Behaving Badly (film)

Behaving Badly
Theatrical release poster
Directed byTim Garrick
Screenplay by
  • Tim Garrick
  • Scott Russell
Based onWhile I'm Dead Feed the Dog
by Ric Browde
Produced by
Starring
CinematographyMathew Rudenberg
Edited byMatt Friedman
Music byDavid Newman
Production
companies
  • Mad Chance
  • Starboard Entertainment
Distributed byVertical Entertainment
Release date
  • August 1, 2014 (2014-08-01)
Running time
96 minutes
CountryUnited States
LanguageEnglish
Box office$422,697[1]

Behaving Badly is a 2014 American teen sex comedy film written and directed by Tim Garrick, which is the film adaptation of the 2000 Ric Browde autobiographical novel While I'm Dead Feed the Dog. It stars Nat Wolff and Selena Gomez alongside Mary-Louise Parker, Elisabeth Shue, Heather Graham, Jason Lee, Dylan McDermott and Cary Elwes. The movie was released on video-on-demand on July 1, 2014, before a theatrical release on August 1, 2014.[2]

Teenager Rick Stevens (Nat Wolff), has a crush on Nina Pennington (Selena Gomez). When Rick realizes that Nina broke up with her boyfriend Kevin Carpenter (Austin Stowell) he makes his move. He places a bet with Karlis Malinauskas (Nate Hartley), a mobster's son, that he will have sex with Nina before Arbor Day, leading to a serious chain of events from having sex with his best friend's mom (Elisabeth Shue), to having almost the whole town in jail, including Nina.

  1. ^ "Behaving Badly". Box Office Mojo/CBS Interactive. Retrieved May 23, 2020.
  2. ^ Matheson, Whitney (June 27, 2014). "Photos: See Mary-Louise Parker and others in Behaving Badly". USA Today. Retrieved July 4, 2014.