Geography Club Helps Teens Navigate Life

Before you get the mistaken impression that Geography Club is a about a nerdy high school group that studies the shape of the earth, it's not that at all: Goodkind High School's Geography Club is a secret society with a name so nerdy it keeps the curious away. It's actually a group of teens trying to figure out their place in the social terrain.

Geography Club, based on the first novel in Bret Hartinger's critically acclaimed best selling Russel Middlebrook series is a smart, funny film adapted for the screen by twin filmmakers, the Entin brothers- Gary (director) and Edmund (writer). The film will open in 15 cities across the United States, on November 15, and at the same time will be available on select cable and Internet platforms.

The teens' objective is to use their seemingly boring club no one will want to join where they can hang out and just be themselves without enduring the fitting in struggle of virtually everyone's high school experience.  Their goal is to find out who they really are.

The movie's hero is gay - a gay athlete in love with the captain of the football team, who also is gay? This is not to mineralize the conflict in this film: the team captain in fact struggles to reconcile his sexual orientation with his "identity" as a school jock. In the 90's, the film might have centered on the jock's struggling to find acceptance in a narrow-minded community, it's now about accepting yourself. The filmmakers have said they were not making a film to that shocked or enraged, but one that entertained.  They hope to define the new normal in teen life.

This is story about a teen group who step out of the box to be themselves. You should definitely step into a theater to enjoy yourself.