I Was a Teenage Faust

I Was a Teenage Faust

Directed by	Thom Eberhardt
Produced by	Rose Lam
Written by	Thom Eberhardt
Starring	Josh Zuckerman Noel Fisher Morgan Fairchild Robert Townsend Caroline Elliott
Distributed by	Showtime Entertainment
Release dates	December 15, 2002 (U.S.) June 1, 2002 (Australia)
Running time	95 minutes
Country	United States Canada
Language	English

I Was a Teenage Faust is a 2002 made-for-television film of an adolescent who sells his soul to the Devil to achieve popularity.^[1] It was directed by Thom Eberhardt and although the film takes place in Indiana, it was filmed in south-western British Columbia.

Plot

The film follows the story of socially inept adolescent Brendan Willy (Josh Zuckerman) who lives in Indiana. When he desires the affections of Twyla Day (Caroline Elliott), Mr. Five, (Robert Townsend) a tempter from Hell, approaches Brendan with an offer to make him popular.

References

↑ "I Was a Teenage Faust". The New York Times.

External links

I Was a Teenage Faust at the Internet Movie Database

Films directed by Thom Eberhardt

Sole Survivor (1983) Night of the Comet (1984) The Night Before (1988) Without a Clue (1988) Gross Anatomy (1989) Captain Ron (1992) I Was a Teenage Faust (2002) Naked Fear (2007)

Faust

Characters

Inspiration	Johann Georg Faust Johann Fust Simon Magus Theophilus of Adana

Legend	Erdgeist Faust Mephistopheles Pan Twardowski

Comics	Doctor Faustus Felix Faust Mephisto Mys-Tech Sebastian Faust

Seminal works

Historia von D. Johann Fausten (1587 chapbook)
Cenodoxus (1602, play)
Doctor Faustus (1604 play)
Goethe's Faust (1808 play)
- The First Part of the Tragedy
- The Second Part of the Tragedy

Deal with the Devil
- in popular culture
Works based on Faust
Phantom of the Paradise
The Phantom of the Opera
G vs E
The Fiery Angel (1908)
The Rake's Progress (1951, Stravinsky)
The Picture of Dorian Gray (1891)
"Black Easter" (1968)
Vi veri universum vivus vici
The Transformers: The Movie (1986)
Star Wars Episode III: Revenge of the Sith (2005)
Before Twilight (2009)
Stingy Jack

Adaptations and other derivative works

Films

Faust and Marguerite (1900)
The Student of Prague (1913)
The Student of Prague (1926)
Faust (1926)
The Devil and Daniel Webster (1941)
Alias Nick Beal (1949)
The Band Wagon (1953)
Marguerite de la nuit (1955)
Faustina (1957)
Damn Yankees (1958)
Faust (1960)
Bedazzled (1967)
Doctor Faustus (1967)
El extraño caso del doctor Fausto (1969)
The Master and Margaret (1972)
Kanashimi no Belladonna (1973)
The Devil and Max Devlin (1981)
Mephisto (1981)
Care Bears Movie II: A New Generation (1986)
Crossroads (1986)
Doctor Faustus (1982)
Oh, God! You Devil (1984)
Limit Up (1989)
Faust (1994)
The Master and Margarita (1994)
The Day of the Beast (1995)
Spawn (1997)
H-E Double Hockey Sticks (1999)
Bedazzled (2000)
O Brother, Where Art Thou? (2000)
Faust: Love of the Damned (2001)
Fausto 5.0 (2001)
I Was a Teenage Faust (2002)
Shortcut to Happiness (2003)
Ghost Rider (2007)
American Faust: From Condi to Neo-Condi (2010)
Faust (2011)
The Wizard of Stone Mountain (2011)

Plays

Gretchen (1879)
Will Success Spoil Rock Hunter? (1955)
The Black Bonspiel of Wullie MacCrimmon (1965)
Temptation (1986)

Operas

Faust (1816, Spohr)
La damnation de Faust (1846, Berlioz)
Faust (1859, Gounod)
Mefistofele (1868, Boito)
Faust and Marguerite (1855, Lutz)
Faust up to date (1888, Lutz)
Doktor Faust (1916–25, Busoni)
Doctor Faustus Lights the Lights (1938)
Reuben, Reuben (1955)
Historia von D. Johann Fausten (1994)

Classical music

Gretchen am Spinnrade (1814)
Faust Overture (1840)
Grande sonate 'Les quatre âges' 2nd movement "Quasi-Faust" (1847)
Scenes from Goethe's Faust (1853)
Part II of Symphony No. 8 (1906–07, Mahler)
Faust Symphony (1854–57, Liszt)
Mephisto Waltzes (Liszt)
Gothic Symphony
Bagatelle sans tonalité

Other music

Albums	Epica Saga Epica The Black Halo Beethoven's Last Night The Black Rider

Songs	"Mephisto Polka" (1859–85) "Cross Road Blues" (1936) "Sympathy for the Devil" (1968) "Friend of the Devil" (1970) "Bohemian Rhapsody" (1975) "The Devil Went Down to Georgia" (1979) "Take My Scars" (1997) "Faustian Echoes" (2012)

Television

Episodes	"Printer's Devil" (1963) "Of Late I Think of Cliffordville" (1963) "Devil's Due" (1991) "Treehouse of Horror IV" (1993) "Bart Sells His Soul" (1995) "Hell Is Other Robots" (1999) "The Devil's Hands Are Idle Playthings" (2003)

Other	The Devil and Daniel Mouse (1978) The Collector (2004) Reaper (2009)

Musicals

Damn Yankees (1955)
Randy Newman's Faust (1993)
Success! (1993)
Faust (2003)

Prose

Bearskin
Daniel and the Devil
"The Monk" (1796)
Melmoth the Wanderer (1820)
"The Devil and Tom Walker" (1824)
St. John's Eve (1830)
"Auriol" (1844)
Chasse-galerie (1892)
The Sorrows of Satan (1896)
Exploits and Opinions of Dr. Faustroll, Pataphysician (1898)
The Master and Margarita (1929–40)
Mephisto (1936)
The Devil and Daniel Webster (1937)
None But Lucifer (1939)
Doktor Faustus (1947)
The Devil in Velvet (1951)
The Year the Yankees Lost the Pennant (1954)
Gimmicks Three (1956)
The Devil to Pay in the Backlands (1956)
That Hell-Bound Train (1958)
For a Breath I Tarry (1966)
The Damnation Game (1986)
Eric (1990)
The Devil's Own Work (1991)
Jack Faust (1997)
Johannes Cabal the Necromancer (2009)
Doktor Faust und Mephisto (2013)

Ballet

Faust

Art

Faust
Gods' Man

Poems

Manfred

Video games

Comics

Anime & manga

Category

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