History Film / SexEd

''Sex Ed'' is a 2014 SexComedy starring Creator/HaleyJoelOsment as Mr. Cole, an underemployed Education graduate working in a bagel cafe while searching for teaching jobs. Eventually, he stumbles on a part-time job as an after school program supervisor at a secondary school in Tampa, Florida. After realizing that his students are struggling with puberty and desperately lacking an understanding of their own bodies or development, he begins instituting sex education lessons in his classroom, assisted by his roommate and his roommate's girlfriend. However, his efforts are complicated both by his virginity and by tense relations with his students' families: including a stern, conservatively religious PapaWolf and the aggressive, tough guy boyfriend of a student's sister after Mr. Cole develops a mutual infatuation with the sister. While the film contains no small amount of CringeComedy due to the subject matter, all of the characters are nevertheless portrayed with a level of understanding and dignity usually avoided in the genre.

* Hypocrite: Reverend Hamilton turns out to be one when he claims sex education should only be taught at home by parents. When Eddie crashes his A.A. meeting and asks which of the parents have actually talked to their kids about sex, only one of them reluctantly raises their hand-and its not the Reverend.

* MoralGuardians: The father of one of Cole's students successfully lobbied for the school district to not teach sex ed, on the grounds that it is not something students should learn from school, and is one reason why Cole gets fired. [[spoiler: By the end of the movie, Cole convinces him otherwise, and not only gets his job back, but he also gets the opportunity to train other sex ed teachers.]]

* PapaWolf: The strict, Christian minister father of one of Mr. Cole's students becomes overprotective of his son and objects to Mr. Cole's sex education lessons.

* TheTalk: A major theme in the movie involves parents avoiding this, prompting Mr. Cole, in spite of his lack of personal experience, to inform his students of what's going on with them.
* ThisLoserIsYou: At the start of the movie, Mr. Cole is a recent college graduate working dead end jobs to make ends meet and and who is desperate to take any even slightly better work he can get.

* WhatTheHellHero: Mr. Cole's roommate pretty much outright says this after Mr. Cole gets beaten by the boyfriend of his student's sister for going on a date with her, and then following it up by buying the services of a prostitute and promptly being arrested.

* MoralGuardians: The father of one of Cole's students successfully lobbied for the school district to not teach sexed, on the grounds that it is not something students should learn from school, and is one reason why Cole gets fired. [[spoiler: By the end of the movie, Cole convinces him otherwise, and not only gets his job back, but he also trains other sexed teachers.]]

* AnAesop: Sex education needs to be taught in schools or by parents, or kids will learn grossly incorrect information about in online via pornography.

* BittersweetEnding: By the end of the movie, it seems that Cole looks like he is going to work things out with his student's older sister, and has lost his job at the middle school, but then [[spoiler:she dumps him]] and after a [[RousingSpeech rousing speech]] by his landlady [[spoiler:he marches to the middle school, where another of [[MoralGuardian his student's father]] is running an A.A. meeting, and convinces him, and several parents, that sexed is an important part of their kids' education. He succeeds, and is later used to train other sex ed teachers.]]

* BittersweetEnding: By the end of the movie, it seems that Cole looks like he is going to work things out with his student's older sister, and has lost his job at the middle school, but then [[spoiler:she dumps him]] and after a [[RousingSpeech rousing speech]] by his landlord [[spoiler:he marches to the middle school, where another of [[MoralGuardian his student's father]] is running an A.A. meeting, and convinces him, and several parents, that sexed is an important part of their kids' education. He succeeds, and is later used to train other sexed teachers.]]

* BiggerIsBetterInBed: A concern of the main character.

* FirstPeriodPanic: One of the studnents has this, causing Eddie to call Ally, his ex-roomate's girlfriend, to deal with it. This kicks off his plans to teach sex ed.

* WhatTheHellHero: Mr. Cole's roommate pretty much outright says this after Mr. Cole gets beaten by the boyfriend of his student's sister for going on a date with her, and then following it up by buying the services of an illegal sex worker and promptly being arrested.

* BitterSweetEnding: By the end of the movie, it seems that Cole looks like he is going to work things out with his student's older sister, and has lost his job at the middle school, but then [[spoiler:she dumps him]] and after a [[RousingSpeech rousing speech]] by his landlord [[spoiler:he marches to the middle school, where another of [[MoralGuardian his student's father]] is running an A.A. meeting, and convinces him, and several parents, that sexed is an important part of their kids' education. He succeeds, and is later used to train other sexed teachers.]]

''Sex Ed'' is a 2014 SexComedy starring HaleyJoelOsment as Mr. Cole, an underemployed Education graduate working in a bagel cafe while searching for teaching jobs. Eventually, he stumbles on a part-time job as an after school program supervisor at a secondary school in Tampa, Florida. After realizing that his students are struggling with puberty and desperately lacking an understanding of their own bodies or development, he begins instituting sex education lessons in his classroom, assisted by his roommate and his roommate's girlfriend. However, his efforts are complicated both by his virginity and by tense relations with his students' families: including a stern, conservatively religious PapaWolf and the aggressive, tough guy boyfriend of a student's sister after Mr. Cole develops a mutual infatuation with the sister. While the film contains no small amount of CringeComedy due to the subject matter, all of the characters are nevertheless portrayed with a level of understanding and dignity usually avoided in the genre.

* ActorAllusion: HaleyJoelOsment plays a character whose last name is the same as the first name of the character whom he first became famous for playing.