The film follows a poor teen struggling to help his suffering mom and their sick dog and a beautiful runaway as they hatch schemes to profit from students at a private school.
... it's one of the most gently subversive films on the topic I've seen in some time, but Hard Sell treats these ideas as window-dressing for Hardy's coming-of-age story.
Isn't as exhaustively meaningful as it would like to be, but Nalaboff has the right idea, avoiding traditional adolescent high jinks to identify vulnerabilities, prizing matters of the heart more than laughs.
A weird mashup of cliches that don't go together and appear to have been assembled by someone with no understanding of actual human behavior or motivation.
This study of an impoverished student and a stripper teaming up to bilk his rich classmates feels like a Risky Business rip-off, which doesn't make it any less lousy.
