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"Beware The Gonzo," which premiered at the ninth-annual Tribeca Film Festival, is the angsty, funny story of a young prep school student who models himself on the late gonzo journalist Hunter S. Thompson. The student is portrayed by Ezra Miller.

"Hunter S. Thompson is a big part of my life and psychology and my art," says Miller. "I'm a huge, huge admirer and [I'd] do anything that paid any sort of homage to that major part of myself. [I'm] playing a character who has even a bigger part of him [filled with] gonzo spirit and gonzo philosophy. That's what this film will always be about for me."

Jesse McCartney, who plays the jock who gives the gonzo journalist a hard time, is living out a high school fantasy.

McCartney: I was not quite a nerd, I guess you could say, but definitely somewhere in the middle. I got lost in the crowd.

George Whipple: Does this fulfill a lifelong fantasy of playing a jock?

McCartney: It does, it absolutely does.

Bryan Goluboff directed the film.

"Being a teenager is an incredibly intense time in your life and it's a time when you change, when you make big changes about how you deal with the world and yourself," says Goluboff. "And people will remember when they were young and crazy, because writing this and directing this, that's what I remember."

Actor Zoe Kravitz, the daughter of singer-songwriter Lenny Kravitz, partied through the flick.

"We had a full-on dance party in the middle of the day in an empty school room," says Kravitz. "They walked in to tell someone they had to go to set, and it was dark and blasting hip hop and we were all dancing and they were like, 'You need to get out a little more.'"

If you live long enough, the strangest things happen. A new generation of actors and directors are looking back to the '60s and '70s for inspiration, and in particular to Hunter S. Thompson, who was a friend of yours truly.