Herpes Boy

(2009)

★ 4.8 IMDb · 158 votes

Genres: Comedy

Year: 2009

Runtime: 85 мин

Country: United States of America

Director: Nathaniel Atcheson

Cast: Byron Lane, Ана О’Райли, Бет Грант, Zack Silva, Julianna McCarthy, Michael Chieffo, Октавия Спенсер, Larry Weissman, Брайан Джордан Альварес, Leif Holt

Plot

A social outcast with a facial birthmark finds his world flipped upside down after he posts videos of his quirky life onto the Internet and becomes an unwilling cyber-celebrity.

Rudolph Murray hates his life. He has a large purple birthmark on his upper lip and everyday he finds someone staring, pointing, or calling him names-like Herpes Boy. He makes videos for the Internet in which he rants about his quirky life and zany family, including his New Age mother, emotionally distant father, and grumpy grandmother. When his "actress-slash-model-slash-dancer" cousin re-edits his videos to make herself more popular, it attracts a huge new audience and makes Rudolph an unlikely-and unwilling-cyber-celebrity at the worst possible time in his life.