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Movie Info

Hoping to turn an awkward classmate's (Gaelan Connell) attention elsewhere, a high-school cheerleader (Riley Voelkel) tries to fix him up with an equally nerdy teen (Vanessa Marano).

Rating:

PG-13 (Crude and Sexual Content|Language)
Genre:

comedy
Original Language:

English
Director:

Salomé Breziner
Producer:

Dominic Ianno, Stephen Israel, Steven J. Wolfe
Writer:

Johnny Severin, Nicholas Brandt
Release Date (Theaters):

Sep 27, 2013 limited
Release Date (Streaming):

Feb 23, 2017
Runtime:

1h 31m
Production Co:

Indomitable Entertainment

Cast & Crew

Gaelan Connell
Payton

Vanessa Marano
Samantha

Riley Voelkel
Carrie Smith

Beau Mirchoff
Clark

Seymour Cassel
Principal

William Katt
Mr. Gibson

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Critic Reviews for The Secret Lives of Dorks

All Critics (9) | Top Critics (4) | Fresh (1) | Rotten (8)

It has a good heart and a good cast...But the movie is strenuously, exhaustingly unfunny, in a way that makes its phoniness harder to bear.

September 30, 2013 | Rating: 2/5 | Full Review…

Noel Murray
The Dissolve
There's no way to prepare yourself for how awful "The Secret Lives of Dorks" is.

September 26, 2013 | Rating: 0/5 | Full Review…

Neil Genzlinger
New York Times
Johnny Severin and Nicholas David Brandt's ... clever and original script takes an unexpected turn at nearly every intersection, resulting in a funny and big-hearted coming-of-age romance.

September 26, 2013 | Rating: 3.5/5 | Full Review…

Annlee Ellingson
Los Angeles Times
Replete with deadly fart jokes, projectile-vomit jokes, accidental-boob-grab jokes, and various other sources of alleged humor that real-life outcasts wouldn't voluntarily go anywhere near.

September 26, 2013 | Rating: C- | Full Review…

Mike D'Angelo
AV Club
The Jim Belushi of high-school romantic comedies: indifferent, kind of exhausted.

September 24, 2013 | Full Review…

Chris Packham
Village Voice
It tries to be satirical and plausible and fails at both, but it does manage to conjure up just enough heart to keep the experience from being a total grating loss.

September 24, 2013 | Rating: 2/5 | Full Review…

Perri Nemiroff
Shockya.com
If you are ready for some laughs and almost inhumanly able to go along with the jokes, you will chuckle now and then in spite of yourself.

November 6, 2013 | Rating: 5/10 | Full Review…

Ron Wilkinson
It's Just Movies
Another entry in the "Why Should We Care?" department, The Secret Lives of Dorks feels like something we have all been through too many times before.

October 14, 2013 | Full Review…

David Noh
Film Journal International
Tedious teen comedy hits every high school clique cliche.

September 29, 2013 | Rating: 2/5 | Full Review…

S. Jhoanna Robledo
Common Sense Media