The basic premise of Harold is this: American Pie goes bald. That's right: Bald. See, the concept is basically that a guy named Harold (Spencer Breslin, brother of Abigail) is sort of a dork. And, as is the case in every teenage movie, "sort of" means more than anyone you've ever seen in your life. He gets up in front of class and his teacher (Rachel Dratch) makes him introduce himself, and then she makes him take off his hat. This is the point where the trailer music comes to a screeching halt and we see that Harold has a seriously early case of male-pattern baldness. So, he's a 14-year-old who looks like a geezer. Not merely old enough to buy beer, mind you, but old enough that the guy selling him said beer wonders if he's eligible for the senior discount. You might think this is a one-note joke, but the movie also contains jokes about rectal exams (specifically, Harold tells his mom his day was about as fun as a rectal exam and then we flash to Harold actually being given a rectal exam, courtesy of Fred Willard), and jokes about molestation (Harold assures his mom that janitor Cuba Gooding Jr. didn't touch him in his "swim suit area"), and penis jokes (when he tells an old woman who's hitting on him that he's 14, her response is "That's big!"). In other words, it's a whole movie of nothing but jokes about baldness and/or male nether regions. Do with that information what you will.
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