Think about your life now. What’s going on with it? What’s the best thing? What’s the worst thing?
Who is one person that you’ve met that totally turned your life upside down and you were never the same?
For Natalie, that person was Keith.
I was up late organizing my room after moving back with my parents. I typed in Netflix’s address and the first suggestion for a movie was “Keith”. Upon reading the summary for the film I thought I’d give it a chance, but I’m glad I did because it’s one of the best films I’ve seen in a while.
The plot is easy. Popular girl who has everything (looks, sports, grades, boys) gets chosen by this boy to be his lab partner. The teacher says everyone was randomly placed together, but they weren’t. It was all Keith’s doing.
Keith, played by Jesse McCartney, is a strange guy who leaves bowling balls on people’s front steps and likes to create fictional stories that would leave anyone’s head spinning. He’s cocky, has a chip on his shoulder, an outsider and is harboring a secret. His favorite thing is an ancient banana yellow truck.
Natalie gets sucked into this world and it changes everything about her. One meeting to fill out a lab report expands her life in ways she never dreamed before. She wanted to go to Duke on a tennis scholarship and to be an editor of a magazine. She had the good looking boyfriend and perfect grades. She had her entire life mapped out until Keith started arranging meeting times to hang out at 4 a.m., 5 p.m., whenever he felt like it.
They develop a bizarre friendship and later a relationship based on experiences and reactions that are explained at the end of the film. Without giving anything away, I say just watch it.
