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I Was a Teenage Faust

Written by	Thom Eberhardt
Directed by	Thom Eberhardt
Starring	Josh Zuckerman Noel Fisher Morgan Fairchild Robert Townsend Caroline Elliott
Country of origin	United States Canada
Original language	English
Production
Producer	Rose Lam
Running time	95 minutes
Original release
Release	December 15, 2002 (2002-12-15)

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. 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.

Cast

Robert Townsend as Mr. Five
Josh Zuckerman as Brendan
Stuart Margolin as Mephisto
Noel Fisher as Tom
Caroline Elliott as Twyla / Su Su
Iris Quinn as Ginger
Stephen E. Miller as Joe Huntoon
Crystal Heidrick as Loretta
Morgan Fairchild as Babylonia
Betty Phillips as Grammy
Claire Riley as Teacher
Scott McNeil as Temptor

Reception

The film has a user rating of 47% on Rotten Tomatoes.

References

Matthew Tobey. "I Was a Teenage Faust". Movies & TV Dept. The New York Times. Archived from the original on 2013-08-31.
"User Reviews". Rotten Tomatoes. Retrieved July 9, 2023.

External links

I Was a Teenage Faust at IMDb

v t e Films directed by Thom Eberhardt
Sole Survivor (1984) Night of the Comet (1984) The Night Before (1988) Without a Clue (1988) Gross Anatomy (1989) Captain Ron (1992) Twice Upon a Time (1998) I Was a Teenage Faust (2002)

Works based on Faust

Folk legend

Seminal works

Historia von D. Johann Fausten (1587 chapbook)
Doctor Faustus (1592 play)
Cenodoxus (1602, play)
Goethe's Faust (1808 play)
- Faust, Part One
- Faust, Part Two

Prose

"Bearskin"
"Daniel and the Devil"
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 (1929–1940)
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)
The Last Faust (2019)

Plays

Gretchen (1879)
Damn Yankees (1955)
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)
Le petit Faust (1869, Hervé)
Faust and Marguerite (1855, Lutz)
Faust up to Date (1888, Lutz)
Doktor Faust (1916–1925, Busoni)
Doctor Faustus Lights the Lights (1938)
The Rake's Progress (1951, Stravinsky)
Reuben, Reuben (1955)
Historia von D. Johann Fausten (1994)
Faustus, the Last Night (2006)

Ballets

Faust ballets

Classical music

Gretchen am Spinnrade (1814, Schubert)
Faust Overture (1840, Wagner)
Grande sonate 'Les quatre âges' 2nd movement "Quasi-Faust" (1847, Alkan)
Scenes from Goethe's Faust (1853, Schumann)
Part II of Symphony No. 8 (1906–07, Mahler)
Faust Symphony (1854–1857, Liszt)
Mephisto Waltzes (Liszt)
Gothic Symphony (Brian)
Bagatelle sans tonalité (Liszt)

Other music

Albums	Epica Saga Epica The Black Halo Beethoven's Last Night The Black Rider
Songs	"Mephisto Polka" (1859–1885) "Cross Road Blues" (1936) "Friend of the Devil" (1970) "Bohemian Rhapsody" (1975) "The Devil Went Down to Georgia" (1979) "Faustian Echoes" (2012) "The Mephistopheles of Los Angeles" (2015)

Films

The Laboratory of Mephistopheles (1897)
Faust and Marguerite (1900)
The Damnation of Faust (1903)
Faust and Marguerite (1904)
The Student of Prague (1913)
Rapsodia satanica (1915)
The Student of Prague (1926)
Faust (1926)
The Devil and Daniel Webster (1941)
Alias Nick Beal (1949)
The Legend of Faust (1949)
Beauty and the Devil (1950)
Marguerite de la nuit (1955)
Damn Yankees (1958)
Faust (1960)
Bedazzled (1967)
Doctor Faustus (1967)
El extraño caso del doctor Fausto (1969)
Mephisto (1981)
Doctor Faustus (1982)
Oh, God! You Devil (1984)
Crossroads (1986)
Faust (1994)
Bedazzled (2000)
Faust: Love of the Damned (2000)
Fausto 5.0 (2001)
I Was a Teenage Faust (2002)
Shortcut to Happiness (2007)
Goat Story (2008)
Faust (2011)
The Last Faust (2019)

Television

Episodes	"Printer's Devil" (1963) "The Devil's Hands Are Idle Playthings" (2003)
Other	The Devil and Daniel Mouse (1978) When the Devil Calls Your Name (2019)

Musicals

Damn Yankees (1955)
Randy Newman's Faust (1995)
Success! (1993)
Faust (2003)
Disco Inferno (2004)

Comics

Gods' Man (1929)
Faust (manga) (1950)
Doctor Faustus (comics) (1968)
Faust (comics) (1987)
Frau Faust (2014)

Art

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