
Behaving Badly is a movie directed by Tim Garrick in 2014 and based on the book While I’m Dead… Feed the Dog by Ric Browde, first published in 1997. The movie features Nat Wolff, Selena Gomez, Mary-Louise Parker, Elisabeth Shue, Dylan McDermott, Lachlan Buchanan, and others.
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Storyline
Teenager Rick Stevens, has a crush on Nina Pennington. When Rick realizes that Nina broke up with her boyfriend Kevin Carpenter, he places a bet with Karlis Malinauskas, a mobster’s son, that he will have sex with Nina before Arbor Day, leading to a serious chain of events from having sex with his best friend’s mom, to having almost the whole town in jail, including Nina.
Movie vs Book

Year
2014
Minutes
97
Movie Rate
4.40
Source: IMDb
Movie
Behaving Badly
Director: Tim Garrick
Country: USA
Year: 2014
Length: 1h37m
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Year
1997
Pages
256
Book Rate
7.96
S: Goodreads
Book
While I'm Dead... Feed the Dog
Author: Ric Browde
Country: USA
First published in: 1997
Length: 256 pages
Genre: Fiction
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“When you're adapting a book into a movie, you have to take certain creative liberties to bridge the gap between the two forms of media.”
JOSH HUTCHERSON (Actor)
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