When the students nominate people for class president, Jerry is shown wearing a red bowtie.
However, he does not receive the bowtie until several scenes later, when he is disguised as an ice cream man.
Imagine a very early Tim Burton flick, before Beetlejuice, before Peewee, and cast a subdued Robin Williams in the role of Jerry the lesser demon, make it a high school teencom, and maybe you'll have an idea what this movie is like.Highlights include: creative visuals without flashy FX (I love the depiction of Hell as an office sweatshop, not unlike a few where I've worked before), excellent acting by the teen stars, and a particularly vibrant performance by Kevin Pollack, all of which bring this otherwise dusty story to life.
Good Movie 7/10. This is back when movies still had plots and character development.
I love Shiri so i bought the movie, but even if she's on the cover she's really just in the movie through like a stalkers eye view until close to the end. The younger guy in the cover wants her and she's like the hot popular chick he cant have, so I he sold his soul to the devil (I think...
This is an imaginative, visually distinctive film that stands apart from the current, hum-drum collection of high school pics, mostly because it treats its audience with respect and has the visual chops to back it up. This is a romantic comedy for kids and their young parents, with a smart variation on Faust as the agent for the Devil takes the soul of an amoral kid.
I saw this film with my wife at the opening of the Noosa International Film Festival in Australia. We're just going through our notes, and as I said, what a nice surprise.
"Deal of a Lifetime" almost makes it to second rate. Trying to be a teen "feel good" flick with a message, the film has a few "moments" but nothing to make it worth sitting through.
This is the worst version of the Faust story ever. The characters are totally unbelievable and the writing belongs to grammar school writing class.
There are 2 reasons why I like this movie:1) Alex Solowitz is in it, he is one of my favorite actors, I loved him in 2Gether2) They made this movie at my school (Arcadia High School, Arcadia, CA)... how awesome is that?
In this low budget film we have another retelling of the deal with the devil story. I was curious in that I wanted to see how Michael Goorjian did in a more major role than the supporting part that he always had in Party of Five.
