Genre: Drama
Director: Marc Webb
Writer: Jack Ryder
Cast: Tom Holland, Jaden Smith, Justice Smith, Joey King, Angourie Rice, Kathryn Newton, Yara Shahidi, Marisa Tomei, Nick Offerman, Adam Sandler
Plot: Stephanie Hayes (Marisa Tomei) and Sara Hayes (Joey King) are sitting on their Dining table and calling Tim to join them for dinner. A dressed up Tim Hayes (Tom Holland) comes down and says he is going to Stu's birthday, Sara joins Tim who was thinking to go solo. Stephanie asks Tim what did he order from her card but Tim didn't hear what she said and went out.
Tim and Sara meets Stu Benzie (Jaden Smith), a childhood friend of Tim. They both take Stu to the school where a surprise birthday party was hosted by Tim, Ramona Smith (Kathryn Newton) and Joseph Parker (Justice Smith). A lot of other students of their school are also present there. They all cut the cake and start the party. Stu, Sara, Ramona and Joseph pair up and start dancing. A lone Tim is approached by Tasha Devon (Yara Shahidi) for a dance but Tim says no and say's he is not into dancing. Tasha sit's down with Tim and just chats. A window breaking incident alerts the watchmen who finds the students partying and Tim and the gang makes a run for it.
Next day when the school re-opened, Tim and friends finds the school is a complete mess. They all are called in the principal office. They all go in the office and find an angry Principal Busk (Adam Sandler) waiting for them. Busk asks them what was the occasion and whose idea was this. After a few moments Tim takes the blame saying he just wanted to party and threw it. Busk asks everyone to leave the room except of Tim. Busk sits near Tim and says that he knows that Tim was not the alone culprit in the party held yesterday, Busk says he admires that Tim stood up for his friends but this can't go unpunished and gives Tim a month of detention and asks him to clean up the mess the party made in the detention hours.
History teacher Mr Park (Nick Offerman) is teaching the class of Tim, Stu, Ramona and Joesph when Principal interrupts the class and introduce a new student who will be joining their class. Alicia Williams (Angourie Rice) walks in the classroom, Tim is smitten by her. Mr Park informs the class that whoever is interested to apply for the position of class monitor should summit their application by tomorrow. Tim and friends discuss who should send their applications. Stu believes he should try that this year, Tim starts to say something but is cut off by Ramona who says that she is going to apply and orders everybody else to not surprisingly everybody else agreed.
Tim shows up at the detention room where Mr Park is waiting for him to take him to the school backyard to start the clean up. Tim starts cleaning the mess, Tasha comes and joins him in the cleaning. Tim says she doesn't need to be here she replies that she can't help that her school is looking like a mess. While talking they listen that Mr Park is humming to Rubber Band by David Bowie and both join him.
Tim tries to approach Alicia but fails. He finally finds the courage to speak to her and sits beside he in the lunch to talk to her as soon as he trades pleasantries they are joined by Ramona. Alicia and Ramona connect well to each other and Ramona invites Alicia to her home. Tim is checking out Alicia and Ramona's Instagram to see what they are up to, Sara walks in and sees what Tim is doing and teases him of being a stalker. Tim stops checking out Instagram.
After a few days Tim gets time to meet the whole gang at the first game of the season their school basketball team after a long time due to his detention. Joseph stars in the teams victory and they all decide to celebrate. They all tease Tim that he is dating Tasha by seeing them spend time together in detention. Tim denies it and says that they have become friend. Tim sees Alicia and Ramona kiss, he is a bit shocked but Joseph tells him that they have been dating for some time now. Time checks Instagram and their profiles are filled with each other. Tim gets a bit sad.
Few days later, When Stu doesn't replies to his messages, Tim calls him and asks where is he at the moment Stu replies that he is with Joseph and helping him practice for his games and will be with him for all night. Tim gets a bit sad then Sara and Stephanie bursts in his room with a cake wishing him a happy birthday, with Tim eyes searching if there is anyone else behind them to his disappointment. He has a sad smile while the celebrations continued which a concerned Stephanie notices. Sleepless, Tim is tossing around in his bed at midnight when he hears David Bowie's "Starman" playing from his window, he moves aside the curtain to find Tasha standing on the other side. Tim opens the window so that Tasha can enters, Tasha enters the window and wishes Tim a happy birthday to which Tim is surprised. Seeing Tim perplexed Tasha explains that she was in the neighborhood and while checking her phone she saw Sara posting a pic of you all celebrating his birthday so she decided that she should wish him. Tim offers her the leftover cake and they both eat it while listening to "Starman" on repeat. Tasha now leaving initiates a chat standing outside the window. She leans in for a kiss but a tired Tim doesn't notices it and starts saying his goodbye's to her and she leaves.
