Don't be anyone's date to this teeny bopper crud.
As Brookside High's prom night approaches, teen overachiever Nova Prescott (Friday Night Lights' Aimee Teegarden) finds herself drawn to a guy from the wrong side of the tracks (Thomas McDonell), and her peers' relationships unspool or catch flame.
It's almost comical how much effort Disney poured into the cast's racial diversity, making their exclusion of any gay characters all the more glaring. Especially given the media's coverage over the past year's time of gay teen suicide rates, bullying, harassment, and even prom exclusion. Constance McMillan is the latter's most famous example: her Mississippi school barred her in 2010 from bringing her girlfriend or donning a tux, then canceled the prom altogether when the ACLU cried foul. Such stories abound, so it would have been a nice touch had Disney expended the tiny bit of effort required to show young gays and lesbians they’re as welcome at their proms as anyone else. But the Mouse didn’t want to take on that thorny issue and instead chose to pretend gay and lesbian teens don’t exist.
Nova is the pretty blonde class president, valedictorian, homecoming queen and, naturally, head of prom planning — basically Tracey Flick minus the evil. The poor thing shows such fevered, cult-like devotion to the prom’s sacredness that, when her decorations go up in smoke in an early scene, it's a wonder she herself doesn't burst into flame upon hearing the news. But, despite her foibles (and being named after a Chevy), Nova did finally grow on me, evolving into at least a semblance of a human being. Still, this was thanks only to the unconventional Jesse's influence, much to the chagrin of her father (a creepy Dean Norris), not her own initiative to change.
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