American Yearbook is an award-winning 2004 American

Cinema of the United States

The cinema of the United States, also known as Hollywood, has had a profound effect on cinema across the world since the early 20th century. Its history is sometimes separated into four main periods: the silent film era, classical Hollywood cinema, New Hollywood, and the contemporary period...

 drama film

Drama film

A drama film is a film genre that depends mostly on in-depth development of realistic characters dealing with emotional themes. Dramatic themes such as alcoholism, drug addiction, infidelity, moral dilemmas, racial prejudice, religious intolerance, poverty, class divisions, violence against women...

 written, produced, edited, and directed by Brian Ging. While the film itself is finished, and has been shown at various film festivals, there is currently no public release

Wide release

Wide release is a term in the American motion picture industry for a motion picture that is playing nationally . Specifically, a movie is considered to be in wide release when it is on 600 screens or more in the United States and Canada.In the US, films holding an NC-17 rating almost never have a...

 date. The film was well received during its limited release

Limited release

Limited release is a term in the American motion picture industry for a motion picture that is playing in a select few theaters across the country ....

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Plot

Will Nash (Nick Tagas) is the kid-next-door, a typical upbeat high schooler, but his dreams of being a photographer quickly fade, as he is relentlessly terrorized by school bullies Ian (Chris Peter) and Jason (Ryan Nixon). Will adores Amanda (Giovannie Pico

Giovannie Pico

Giovannie Pico is a Filipina television, film and stage actress whose most visible role has been that of medical student Ludlow in 2004-05 episodes of NBC's top-rated hospital drama ER....

), but her best friend Kristy (Jennifer Noble) is dating the head bully Ian. Confused and angry, Will meets a mysterious, brooding character named Chance (Jon Carlo Alvarez), both of them outsiders. Chance eventually convinces Will that they should get a gun and take the bullies out: pull a Columbine

Columbine High School massacre

The Columbine High School massacre occurred on Tuesday, April 20, 1999, at Columbine High School in Columbine, an unincorporated area of Jefferson County, Colorado, United States, near Denver and Littleton. Two senior students, Eric Harris and Dylan Klebold, embarked on a massacre, killing 12...

. Amanda pleads with Will to set revenge aside, but can Will stop what he and Chance have started, or are Will's emotions too strong for him to just walk away?

Cast

• Nick Tagas as William "Will" Nash
• Jon Carlo Alvarez as Chance Holden
• Chris Peter as Ian Blake
• Ryan Nixon as Jason Clarke
• Giovannie Pico
  Giovannie Pico
  Giovannie Pico is a Filipina television, film and stage actress whose most visible role has been that of medical student Ludlow in 2004-05 episodes of NBC's top-rated hospital drama ER....
  
   as Amanda Hunter
• Jennifer Noble as Kristy Palmer
• Daniel Timko as Brandon Holden

See also

• List of American films of 2004
• Bang Bang You're Dead, a 2002 TV film about a school shooting
• Zero Day, a 2003 film about a school shooting.
• Elephant, another 2003 film about a school shooting.
• Duck! The Carbine High Massacre
  Duck! The Carbine High Massacre
  Duck! The Carbine High Massacre is a 2000 black comedy film about a fictional school shooting. It was the first Columbine-inspired film to be released. It was released exactly one year after the massacre. It is written, produced, directed, and starred by softcore horror/sex film directors William...
  
  , a 2000 film about a school shooting.