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Actors: Luke Benward, Adam Hicks, Hallie Kate Eisenberg, Austin Rogers, Kimberly Williams, Thomas Cavanaugh
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| Review Summary and Plot Commentary about How to Eat Fried Worms |
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This movie “How to Eat Fried Worms” is based on a book published in 1973, it took around 33 years to make a movie out of that 1973 book. This movie is about a young boy and his struggle to adapt to new change and try to fit in to his new school. Mitch Forrester and his wife Helen along with their two sons Billy and Woody pack up their stuff and get into the family station wagon and are heading to a new town with a new job for Mitch and a new elementary school for son Billy.
Everyone else in the family easily adapted to the new surrounding even Billy's younger brother Woody but Billy's fears are realized in his first moments at the new school when everybody picks on the new kid appears to be true.
Everybody picks on Billy except the tall girl Erika Tanzy whose sympathy inspires gratefulness and humiliation in Billy. Joe and his band of 5th grade followers are the school bully's they put worms in Billy's lunch, Billy surprises them all when he stands up to and embarrasses Joe. Which leads Billy and Joe to make a bet: on Saturday Billy must eat 10 worms by 7PM.
Billy's parents leave Woody in his care, Billy ask Erika to help keep an eye on Woody and some moral support in his challenge. Joe's gang makes each worm more amusingly disgusting than the last one, beginning with La Big Porker, fried in pig fat.
Joe's gang tries to force Billy to throw up by dubbing each specimen increasingly disgusting names like The Burning Fireball, The Greasy Brown Toad Bloater Special, and The Barfmallow. When the adventure finally ends all of the kids learn the true meaning of friendship and bravery.
--Faiza Iqtidar, Resident Scholar
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| Analysis of How to Eat Fried Worms |
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Plot
Time/era of movie:
- present (2000-2010)
Kids growing up/acting up?
Yes
Age group
- trouble in grade school
Main Character
Identity:
- Male
Profession/status:
- student
Age:
- a kid
Is this an ordinary person caught up in events?
Yes
Hair color?
- brunette (Black)
Hair type
- (man) short/standard straight
Body type
- (man) average
Events of movie makes character more...
- caring
Ethnicity/Nationality
- White (American)
How sensitive is this character?
- sensitive to others' feelings
Sense of humor?
- Strong but gentle sense of humor
Intelligence
- Smarter than most other characters
Physique
- average physique
Secondary Main Character
Identity:
- Female
Hair color
- brunette (Black)
Hair style
- (woman) medium/shoulderlgn curly
Body type
- (woman) average
How much in movie?
- 80%
Ethnicity/Nationality
- White (American)
Main Adversary
Identity:
- general circumstances
Setting
United States
Yes
Style
Accounts of torture and death?
- no torture/death
Movie makes you feel...
- full of laughter
Any profanity?
- Occasional swearing
If this is a kid's movie...
- Ages 10-15
Is this movie based on a
- book
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