Struck by Lightning (2012) (Movie)

Struck by Lightning is a 2012 coming-of-age comedy-drama film written by and starring Chris Colfer, also based on his novel, and directed by Brian Dannelly. After high school senior Carson Phillips is struck by lightning and killed in his high-school parking lot, he recounts the way he blackmailed his classmates into contributing to his literary magazine.

Struck by Lightning 2012 Movie - Glee's Chris Colfer wrote and stars in this coming of age high-school black comedy. He plays a senior who wants nothing more than to go to Northwestern in order to escape from the stifling small town in which he's grown up. To get there, he ends up blackmailing a number of his fellow classmates in order to start a literary journal that he believes will impress the admissions board.

Synopsis by Perry Seibert

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