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| “ | His daddy splattered his brains all over the wall! | „ |
| ~ George mocking Marty. |
| “ | Hey! What do you think you're doing?! You're a punk, Sam! I ought to kill you! You f*cking d*ckhead! I told you to never touch my camera! Didn't I?! F*cker! You little wimp! B*tch! Pussy! I told you! I ought to f*cking kill you! And I will kill you, you little punk, if I ever catch you f*cking with my camera again. Get out of my way! | „ |
| ~ George stops Sam when he picks up his camera. |
George Tooney is the main antagonist of the 2004 drama movie Mean Creek.
He is a bully who torments and bullies Sam Merric constantly, however, after he was tricked going on a boat trip with Sam and his friends. George began showing a more affable side of personality, causing the gang to be conflicted with going through with their plan of taking revenge on George.
He is portrayed by Josh Peck in his first villainous role.
Personality[]
Although he is a petty, aggressive boy who suffers from dyslexia, George is capable of being a good person and is mainly a lonely boy who just wants some affection and companionship, but he pushes others away due to his bullying behavior, which he does as a misguided attempt to protect himself from others.
Biography[]
Mean Creek[]
The film begins with George at school filming himself playing basketball, while he plays, a boy named Sam sees George's camera on the ground and picks it up. George sees the kid doing this and gets angry, he assaults Sam in front of the whole school, threatening to kill him if he ever touched his camera again. This leads Sam to tell his older brother, Rocky. Rocky tells it to his best friends, Marty and Clyde, they all are plotting revenge against George.
The next day George is invited by the group to take a boat ride to celebrate Sam's birthday (although it really isn't his birthday) and says to him that he shouldn't tell his mom where he's going, George goes with them for the ride, he presents Sam with a water gun. Throughout the ride, George awkwardly tries to fit in with the group, but the boys make rude and offensive comments. George reveals that he suffers from dyslexia and the group discovers the bully's gentle side.
Rocky, Clyde, Sam and Millie want to put an end to the revenge plan, however Marty refuses to do so. On the boat, Marty suggests that everyone play real or dare (to exact revenge for leaving George naked and alone), Milie says that this kind of game always ends up hurting people's feelings, but George naively accepts it. In the game, George discovers the whole plan when Marty reveals, Sam apologizes, but George refuses to accept it, he becomes enraged and begins to offend Sam, Milie, Clyde including Marty himself, he mentions the suicide of Marty's father to taunt him and Marty gets angry and tries to assault George. George keeps repeating about Marty's father, Rocky gets angry and accidentally pushes him into the lake.
It turns out that George can't swim and starts drowning in the lake while the others watch, the camera ends up hitting George's head and he unconsciously passes out. Rocky saves him too late. The gang takes George's dead body to the surface of the creek, they try to revive George but to no avail, and then they decide to tell the police but Marty refuses to go and tell the truth claiming he doesn't want to be raped in prison and leaves the gang.
Sam, Milie, Rocky, and Clyde go to George's house and tell his mother the whole truth, she tearfully calls the police and investigations begin, George's body is found and his funeral is held. In the final scene, a video on George's camera is shown on the police station's television, George says a little bit about him and his thoughts and that he wants someone to one day find this and know who he really is.
Trivia[]
- The movie has spawned many memes regarding the Nickelodeon sitcom Drake & Josh (in which Josh Peck, the actor who plays George stars in the lead) due to the fact that they were released in the same year and in the same month.