The next day while Tim is in the class, the class hears a loud noise from the campus and when they go on to check that see that Joseph has fallen from the staircase with his bicycle while riding near it. He has broken his hand is taken to a nearby hospital. Tim and the gang spend nearly all the day at the hospital. It is revealed that Joseph has broken two of his large bones and some small bones are also injured, it would take him 10 weeks to heal and plus some more weeks with casts on. They all would regularly visit the hospital to see him.
Principal Busk and Professor Park comes to review the final paint job done by Tim and Tasha to clean the mess. After completely checking it Busk compliments Tim and Tasha and let them go to the schools basketball match. While going there Tasha strikes a conversation with Tim to ask whether they will see him around but Tim doesn't gives a firm reply. When they reach the court they see that without Joseph their team is taking a beating, Tim sees that Alicia and Ramona are sitting apart and sits beside Alicia and asks her the reason, he comes to know they have broken-off, after some conversation they plan that they will study together tomorrow in the Library. Tasha sees them from far.
Tim goes down with a viral fever and is advised a week of bed rest, he tells Alicia about it and they can't meet today. While Tim recovers a bit faster than expected, he starts cleaning his room expecting his friends to visit him. A few days goes by but nobody visited him, making him question his value to his friends. Tim starts spending all his day on the bed. Stephanie notices that his fever is down but he looks more tired and sad than before. Stephanie sees the clean room and assumes he is dejected that none of his friends visited him. Stephanie without asking him the reason advises him that he should stop worrying about others and what they think about him and he should do what he likes to do, she says people come and go from life but it is the moments that live on both sad and happy moments. Stephanie takes out a still packed package Tim ordered months ago and hands it to him and says live the life with things you like. While Stephanie was leaving she hears loud music from Sara's room and goes there and after some seconds comes back in Tim's rooms with a music player and plays Under Pressure by Queen and David Bowie and asks Tim for a dance to which a reluctant Tim agrees to and they both end up laughing after some time. Stephanie talks with Sara and asks her to keep an eye on Tim and be there with him.
Tim meets Professor Park and gets study material from him to be distributed in the class for the coming Mid-term. Tim organizes a get together at his home for the gang to study, the time comes but nobody shows up, after two hours Ramona and Alicia come to Tim house, they say that they put aside their differences and are back together to celebrate it they decided to go and watch a movie from there they are coming. A distraught Tim asks what about Joseph and Stu, they tell him that Joseph has holed up in house since the injury and rarely leaves it and Stu has been acting very weird since few days and is being an absentee to a lot of events. A worried Tim calls Stu a lot of times, after a lot of tries Stu picks up the phone. Tim asks his whereabouts and goes to meet him.
Tim meets Stu at a abandoned court where Stu tells Tim that this where he and Joseph used to practice. Tim asks why Stu is so sad, a sad Stu says he can't see his friend Joseph suffer like this. While he is injured and the team performance going down the hill, Joseph is taking it all this very seriously and is very badly affected by all the events. Tim realizes that everybody has their own set of problems that keeps them busy. They discuss what could help Joseph and they both agree that if the team could win some matches it would be a great help but they see that the team lacks a good replacement for Joseph's position. Tim suggests Stu should audition for that role as Stu and Joseph both used to practice together, Stu says that playing for the school was something Joseph wants he is more than happy to play with just him, Tim encourages Stu to try it for Joseph, Stu successfully auditions for the position.
They all appear for their Mid-terms and on the last Mid-term the schools next basketball match was going to be played, Tim forcefully brings an angry Joseph to the court who is surprised and then happy to see Stu in the court playing for the school. The team scraped a win with the help of Stu which makes Joseph joyous. Tasha comes towards Tim and thanks Tim for what he did and before he could say anything she confesses that she likes him and would love to go out with him some time and leaves leaving Tim perplexed.
Stephanie goes in Tim's room and sees that he is not there but sees that the package is open and the inside item not present in it. Stephanie tells Sara that she has to go solo to the Mid term party at the school as Tim is not here.
Sara goes in the party and meet the gang, Stu asks the whereabouts of Tim to Sara who doesn't know. Suddenly music hits the speakers and when the gang turns to see they see that Tim is on the stage with a brand new Guitar. Tim starts singing Space Oddity and crowd is enchanted by his singing. All of his friends and Sara are surprised initially but slowly they all start enjoying themselves. After finishing that Song he starts singing "Without You" by David Bowie and comes down the stage while singing it and stands in front of Tasha, singing the song to her. Ramona and Alicia dance together, while Sara kisses Stu on his cheeks and gets away a laughing Joseph teases a stunned Stu and Tim kisses Tasha after the song ends.
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