
  • Le Nouveaufr
  • Un ragazzo tutto nuovoit

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