Max goes to college, but to his embarassment his father loses his job and goes to his son's campus.

When a girl's friend is killed by a college hazing, she is the only one who can find out the truth.

When Max makes a preposterous promise to a girl he has a crush on, his chances to fulfilling it seem hopeless when he is dragged onto a cross-country trip with his embarrassing father, Goofy.

The biography of Ron Kovic. Paralyzed in the Vietnam war, he becomes an anti-war and pro-human rights political activist after feeling betrayed by the country for which he fought.