Logline:
When 17-year-old Jared Ashmore’s prank for Muck Up Day destroys part of the school, the celebratory day for graduating students is banned and Jared becomes a pariah. When an opportunistic politician further smears Jared’s name, he sets out to get revenge and reclaim his popularity by pulling off the biggest prank the world has ever seen.
Synopsis:
17 year old class clown Jared Ashmore has no plans for life after high school. It doesn’t matter to him, especially as his parents are forcing him to move after graduation anyway. For now, all that matters to him is pulling off his biggest prank yet for muck up day.
His plan involves draining the school pool to turn it into a giant ball pit. Concealing the thousands of foam balls he needs above the school gym, their collective weight causes the ceiling to collapse in the middle of an assembly.
A former graduate of Jared’s school, Gary “Blue” Blumenthal, is set to run for Prime Minister and is about to be inducted into the school’s hall of fame. With the scrutiny of the public eye strongly along the school, Principal Stone, himself about to retire, has no choice but to ban muck up day.
Jared becomes the least popular kid in school overnight, and his life becomes a living hell. Principal Stone has school captain Lance keep a close eye on Jared to keep him in line. When the incident received media coverage and Blue publicly smears Jared’s name, Jared vows revenge.
Alongside his best friends, Max and Liza, and his girlfriend, Erica, Jared rallies the school behind him to pull off the biggest prank ever during Blue’s visit as revenge. His resolve is tested when Erica breaks up with him due to his lack of direction in life and her own desire to pursue bigger things.
Muck up day arrives, and Jared is sequestered in the principal’s office to ensure nothing can go wrong, but his prank is already underway thanks to the help of all the other students at the school. Max and Liza steal Blue’s car while he is distracted by marijuana being pumped through the school vents, beer raining from its sprinklers, porn showing on the library computers, and obnoxious techno music blasting from the school speakers. They take the car to the school’s hall of fame where they fill it with rotting bananas.
Upon finding his car, Blue loses his cool on an open mic. His fate is sealed when it is revealed that Lance has enacted his own prank against Blue, exposing the politician’s secret of covering up a drunk driving incident when he was a teen. His reputation ruined in front of the country, Blue flees in disgrace.
Nonetheless, Jared is expelled for his prank and moves away with his parents, where he finds freedom and happiness in his new circumstances. Many years later, Jared becomes a teacher himself. Seeing his students planning their own muck up day prank, he secretly assists them.
James MacKenzie Smith 