Sex Drive

Ian, (JOSH ZUCKERMAN), who lives in the suburbs of Chicago, is still a virgin.

He secretly adores his best female friend, Felicia, (AMANDA CREW), but she resists his shy advances, so, with the encouragement of Lance, (CLARK DUKE), he decides to borrow the prized vintage Pontiac GTO belonging to his overbearing, homophobic brother Rex,(JAMES MARSDEN), to drive 500 miles to Knoxville where a girl he met through the net, Ms Tasty, has promised she’ll go all the way with him if he meets her.

Essentially, this is a re-working of the excellent 1985 Rob Reiner film, THE SURE THING, and while it’s not on the same level as that, it’s often surprisingly funny.

A lot of the jokes and situations are crude, as you’d probably expect from this kind of movie, but the film works as a bit of a guilty pleasure because the three central performances are so good.

JOSH ZUCKERMAN is really quite sweet as the painfully shy Ian and AMANDA CREW is excellent as Felicia who thinks she loves him but doesn’t want to spoil their friendship.

The film is very successful at depicting this all too common and, for teenagers, difficult situation. The third good performance is that of
CLARK DUKE as the seemingly nerdy but actually quite self-confident Lance, and there’s strong support from JAMES MARSDEN as Ian’s horrid big brother and SETH GREEN as an Amish farmer with an interesting approach to life.