Junior-college golden boy Don (Marshall Allman) is gearing up to attend a Baptist university in the fall and fielding warnings from members of his suburban-Houston congregation that the school has gotten "way more liberal." When his layabout nonbeliever dad calls in a favor and enrolls him in Portland, Ore.'s, Reed College, Don angrily refuses to change the plan — until he learns his beloved mother is having an affair with the youth pastor he works under, at which point Don flees to the famously permissive institution. He doesn't so much clash with the campus alt-mores as heedlessly embrace them, especially after a new friend advises Don to keep his faith in the closet. (The good-natured skewering of the double standards held by both the closed-minded folks Don grew up with and the run-amok undergrads is often a cut above the usual indie-comedy mock shock.) Co-writer/director Steve Taylor proceeds to paint Reed as a cartoon bastion of every stereotypical left-coast -ism imaginable. Don tags along for several coordinated activist stunts and even broadly denounces religion during seminar discussion, much to the exasperation of do-gooder crush Penny (Claire Holt), who shapes up to be the bratty protagonist's conscience in matters of... More >>>