Disturbing Behavior

Disturbing Behavior is a 1998 film about the new kid in town who stumbles across something sinister about the town's method of transforming its unruly teens into upstanding citizens.
 * Directed by David Nutter. Written by Scott Rosenberg.

It doesn't matter if you're not perfect. You will be. taglines

Gavin Strick

 * Appropriate sparks are flying, somebody cue the power ballad.
 * Look at him, he's killing his hard-on.
 * The Yogurt Shoppe, Yogurt Shop-e, what the fuck's a Shop-e?
 * [sees Andy Effkin being talked to by police] Andy Effkin toasts with the most.
 * [Blue Ribbons circle around Steve] Ice Ice Baby.
 * It's not like you think. It's a whole new kind of cool. Everything's beautiful, man.

Steve Clark

 * I had no idea the evil was this pervasive.
 * [shouts] You signed me up for the program?
 * Be the ball.

Rachel Wagner

 * Sounds razor.
 * Who put the acid in my Spam?

Dorian Newberry

 * (after throwing Steve out of the boiler room) Wait! You like Kurt Vonnegut?
 * You'd be surprised how interesting people become when they think you're really stupid!
 * I'm getting rid of rats.
 * Hey, teacher! Leave those kids alone!

Lorna Longley

 * Treat yourself.
 * Bad wrong, wrong bad, bad wrong, wrong bad.
 * [Blood running down her face] I have to go home. I've got a big physics test tomorrow.

Others

 * Allen Clark: What're you doing, dipshit? Don't worry about the snakes in your garden when you've got spiders in your bed.
 * Betty Caldicott: Meet the musical little creatures that hide among the flowers.
 * U.V.: I bet you didn't know toast came in 3 flavors.
 * U.V.: Denial ain't just a river in Italy, bud!
 * U.V.: I've got like, two customers left! If this keeps up, I'm going to be the 7-11 guy!
 * Andy Effkin: [snaps Mary Joe's neck] Slut.
 * Dr. Caldicott: Science is God!

Dialogue

 * Gavin: Hello, Lorna. How are you doing today, my dear?
 * Lorna: Drop dead.
 * Gavin: Contact.


 * Gavin: It's a class system here at CB High, Stevie Boy. Check it out. [points to the car enthusiast students] There, you've got your motor heads, car jocks, all the world's a gasket and a lube job and a pack of Lucky's.  Music of choice: Posi-traction overdrive, classic rock, Skynyrd, The Allmans, Bruce. Drug of choice: Beer, Miller Genuine Draft. Keggers can't be choosers.
 * UV: Freaks that fix leaks.
 * Gavin: [points to the nerdy students] Over here you have your microgeeks... nerds, whiz kids and various other bottom feeders. Music of choice: The sound of an Apple PC booting up. Drug of choice: Stephen Hawking's "A Brief History of Time"... and a cup of jasmine tea on a Saturday night.
 * UV: Freaks that go squeak.
 * Gavin: [points to the hippie students] Over there you have your skaters. Riffin', raging kids and their ramp tramps. Baggy pants, Dickie wools, doing 50-50 grinds... with a gnarly grab finish on a homemade half-pipe in the woods. Music of choice: The whack of a hackysack. Drug of choice: Ecstasy, E-tab, baby; longer lovin' through science.
 * UV: Freaks in sneaks.
 * Gavin: Here's where it gets really... nasty. [points to the Blue Ribbons] Lorna runs with that group over there, the Blue Ribbons.
 * Steve: What's that?
 * Gavin: Community group. Good kids.  Have car washes and bake sales and kiss a lot of adult sphincter.
 * U.V.: Blue Robots.
 * Gavin: Hear, hear. Those three guys are Cradle Bay's answer to Manson, McVeigh and O.J.: Trent Whalen, Andy Effkin, Robby Stewart.
 * UV: Hey, I bet you didn't know that toast came in three flavors.
 * Gavin: Music of choice: the hum of perfection, the buzz of ambition. Drug of choice: life, the pursuit of clean living at the expense of all who sniffle at the hem of their gowns.
 * UV: Freaks so chic.
 * Gavin: The you've got kids like me and UV here, those who like their metal heavy, their Marlboro's light. Music of choice...
 * Gavin and UV: "Harvester of sorrow, language of the mad."
 * Gavin: Drug of choice: what have you got?
 * UV: Freaks all week!
 * [Bell rings]
 * Gavin: That's it. Lesson over.  Class dismembered.  Welcome to Cradle Bay High, Stevie Boy.  Welcome to my nightmare.


 * Steve: Tell me, Shannon, do you get yelled at when you talk about your dead grandfather?
 * Nathan: Steve...
 * Steve : 'Cause around here, people go crazy if you talk about a dead brother.


 * Gavin: Rachel, this is Stevie Boy-good man. Stevie Boy, this is Rachel-Cooks Ridge trash.
 * Rachel: [disgusted] Bite me.


