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It's not just a place. It's a state of mind.
TheWolf - wrote on 07/27/2007
Shaun Brumder (portrayed by Colin Hanks, the son of Tom Hanks) is a high honors student who is desperately hoping to get into Stanford University. The movie opens with Shaun talking about his life before becoming a good student, he was an average kid that loved to surf, and hang out with his friends. One day he comes across a book in the sand of the beach, that is written by a teacher at Stanford named Marcus Skinner (played by Kevin Klein). Shaun is so infatuated with the book that he decides that he would like to become a writer, so he spends all of his time writing.
When the guidance counselor makes a mistake and sends his application in with the wrong transcript (one of a stoner that applied to Stanford as a joke) and obviously fails to get accepted (and the stoner gets in).
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