i pretty much stopped watching the movie when the oily girl introduces the new guy to "freaks". whoever their 2006 fact-checker was he/she did a crap job. a "freak" in the 80's wasn't really a bad thing. freaks were generally people who did drugs and were heavily into music and partying to extremes -- including extreme styles that went with it, i.e. deadheads - people who followed the band the Grateful Dead; people who dropped acid a lot; people who were usually stoned. freaks were generally cool, as in truly cool, and many people chose freaks over jocks because freaks had the nerve to be who they are. very individualistic people, not at all conformist. a lot of artists were freaks. the people oily girl introduced the new kid to would have been called "geeks" in the 1980's and most people avoided geeks of all sorts, computer geeks, science geeks, Trekkie geeks etc. if a movie can't even spend to hire a decent fact-checker to look up proper definitions of slang of a particular decade the misrepresentation is too great, too bogus and not worth anyone's time. the movie seemed to suck anyway and the people playing the leads all looked 25, not 17.
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