 * Gavin: Hello Charles, cycle any anabolic goodies lately?
 * Chug: You're funny, Strick.
 * Gavin: Thanks, I'm here all week.
 * Chug: [to Rachel] Anyways Rachel, there's a couple of us guys going to the Yogurt Shoppe later if you wanna come by...
 * Gavin: The Yogurt Shoppe? Yeah! [to Steve] You wanna make an "active culture" joke here, Stevie Boy, or should I handle this one?


 * Steve: [after seeing Chug in a fight] What was that about?
 * Rachel: Toxic jock syndrome.


 * Gavin: No, it is not bullshit, and it wasn't steroids!
 * Rachel: [annoyed] Here we go...
 * Steve: What?
 * Rachel: Gavin thinks some sinister force has taken over the Cradle Bay meatheads.
 * Gavin: No, you know what it is! You know!
 * Steve: A sinister force?
 * Rachel: You know, evil. Nowhere to turn, no one to trust, altogether ooky.


 * Gavin: Mr. Newberry here has got the full-on Boo Radley, village idiot, Quasimoto thing going, don't you Mr. Newb?
 * Dorian: What?
 * Gavin: And he's currently involved in a war against the rodent population of Cradle Bay.


 * Dickie Atkinson the Mechanic: You had friends in Chicago?
 * Steve: [awkwardly] Yeah.
 * Lorna: You can have friends here.


 * Gavin: Look at this place: the Yogurt Shoppe... the Yogurt "Shop-e". What the fuck is a "Shop-e"?
 * Randi: Why don't you make like a tree and leave?
 * Gavin: Clever girl.


 * Chug: Will you go out with me?
 * Rachel: [laughs] You're kidding, right? [seriously] No, Chug, I won't.
 * Chug: WHY NOT?!


 * Rachel: Just tell me you have a really razor plan?
 * Steve: I am making this shit up as I go.


 * Dorian: Evening, Officer!
 * Officer Cox: What are you doing?
 * Dorian: Oh, I'm getting rid of rats! The pink-eyed vermin can't see for spit!


 * [after Steve begs for the family to head back to Chicago, Dr. Caldicott steps inside the Clark house]
 * Dr. Caldicott: Steven, you are home. Cradle Bay is where you belong, here with your family.
 * Steve: [realizing he's been betrayed by his mother and father] You signed me up for the program?
 * Cynthia: We want what's best for you.
 * Steve: [screaming] What about what I want??!!
 * Dr. Caldicott: Steven, do you really like the way you feel?
 * Steve: Oh, shut the fuck up! [to his parents] You sold me out.
 * Cynthia: No, we didn't! We just want you back!
 * Nathan: Steven, please...
 * Steve: [shouting] "Steve!" My name is "Steve", OK?! Nobody calls me "Steven" except for them!


 * [U.V. isn't sure if Steve Clark is now one of the Blue Ribbons]
 * U.V.: Hey, man, not so fast! What's the capital of North Dakota?
 * Steve: How the fuck should I know?
 * U.V.: All right, you're cool.


 * Steve: What're you doing?
 * Dorian: We can't very well let these shitbirds go off and graduate into the world, can we?
 * Steve: Maybe they can be helped!
 * Dorian: No, they can't... And neither can I! [shows the gunshot wound to his stomach] Do good things, lunch boy.


 * Steve: It's over, you son of a bitch. It's finished.
 * Dr. Caldicott: "Finished"? There'll always be other towns. Other troubled teens. Other troubled parents. Science is God!

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 * [U.V. shoots Gavin to prevent him from shooting Rachel and Steve]
 * Gavin: [falls to the ground, bleeding] Three times? You had to shoot me three times?
 * U.V.: [voice breaking] Sorry, man.
 * Gavin: Wow. I get to say to my twisted family... I guess this diminishes my chances of ever meeting Trent Reznor...Wow, I guess I'm finally coming around...
 * Note: This was a deleted scene.

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 * Rachel: What happened?
 * Steve: We're the only ones left.
 * Rachel: So what do we do now?
 * Steve: We go home.
 * Rachel: Where's that?
 * Steve: Wherever. Wherever we are.

Taglines

 * It doesn't matter if you're not perfect. You will be.
 * You'll never be the same.
 * In Cradle Bay... there's nothing more frightening than perfection.

Cast

 * James Marsden - Steve Clark
 * Katie Holmes - Rachel Wagner
 * Nick Stahl - Gavin Strick
 * Steve Railsback - Officer Cox
 * Bruce Greenwood - Dr. Edgar Caldicott
 * William Sadler - Dorian Newberry
 * Chad Donella - U.V.
 * Ethan Embry - Allen Clark
 * Katharine Isabelle - Lindsay Clark
 * A.J. Buckley - Charles 'Chug' Roman
 * Crystal Cass - Lorna Longley
 * Tygh Runyan - Dickie Atkinson
 * Tobias Mehler - Andy Effkin
 * Derek Hamilton - Trent Whalen
 * P.J. Prinsloo - Robby Stewart