Release: Graduation Trip

 

Graduation Trip
Genre: Comedy
Director: Gregg Araki
Writer: Alex Conn
Cast: Charlie Plummer, RJ Cyler, Harley Quinn Smith, Ty Simpkins, Molly Gordon, Austin Abrams, Steve Buscemi






Budget: $15,000,000
Domestic Box Office: $10,591,451
Foreign Box Office: $3,099,909
Total Profit: -$14,312,750

Reaction: Thankfully Graduation Trip did not cost too much to produce and market, otherwise the box office could have looked a lot uglier than it ended up.

"Okay may I ask without judging, 'who is this for?' I mean no one is likeable, the script feels desperate in need of a script doctor who understands comedy, and devoid that certain social issues here makes NOT ANOTHER TEEN MOVIE look like a masterpiece. I'm sorry but I left this in need of a drink." - Merle Eliassen, Film Journal International

"Ooof. I want to try to keep my criticism of this film constructive, but it is hard as there is not a single funny moment in this supposed 'comedy'. Writer Alex Conn and director Gregg Araki clearly went for broke going for a raunchy tone. They brought the raunchy, they just forgot the funny." - Dave Manning, Ridgefield Press

"I really tried to go into Graduation Trip with an open mind, hoping to find something good in the story. Turns out there really isn't much of a story other than a series of excuses to get a bunch of horny teenagers and their principal into hotel rooms where they do a bunch of really inappropriate things with and to each other. This is being marketed strictly as a comedy, so story issues can be forgiven if it delivers laughs. I did not laugh once during Graduation Trip. If you like jokes about AIDs, gay sex (and possible rape), a principal having sex with students, middle-aged white guys rapping, autism, and fast food restaurants, maybe you'll enjoy this film more than I did."- Perry Manson, CinemaBlend.com

Rated R for language and sexual content/nudity