The DUFF Full Movie Download

A high school senior instigates a social pecking order revolution after finding out that she has been labeled the DUFF - Designated Ugly Fat Friend - by her prettier, more popular counterparts.

Director: Ari Sandel
Writers: Josh A. Cagan (screenplay), Kody Keplinger (novel)
Stars: Mae Whitman, Bella Thorne, Robbie Amell |

Storyline

Bianca is a content high school senior whose world is shattered when she learns the student body knows her as 'The DUFF' (Designated Ugly Fat Friend) to her prettier, more popular friends. Now, despite the words of caution from her favorite teacher, she puts aside the potential distraction of her crush, Toby, and enlists Wesley, a slick but charming jock, to help reinvent herself. To save her senior year from turning into a total disaster, Bianca must find the confidence to overthrow the school's ruthless label maker Madison and remind everyone that no matter what people look or act like, we are all someone's DUFF

The DUFF User Reviews

"The DUFF" will be to this generation of teens what "Clueless" or "The Breakast Club" was to their parents.
1 March 2015 | by CleveMan66 (United States) – See all my reviews

Every decade has two or three great teen angst movies that seem to encapsulate what it's like to be a high schooler at that particular point in the evolution of American culture. The 1970s saw "Grease" and "American Graffiti" deal with the 50s and 60s (even while speaking to the teens of the 70s). The 80s had "Fast Times at Ridgemont High" and "The Breakfast Club" (among others). The 90s had "Clueless" and "American Pie". The 2000s had "Superbad" and "Mean Girls", and the 2010s have had "The Perks of Being a Wallflower" and now, "The DUFF" (PG-13, 1:41).

What all these movies have in common is the portrayal of teenagers walking that fine line between needing to be socially accepted on some level and trying to be themselves, even as they're still figuring out who that is exactly. When one of these movies comes out, adults often dismiss it as "just another teen movie" (which also became the title of a movie, albeit a spoof). Critical adults often fail to realize that they had a movie that defined their generation and probably still love – and that the current generation of young adults needs THEIR movie to help them see that what they're going through is tough on everyone – and that it will pass. "The DUFF" fulfills that role quite well for our current decade.

"Jess has the hottest ass." "Casey has the hottest rack." "Bianca has… the hottest friends." That exchange between two adolescent boys watching a trio of friends walk down the hall of their high school pretty much sums up what "The Duff" is all about – attractive friends hanging out with a less-attractive friend who everyone approaches for dating intel about the other two. "DUFF" stands for "Designated Ugly Fat Friend". Now, the DUFF isn't necessarily ugly or fat, but IS less desirable than his or her friends and makes those friends seem even more desirable than they already are. DUFFs are unwitting gatekeepers, liaisons of sorts between their more popular friends and others who want to get closer to those friends. In other words, DUFF is modern shorthand for the "wannabes" or "also-rans" among today's teenagers.

The DUFF that "The Duff" centers around is Bianca Piper (Mae Whitman from the long-running TV series "Parenthood"). She is portrayed as the DUFF of her two best friends, Jess (Skyler Samuels) and Casey (Bianca A. Santos). Bianca doesn't even know the term DUFF until her long-time next door neighbor and popular captain of the football team Wesley (Robbie Amell) mentions it and then has to explain it to her. Bianca doesn't take the news well. But after a little classic denial, anger, bargaining and depression as she works through her grief over the loss of the comfortable niche she has carved out for herself, she arrives at acceptance – but only a transitional acceptance. She wants Wes to help her un-DUFF (or is it de-DUFF? Ex-DUFF?). Regardless, Wes puts her through a "program" of sorts (that he makes up as he goes) in exchange for some much-needed tutoring in science.

Besides the main conflict of Bianca versus her DUFF-ness, there are several strong narrative threads running through the film. Bianca has a big crush on Toby (Nick Eversman), the school's apparently soulful guitar player and song writer. Bianca's mother (Allison Janney) needs to transition from self-absorbed self-help celebrity to caring and helpful mom. Bianca is increasingly tormented by the school's designated mean girl and self-described "future reality star" Madison (Bella Thorne) and her video documenting minion Caitlyn (Rebecca Weil). Lastly, Bianca has hanging over her head a dreaded assignment from her school newspaper's faculty adviser (Ken Jeong) to write an article on what homecoming means to her. This practically forces her to go to a dance that she never wanted to attend in the first place, much less in the light of the disaster that her life has become.

"The Duff" isn't a new story, but it captures what it's like to be a high school student in the second decade of the 21st century and entertains in the process. Wes' attempted transformation of Bianca has its roots in the now century-old story of "Pygmalion", this film is itself an adaptation of Kody Keplinger's 2010 book of the same name and the movie borrows heavily from its teen cinematic predecessors. In fact, the opening line of the movie is a nod to the closing line in "The Breakfast Club". While it subtly stakes a claim to that film's legacy, this movie immediately sets out on its own to update those old stories and tropes for this generation – and it works – mostly. Whitman is adorable and effective in the title role. She's also very funny – as is Jeong and Romany Malco as the square, but well-meaning school principal, plus, to a lesser extent, Chris Wylde as the science teacher. The film also may be a bit predictable, but it throws in enough minor curve balls and makes the proceedings entertaining and fresh enough to create its own legacy. As realistic as the core story feels, the movie does sacrifice some realism by overplaying the self-absorption of the mean characters, underplaying the reactions of the protagonists and allowing some of the story's details to become a bit far-fetched. (There's no way that a school administration would get away with or even try confiscating all the students' cell phones – and Madison's designated documentarian seems to have an omnipresence that would make any god jealous.) "The Duff" may not be the all-time strongest entry into the sub-genre of teen angst movies, but I believe it will stand the test of time. I can think of at least one person who won't be happy about that, but the former star of "Lizzie McGuire" is just going to have to deal with it. That's life. And so is "The Duff", at least for this generation of teens. "B+"