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''SexEd'' 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.

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''SexEd'' ''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.

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* JerkJock: The main character, Mr. Cole, is confronted by one at the beginning of the movie. Averted with his jockish, but generally friendly roommate.



* TheInternetIsForPorn: At the A.A. meeting [[spoiler: Cole convinces reverend Hamilton, and several other parents in attendance, that if Sex-ed isn't taught in school, and if parents are too embarrassed to have TheTalk with their own kids, then they will go to the internet where boys will learn that its okay to treat girls like sex objects, and girls will learn that its ok to be treated like that.]]
* JerkJock: The main character, Mr. Cole, is confronted by one at the beginning of the movie. Averted with his jockish, but generally friendly roommate.



* TheInternetIsForPorn: At the A.A. meeting [[spoiler: Cole convinces reverend Hamilton, and several other parents in attendance, that if Sex-ed isn't taught in school, and if parents are too embarrassed to have TheTalk with their own kids, then they will go to the internet where boys will learn that its okay to treat girls like sex objects, and girls will learn that its ok to be treated like that.]]
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* TheInternetIsForPorn: At the A.A. meeting [[spoiler: Cole convinces reverend Hamilton, and several other parents in attendance, that if Sex-ed isn't taught in school, and if parents are too embarrassed to have TheTalk with their own kids, then they will go to the internet where boys will learn that its okay to treat girls like sex objects, and girls will learn that its ok to be treated like that.]]
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* AManIsNotAVirgin: Subverted. Mr. Cole confesses his virginity near the end of the movie, but it actually factors into him eventually earning the respect of his students and their families.

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* 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 sex ed is an important part of their kids' education. He succeeds, and is later used to train other sex ed teachers.]]
* JadedWashout: The main character's burnt out supervisor, who has turned to on-the-job alcoholism, complaining about his ex-wife, and making inappropriate small talk about sex acts during work is even credited as "Washout".

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* 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 sex ed sexed is an important part of their kids' education. He succeeds, and is later used to train other sex ed sexed teachers.]]
* JadedWashout: The main character's burnt out supervisor, who has turned to on-the-job alcoholism, complaining about his ex-wife, and making inappropriate small talk about sex acts during work is even credited as "Washout". "Washout".
* 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.]]
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* 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 sex ed is an important part of their kids' education. He succeeds, and is later used to train other sex ed teachers.]]
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* AmbiguousTimePeriod: Averted. Since the kids are in school uniforms as opposed to fashionable clothes, it's easy to think this movie takes place in the late nineties or 00s...until an almost throwaway line about Snapchatting dick-pics, instantly establishing that the movie takes place after the app's invention.
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* 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.
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* JadedWashout: The main character's burnt out supervisor, who has turned to on-the-job alcoholism, complaining about his ex-wife, and making inappropriate small talk about sex acts during work is even credited as "Washout".
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''SexEd'' 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.

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''SexEd'' 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.
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* ThisLoserIsYou: At the start of the movie, Mr. Cole is a recent college graduate working dead-end jobs to make ends meet who is willing to take any even slightly better work he can get.
* ViceCity: Tampa's Ybor City district forms much of the film's backdrop.

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* ThisLoserIsYou: At the start of the movie, Mr. Cole is a recent college graduate working dead-end dead end jobs to make ends meet and and who is willing desperate to take any even slightly better work he can get.
* ViceCity: Tampa's infamously decadent and hedonistic Ybor City district forms much of the film's backdrop.
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* ThisLoserIsYou: At the start of the movie, Mr. Cole is a recent college graduate working dead-end jobs to make ends meet who is willing to take any even slightly better work he can get.
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* AManIsNotAVirgin: Subverted. Mr. Cole confesses his virginity near the end of the movie, but it actually factors into him eventually earning the respect of his students and their families.
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* AnatomicallyImpossibleSex: Talked about a great deal by Mr. Cole's very confused students.
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* 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.
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''SexEd'' 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 whom he develops a mutual infatuation with.

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''SexEd'' 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 whom he after Mr. Cole develops a mutual infatuation with.
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''SexEd'' 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 a student whose sister he develops a mutual infatuation with.

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''SexEd'' 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 whose student's sister whom he develops a mutual infatuation with.
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* WhatTheHellHero: Mr. Cole's roommate pretty much outright says this after Mr. Cole gets beaten by the brother 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.

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* WhatTheHellHero: Mr. Cole's roommate pretty much outright says this after Mr. Cole gets beaten by the brother 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.
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* OfCourseI'mNotAVirgin: The main character's explanation of his sexual history.

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* OfCourseI'mNotAVirgin: OfCourseImNotAVirgin: The main character's explanation of his sexual history.
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* OfCourseI'mNotAVirgin: The main character's explanation of his sexual history.
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''SexEd'' 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 by tense relations with his students' families: including a stern, conservatively religious father and a student whose sister he develops a mutual infatuation with.

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''SexEd'' 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 father PapaWolf and a student whose sister he develops a mutual infatuation with.
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* 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.
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''SexEd'' 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 and 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 by tense relations with his students' families: including a stern, conservatively religious father and a student whose sister he develops a mutual infatuation with.

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''SexEd'' 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 and 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 by tense relations with his students' families: including a stern, conservatively religious father and a student whose sister he develops a mutual infatuation with.
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''SexEd'' is a 2014 SexComedy starring HaleyJoelOsment as 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 and 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 by tense relations with his students' families: including a stern, conservatively religious father and a student whose sister he develops a mutual infatuation with.

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''SexEd'' 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 and 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 by tense relations with his students' families: including a stern, conservatively religious father and a student whose sister he develops a mutual infatuation with.
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* ViceCity: Tampa's Ybor City district forms much of the film's backdrop.

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* ViceCity: Tampa's Ybor City district forms much of the film's backdrop.backdrop.
* WhatTheHellHero: Mr. Cole's roommate pretty much outright says this after Mr. Cole gets beaten by the brother 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.
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* SassyBlackWoman: The main character's landlady and bartender of his most frequent chill spot is a sarcastic African-American woman who provides him comforting advice.

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* SassyBlackWoman: The main character's landlady and bartender of his most frequent chill spot is a sarcastic African-American woman who provides him comforting advice.advice.
* ViceCity: Tampa's Ybor City district forms much of the film's backdrop.
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* JerkJock: The main character, Mr. Cole, is confronted by one at the beginning of the movie. Averted with his jockish, but generally friendly roommate.
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* AllGaysArePromiscuous: Discussed by the main character's supervisor.
* BiggerIsBetterInBed: A concern of the main character.
* NerdsAreVirgins: A trait of the main character.
* SassyBlackWoman: The main character's landlady and bartender of his most frequent chill spot is a sarcastic African-American woman who provides him comforting advice.
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''SexEd'' is a 2014 SexComedy starring HaleyJoelOsment as 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 and 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 by tense relations with his students' families: including a stern, conservatively religious father and a student whose sister he develops a mutual infatuation with.

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