No, not the semi-reviled explorer! The semi-reviled writer and director! You’ve got a day off, there’s no family celebration, and there’s nothing whatsoever to do…so you might as well spend Columbus Day with Chris Columbus, as he’s got something for everyone. Well, his movies. We understand he’s got plans that day.
Director Chris Columbus, best known for directing the first two Harry Potter films and for writing such classics as Gremlins and Goonies, is trying his luck with high school comedy in I Love You, Beth Cooper starring Hayden Penettiere and Paul Rust. The film is about Buffalo Grove High School valedictorian Denis Cooverman’s (Rust), who has played it safe and made it all the way to graduation without ever breaking curfew, destroying property, consuming too much alcohol, fist fights, fast cars or women of any sort. He has decided to tell the most popular girl in school, Beth Cooper (Panetierre) that he loves her.
Going from big budgets films such as Happy Potter to I Love You, Beth Cooper is quite a change as Columbus notes himself: Continue Reading
