An Introduction

The New Guy was a teen comedy released in 2002. The movie is about a high school geek Dizzy Gillespie Harrison. Dizzy is an unpopular band geek that goes though an extremely embarrassing situation the first day of senior year. In an attempt to make a new identity for himself, Dizzy gets himself expelled from his high school, learns how to be cool and give "the look" from a prison inmate. He then enrolls at a new high school under the alias Gil Harris. He makes new friends and soon gains respect from jocks, cheerleaders and geeks alike, uniting a once divided school and greatly improving its football team. Eventually, Gil has to face his demons from his old school when they face each other in a football game.