Everyone’s favorite Oscar-nominated 11 year old is back on the big screen! That’s right, THR reports that Haley Joel Osment, the young man with a name that’d make a country singer cringe and who’s most remembered for films such as “The Sixth Sense” and… well, okay, only “The Sixth Sense,” has joined the new comedy “Sex Ed,” directed by first time-feature director Isaac Feder.
Osment will portray a “college graduate who dreams of teaching high school Algebra but due to budget restraints, ends up teaching sexual education, despite being a virgin.” Sounds like a film written by a Kevin Smith character. Osment is not alone, though, and will take to a “mentor in a blues bar,” discover a “ruthless enemy in the local PTA,” and hey, while he’s at it, fall in love with “a gorgeous Polish girl for whom English is a distant second language.” It sure ain’t algebra, kid. The film sounds a bit juvenile, though it will probably play in a similar tone to the director’s short film “Speed Dating,” found here, which isn’t half bad but a bit too cute and gimmicky. Plus, five bucks to anyone who can make the idea of a virgin teaching sexual education actually funny. Not even the “Meet The Spartans” dudes would touch something like that.
The last time we saw Osment on screen was in the poor 2003 film “Secondhand Lions,” but the last time he was actually in a film was the absolutely dreadful-looking basketball “crime drama” film “Home of the Giants,” done in 2007. You can see the trailer for that below, or you could let us describe it for you in this rundown: 3 guns, 2 punches, 1 Linkin Park song, 0 slam dunks. Watch at your own risk. If this film is any indication of Osment’s current acting ability, his taste in films, or his intelligence, then we are really in for an atrocious mess.
