Archie's Final Project
Archie's Final Project (also known by its original title My Suicide) is a 2009 American comedy-drama film produced and directed by David Lee Miller and written by Miller, Eric J. Adams, and Gabriel Sunday, who also served as second unit director, additional camera operator, and music editor along with starring in, co-editing, and co-producing the film. It won the best feature film prize for the 2009 Berlin International Film Festival's youth film section Generation 14plus. Music producers Jimmy Iovine and Polly Anthony and actor Harold Ramis served as executive producers, It received a limited theatrical release in the United States on September 23, 2011, and was released to home media on December 6, 2011.
Plot
Archibald Holden Buster "Archie" Williams (Gabriel Sunday) begins his film (rife with cutaway gags and Archie imitating famous movie quotes) by discussing his upbringing in a typical upper-middle-class suburb, and lamenting that he is a porn-addicted virgin. When asked by his film teacher Mr. Bedford (Kurtis Bedford) what the subject of his class final will be, Archie dryly tells him that he plans to commit suicide on camera. Per school policy, Archie is sent to the counselor Mrs. Ellis (Sandy Martin) and soon taken into police custody for giving sardonic answers to her questions. Most of Archie's peers witness him being handcuffed outside by a Ventura County Sheriff, including his crush Sierra Silver (Brooke Nevin). Archie's mother Gretchen (Nora Dunn), a lawyer and local activist, along with his father Daryl (Robert Kurcz), a football quarterback-turned-El Pollo Loco franchisee, also arrive at the scene and make a failed attempt to persuade the sheriff to let him go. Archie is placed on a 72-hour psychiatric hold, where he repeatedly calls his social worker a "cunt" until he is exasperated enough to approve Archie's return to school. Upon returning home, Archie gets in an argument with his parents about them and the police having searched his bedroom/film studio in the family's pool house.