Exclusive: Hilary Duff Gets Rejected in 'Stay Cool'

High school senior Shasta O'Neil (Hilary Duff) has the hots for 30-something author Henry McCarthy (Mark Polish) in an exclusive scene from 'Stay Cool,' in theaters September 16.

The official synopsis:

From Initiate Productions comes raucous and romantic comedy about one man's return home for the commencement speech of a lifetime.

Henry McCarthy (MARK POLISH), the 30-something author of the popular 80s-themed novel How Lionel Got Me Laid, returns to his suburban hometown of Sacramento to deliver the commencement speech at his former high school. Despite his success as an author Henry's return home has sparked all of the youthful dreams, desires and particularly disappointments he's never quite gotten over, specifically his unrequited affection for the girl who is now the local pharmacist: the elusive Scarlet Smith (WINONA RYDER).

Between run-ins with the outcast friends he left behind Big Girl (SEAN ASTIN) and Wino (JOSH HOLLOWAY), the school principal (CHEVY CHASE) and a seductive senior, Shasta O'Neil (HILARY DUFF) who clearly has the hots for him, Henry is sent spinning through a time warp that incites all the old emotions and challenges of the world he grew up in. Teetering between unsettling memories of his teenage past and his all too uncertain adult future, Henry can only hope to "Stay Cool" and make it, once again, to graduation day.

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Film & Animation

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• stay cool
• mark polish
• hilary duff
• comedy
• seduction