James Toback's semi-autobiographical picture about a restless ivy leaguer on a bum trip may be his most pruriently entertaining movie since his 1978 debut, FINGERS. Promising young Harvard philosophy major Alan Jensen (Adrian Grenier) is dedicated to exploring the boundaries of his conscious world by any means necessary — scholarship, drugs, sports, sex...he just wants to be "out there," as far as he can go. So he's smoking dope, grooving on ear-splitting combinations of classical and techno music, savoring the adrenaline high of playing for the basketball team and sleeping with both throaty-voiced philosophy professor Chesney Cort (Joey Lauren Adams) and cute-a...
Released:
2002
Rated:
R
Length:
100 mins