Youth in Revolt

Youth in Revolt (2009) is a coming-of-age comedy you can watch online on iFILM, directed by Miguel Arteta and starring Michael Cera as Nick Twisp — a bookish, Camus-reading teen who falls hard for Sheeni, the one interesting girl in an otherwise forgettable trailer park summer.

Sheeni is already dating someone. Nick has no money, no confidence and no plan. So his brain conjures a second self — a reckless alter ego named François who's fully prepared to commit arson, lie to everyone, and blow up whatever it takes to win her over. The scheme escalates from mildly illegal to genuinely spectacular, with Portia Doubleday, Steve Buscemi and Zach Galifianakis caught in the wreckage.

Adapted from C.D. Payne's cult novel, the film keeps the book's sharp black-comic edge. Cera was operating at peak awkward-teenager frequency here — it's the role that fit him better than almost anything else from that era. Stream Youth in Revolt (2009) on iFILM.