The New Guy

DJ Qualls plays Dizzy Harrison, a nerdy high school senior who enrolls at a new school after getting expelled, with the help of a prison inmate, and transforms into the "cool" Gil Harris, winning over the school and dating the head cheerleader, Eliza Dushku's Character Name (Eliza Dushku). As he navigates his new identity, he inspires the school's football team to win and breaks down the cliques, but his antics on the sidelines cost his new team the state championship.