The read
Audiences rate it 18 points higher than critics do.
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).
Ratings
IMDb5/10
Rotten Tomatoes11%
Metacritic32/100
Audiences rate it 18 points higher than critics do.
19 audience votes
Key crew
- Salomé BrezinerDirector
- Nicholas David BrandtWriter
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
- Escher HollowayMatt Kinsella
- Tyler SteelmanHerbie
Themes
woman directorlightheartedfarcical