History Film / Hollidaysburg

A 2014 coming-of-age indie film, the debut of writer/director Anna Martemucci (now known professionally as A.M. Lukas). In [[ThePlace Hollidaysburg, Pennsylvania]] (a central PA suburb of Altoona), a group of high school friends reunite during a Thanksgiving break from their college classes. Former prom king and college freshman Scott is dumped in the middle of sex by his girlfriend Heather, who seems to be having a mental health crisis, and strikes up an unlikely friendship with Tori, a former wallflower emerging from the shadow of her high school best friend Katie. Though as the two warm up to each other and embark on some wacky antics, their relationship starts to turn into something deeper.

The process of this movie being made was documented on the SetBehindTheScenes RealityShow ''Series/TheChair2014'' on Creator/{{Starz}}, where Martemucci played the role of the traditionally trained film school student competing against Website/YouTube star WebVideo/ShaneDawson to make a movie from the same script. This film ended up OvershadowedByControversy that, despite unanimous agreement from film critics and professionals that Martemucci made the better movie -- and Dawson's film ''Film/NotCool'' being so offensive Creator/ZacharyQuinto withdrew his executive producer credit from it -- ''Not Cool'' won the popular vote by a landslide.

This film has gotten renewed attention as of 2020 as a result of people revisiting Dawson's career and ''The Chair'' after Dawson's "cancellation" as scandals from his past resurfaced. Most fans of ''The Chair'' agree ''Hollidaysburg'' SugarWiki/NeedsMoreLove and deserves to be talked about as its own thing outside of comparisons to ''Not Cool'', especially since the experience of ''The Chair'' drove Martemucci into a minor CreatorBreakdown a year later (leading to her changing her stage name).

* YourApprovalFillsMeWithShame: Mitch, who reassures Heather she's making the right decision by telling her about his adventures in life after he dropped out of college -- including going to prison and joining a cult. It's implied this does, in fact, change her mind about dropping out, at least for now.

* LoveDodecahedron: Scott and Heather are the former OfficialCouple who just broke up. Heather rebounds with Scott's best friend Petroff -- causing drama between the two of them -- while Scott rebounds with former high school nobody Tori, who used to idolize Heather and want to be her. This dredges up jealousy from Tori's best friend and Scott's ex Katie, even though Katie broke up with Scott years ago. [[spoiler: This turns out to be because Katie has been nursing a cush on Tori herself for years.]]

A 2014 coming-of-age indie film, the debut of writer/director Anna Martemucci (now known professionally as A.M. Lukas). In [[ThePlace Hollidaysburg, Pennsylvania]] (a central PA suburb of Altoona), a group of high school friends reunite during a Thanksgiving break from their college classes. Former prom king and college freshman Scott is dumped in the middle of sex by his girlfriend Heather, who seems to be having a mental health crisis, and strikes an unlikely friendship with Tori, a former wallflower emerging from the shadow of her high school best friend Katie. Though as the two warm up to each other and embark on some wacky antics, their relationship starts to turn into something deeper.

* LoveDodecahedron: Scott and Heather are the former OfficialCouple who just broke up. Heather rebounds with Scott's best friend Petroff -- causing drama between the two of them -- while Scott rebounds with former high school nobody Tori, who used to idolize Heather and want to be her. This dredges up jealousy from Tori's best friend and Scott's ex Katie, even though Katie broke up with Scott years ago. [[spoiler: This turns out to be because Katie has been [[SuddenlySexuality nursing a crush on Tori herself]] for years.]]

* SuddenlySexuality: [[spoiler: Katie, whose drunken jealous rant about how upset she is that Tori has abandoned her as a friend ends with a ForcefulKiss.]]

* {{Adorkable}}: All the characters have their moments, but Tori and Scott especially -- Tori is the more self-deprecating wallflower version of this trope, while Scott is a gregarious and extroverted goofball.

* AuthorAvatar: For fans of ''The Chair'', it's hard not to see this version of Tori (who is very, very different from the character in Dan Schoffer's original screenplay ''How Soon Is Now'') as one for creator Anna Martemucci -- sensitive, {{Adorkable}}, and [[ExtremeDoormat struggling with standing up for herself and her own desires]] against both her enemies and the people she loves and relies on.

* RopeBridge: Scott and Tori have an {{Adorkable}} moment during their "field trip" where they dare each other to cross a very long and shaky one of these. (Viewers of ''The Chair'' will note that this was [[TruthInTelevision Truth in Cinema]] -- hashing out the safety and liability issues of filming this scene was a big problem for Anna's shoot.)

* FieryRedhead: Katie, who's a highly negative example of this trope.

* WildTeenParty: A couple, but played more realistically and low-key than a typical teen comedy; even at their rowdiest the parties mostly just feature people talking on the couch.

* AdaptationalSexuality: This movie changes Tori's older sister Marissa and her fiancé Gil from the original screenplay into a lesbian couple, Angela and Courtney, and [[AdaptationalHeroism makes them much more sympathetic characters]] along the way. This was possibly to avoid UnfortunateImplications of [[keeping TheReveal that Janie/Katie is a lesbian from the screenplay while also making her a much more unlikable character and showing the reveal in a much more negative context]].