![]() The homecoming dance, which Dizzy's funk band is supposed to play, is crashed by the students of Rocky Creek. After the attack, Conner helps Barclay up from the ground, telling him he wants to know what he knows about Dizzy. At school the next day, while East Highland still celebrates, Barclay confronts and attempts to fight Dizzy, but before he can do anything, he is attacked by the entire student body. Reaching the state championship, where they play Rocky Creek, Dizzy's antics on the sideline cost Rocky Creek the game.Īfter Rocky Creek's loss to East Highland, Barclay slowly starts realizing who Gil is, as East Highland High celebrates their victory. With a new philosophy, the school football team wins more games and bullying becomes a thing of the past. Dizzy and Danielle spur the students to reunite, and the lines dividing the different cliques are broken. When Nora berates Dizzy for becoming the same person he once hated, he uses his newfound popularity to confront Conner. However, Dizzy and Gil are fast becoming too big for one body. Danielle breaks up with Conner and starts a relationship with Dizzy. He is soon enlisted by the coach and principal to plan the school's homecoming dance, and becomes imbued with school spirit, shedding his bad boy image. Upon returning home, however, he finds his father has sold their house and quit work to supervise him, which results in them living in a trailer.ĭanielle asks Dizzy to encourage the school to go to see the football team play he, referencing General Patton and Braveheart, gives an impassioned speech, inspiring the team to win their first game in years. Using a photo given to him by the prison inmates and help from his old friends, Dizzy manages to escape the party with his reputation intact. Her friend Courtney invites Dizzy to a party and through a mishap, he gives her the impression that he has blown her off. He enrolls at East Highland High and head cheerleader Danielle welcomes the newcomer to school. ![]() Dizzy is friends with Nora, Kirk, and Glen, who together started a funk rock band called "Suburban Funk" and are addicted to video games. Prison inmate Luther speaks directly to the camera in the opening, telling the story of Dizzy Gillespie Harrison, an 18-year-old nerdy high school senior in Austin, Texas. The film received generally negative reviews, but was a modest box office success. Eventually, Gil has to face his demons from his old school when they face each other in a football game. He begins dating popular girl Danielle (Dushku) and unites a once-divided school, also greatly improving its football team. Learning how to be cool from a prison inmate, he renames himself Gil Harris and is quick to make new friends and soon gains respect from jocks and geeks alike. ![]() The film tells the story of high school loser Dizzy Harrison (Qualls) who gets himself expelled so that he can move schools and reinvent himself. ![]() The New Guy is a 2002 American teen comedy film directed by Ed Decter, written by David Kendall and starring DJ Qualls and Eliza Dushku. ![]()
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