National Lampoon’s BARELY LEGAL(2003)

During the course of filming After School Special, Deacon (Erik von Detten) develops a connection with his crush, Naomi (Amy Smart), and he eventually has sex with her. However, after she finds out that he is making a porn film with Fred (Tony Denman) and Matt (Daniel Farber), she convinces him to hire her on as a creative consultant for the female perspective. However, her presence on the set is not welcomed by Matt or (especially) Fred, and her suggestions end up triggering a fight between everyone involved in the production, which causes Ashley (Sarah-Jane Potts), the star performer, to leave in frustration. As he spends more time with Naomi over the next couple of days, Deacon starts to realize that what Ashley once told him about her was true: Sometimes, the real thing isn’t all that better than the fantasy.

When Deacon meets up with Fred and Matt again in his basement one night, he finds out that they have decided to kick him off the project. Fred explains to him that this film is supposed to be “by virgins, for virgins”, but ever since he slept with Naomi, he has been neglecting him and Matt. He also asks Deacon if he even LIKES Naomi. Feeling betrayed, Deacon coldly tells him and Matt to continue on without him. At school the following day, Deacon is surprised by his ex-girlfriend Rachael (Cameron Richardson), who has just returned from her overseas trip. When they chat, he finds out from her that the rumors he heard about her sleeping with their classmate John while she was away are completely false. After taking some time to think and reflect, Deacon pays Fred and Matt a visit and apologizes to them for how he has treated them, and then Ashley appears before them and tells them that she wants to get the movie completed. The guys manage to finish the film and also cut together some footage for Ashley for her reel, but after they have an argument over some things pertaining to the film, they all admit to each other that making it was a mistake. In the end, they mutually agree to fill the film’s pre-orders, then shut down their website and get out of the porn business for good.

Deacon, Fred, and Matt throw a big party to celebrate completing the movie (though the guests don’t know that that is the reason why they are having the party). Ashley shows up in the middle of it and thanks them, telling them that she has submitted her reel to Vivid Entertainment, and they want to discuss a contract with her. Deacon also gently ends things with Naomi, and he gives her free rein to tell everyone that she dumped him and gets her word that she will not tell anyone about the movie. Moments later, Deacon’s enemy Jake (Riley Smith) gets on a microphone and tells everyone that Deacon and his friends made porn in Deacon’s basement, and when Deacon tries to silence him, Jake tells him that he is going to inform his parents (Tom Arnold & Dey Young) about what he has done. Deacon reminds him that the film and its website cannot be traced back to him or his friends in any way, but Jake informs him that he has sent the videotape of his failed scene in the film to his parents by priority mail, which clearly shows that it took place in his family’s basement (Jake tried to be a performer in the film, but he revealed that he had a small penis, plus he prematurely ejaculated when Ashley tried to stimulate him, which led to him confiscating the tape). Naomi sends Jake to the floor with a kick in the nuts and a punch to the face, and then Deacon runs towards his minivan with Fred and Matt so they can hurry over to his house and get the videotape first.

Unfortunately, before the guys are able to leave, porn star Vic Ramalot (Horatio Sanz) and his co-worker Mike (Eddie Driscoll) confront them with guns drawn, since Vic believes that the trio have been cutting into his business and need to be punished for it. The men take the boys to an abandoned slaughterhouse so Vic can castrate them with hedge clippers, but before Vic can harm any of them, Matt yells that their film has amassed 63,212 pre-orders. The trio then makes a deal with Vic where they will hand over the film’s master tapes and website to him in exchange for a free supply of quality porn and his word that he will maintain the vision of After School Special, and Vic lets them go. After the boys make it to Deacon’s house, they find out that Deacon’s parents know nothing about the tape, thanks to Deacon’s younger brother Max (Anders Hedman) getting a hold of it first. He hands the tape over to them, but not before blackmailing Deacon into accepting a list of demands that he has made, and he also reveals that he has known about their film since the beginning; he submitted the first pre-order. Deacon asks his friends what they will do with the tape now, and Matt replies that he has an idea….

The next day, Fred and Matt (initially) complain about how they have no money, women, or a better social position after all that has happened, but Deacon is happy because he and Rachael have restarted their relationship. He narrates that they still haven’t had sex, but he doesn’t mind it, feeling that it would be better for him to not rush into it this time. He also says that, despite his and his friends’ efforts to keep their porn film project a secret, word managed to get around their school about what they did, and they became legends. While the trio and Rachael are walking through the halls at school, two attractive girls – Wendy (Daniella Evangelista) and Kelly (Nicole McKay) – come up to Fred and Matt and hit on them, having heard rumors that they know a thing or two about giving a woman pleasure, and both sides agree to a double date in the near future. After Rachael heads off to class, Jake comes up to Deacon and behaves like a jerk toward him again, and in response, Deacon and his pals hijack all of the school’s video monitors and play an edited version of Jake’s tape on them for all to see, where it just shows the footage of Jake and his penile problems. When the guys leave school at the end of the day, Vic and Mike pull up in a car carrier trailer and drop off three convertibles for the guys as a gift, and they soon take off in them with Rachael riding with Deacon, Wendy with Fred, and Kelly with Matt.

Sometime later, Deacon’s parents are shown watching a copy of After School Special, but they become shocked once they realize it was filmed in their basement.