A coming-of-age comedy about five high-school students in a Chicago suburb, brought together in Saturday detention. The kids are as different as they come, clique-wise, but after spending a day cooped up together, they get under each other's skins to reveal their common vulnerabilities and, ultimately, sweetness. The lunch scene--in which the kids unpack their brown bags (or sushi plate, or nothing at all)--succinctly defines the social stereotypes the characters eventually buck.

(by Rebecca L. Epstein)