Bethany Richards

Angus -- Angus is fat, dorky and smart, a kid with an uncool pal and a crush on a cheerleader. Angus is funny, rowdy and triumphant, a totally cool movie with a dead-on eye and ear for the hilarious, heartbreaking rite of passage called high school.

Stow Falls needs a new recreation center and the local merchants have decided to donate money if the kids clean up the town. For each clean up chore, the kids receive a token and the one with the most tokens wins two summer passes to the town’s new amusement park. When Tom Sawyer (Phillip Van Dyke) hears this, he's up to his old pranks and convinces the kids in the neighborhood to do all the chores and turn over the tokens to him. But Joe, a charming villain, is really planning to steal all the town’s money. When Tom discovers the town is in danger, he and his friends attempt to foil Joe's escape.

Angus is fat, dorky and smart, a kid with an uncool pal and a crush on a cheerleader. Angus is funny, rowdy and triumphant, a totally cool movie with a dead-on eye and ear for the hilarious, heartbreaking rite of passage called high school. A great cast (including Academy Award® winners* George C. Scott and Kathy Bates as Angus's oddball family) sparks this story about what happens when Angus is named King of the Winter Ball as a prank - and how he turns humiliation into victory. Angus, Roger Ebert wrote in the Chicago Sun-Times, "delivers a rousing 'up yours' to all the snotty high school golden boys [and] a climax that I, for one, found wholly the equal of anything in Rocky."

Angus is fat, dorky and smart, a kid with an uncool pal and a crush on a cheerleader. Angus is funny, rowdy and triumphant, a totally cool movie with a dead-on eye and ear for the hilarious, heartbreaking rite of passage called high school. A great cast including George C. Scott and Kathy Bates sparks this story about what happens when Angus is named King of the Winter Ball as a prank - and how he turns humiliation into victory.