Click on right for more details. No reason has been cited for the Wikify tag on this article. Please replace HTML markup with wiki markup where appropriate. Add wikilinks. Where appropriate, make links to other articles by putting "]" on either side of relevant words (see WP:LINK for more information) and check that your links work as expected. Please do not link terms that most readers are familiar with, such as common occupations, well-known geographical terms, and everyday items. Format the lead. Create or improve the lead paragraph. Arrange section headers as described at Wikipedia:Guide to layout. Add an infobox if it is appropriate for the article. Remove this tag. Lily (Loren Horsley), a shy, wistful girl, is a songwriter when no one is listening. She works as a cashier at a fast food restaurant and has a crush from afar on Jarrod (Jemaine Clement), a geek who works in a video game store. Jarrod is more interested in Lily's attractive workmate, Jenny. With Jenny not at work one day, Jarrod gives Lily an invitation to his "dress as your favourite animal" party to pass along to her, but Jenny crumples it up and throws it away upon receiving it. Lily retrieves the invitation from the trash, hoping Jarrod won't mind when she shows up. The party is sparsely attended with what are apparently teenage and adult customers of Jarrod's store, all dressed extravagantly as their favourite animal. Jarrod is impressed with Lily's shark costume as well as her savant-like video game skills, making it to the finals of a Fight Man video game competition, though she is no match for defending champion, Jarrod (mainly because she spends most of their contest staring at him). Jarrod questions Lily and learns that her parents are dead, having had heart attacks. He says that both his brother (Gordon) and his mother are dead. (He says his mother died by getting kicked in the head by a cow.) After the conversation, they kiss and have very brief sex. Lily now considers Jarrod her boyfriend and hangs out around his store. They set a date one night to see a film at the local cinema. Jarrod fails to turn up. He comes by Lily's house later that night to apologize, saying he was depressed and needed to be alone. He later says that he has to kill a man in his hometown who used to bully him in high school, but laments that he has no car to get there. Lily asks her brother Damon, and he consents to drive Jarrod and Lily to Jarrod's home. On the way to Jarrod's home town, Damon offers Lily and Jarrod apples to eat. Jarrod takes a bite only to discover that his apple is rotten. He throws it out the window into a river that they are driving past. This apple then becomes the representation of Jarrod in several claymation scenes of the film. Upon arriving, Damon and Lily discover that the family is just as bizarre as Jarrod himself. Jarrod's sister (Nancy) and brother-in-law (Doug) seem to sell all kinds of "sell from home products", like questionable make-up kits, knives, and their own athletic jumpsuit clothing line "Awesome apparel". Jarrod's dad is a withdrawn man in a wheelchair. Jarrod spends his time alternating between trying to win his dad's affection (by any means possible) and training for his impending fight with his high school bully Eric Elisi. It becomes quite clear that his father loved his other son Gordon much more than Jarrod. Gordon was very successful, winning many ribbons, especially in running. When Lily asks how Gordon died, Jarrod says that he died saving a kid from a fire at the school. Lily meets with Mason - Jarrod's best friend and computer geek - to find out that Eric will return from Samoa the next day. The three then run to Eric's house to drop off Jarrod's invitation to the fight between the two of them. Gordon's fiance, Tracy, comes over. It is quite obvious that she is a person of similar success to Gordon and that the father even loves her more than Jarrod. Jarrod tries to impress his father with the news that he's dating Lily, but the father isn't impressed. The two go to the beach and Lily finds a rock shaped like a heart that she shows Jarrod. Shortly thereafter, Jarrod breaks up with Lily on the beach because he's too busy with the revenge mission and "too complex" for a relationship. Lily is visibly upset but tries to hide it. Jarrod, attempting to make his father happy by going out with Tracy, takes flowers over to Tracy's house and spends the day with her on the beach trying to impress her with all the fighting "skills" that he has. She isn't impressed. Meanwhile, it's been revealed that Jarrod has a little girl who is nine that he sees only occasionally from a previous random sexual encounter at a party. Lily and the girl walk with Jonah around town coming to a hill. He refuses to go any farther, holding the wheels of his wheelchair and finally getting up out of his wheelchair and walking himself and his wheelchair home (proving that there is no real reason that he needs it). Lily and the girl continue up the hill where the girl says that "That's where my Uncle Gordon died", bringing up that Gordon did not die saving a kid from a fire as Jarrod had said, but rather by committing suicide. They return home and the family eats dinner. Lily tells a silly joke and the whole group gets along very well. Jarrod comes home to find the group laughing and then kills the mood by saying that he'd been with Tracy all day and that they'd been laughing like that, "but like ten times more laughter". Jarrod's father Jonah spends most of his time watching an old tape of Gordon winning a cross country meet and reliving the victory that he felt at that time. In the video, Gordon wins the race and is congratulated obsessively by his father. Tracy comes over and the two are celebrating. Jarrod then attempts to come over and is pushed away by the father. Seeing his father watching this and feeling even more alienated, Jarrod announces that he is dating Tracy. Johan is crushed. Lily, annoyed by this, leaves the house and takes her sleeping bag from the tent, choosing to sleep over on the other side of the yard instead. Jarrod is annoyed by this and moves the whole tent over to her and sleeps inside it (though it collapses on top of him). The next morning, Lily wakes up to find Jarrod semi-sleeping on her, though he insists that it's her doing that he ended up that way. Finally, annoyed by Jarrod's behavior, Lily decides to go with Doug and Nancy to a local party. She gets very drunk and dances with a lot of boys while Jarrod watches, looking extremely jealous, from the other side of the party. The whole party loves Lily. Eventually, she runs off, ripping off all her clothes to sleep naked in the bushes somewhere that night. Jarrod waits up for her. In the morning, he tells Lily he didn't get any sleep that night waiting for her, implying he still has feelings for her. Then he has his battle. Jarrod confronts Eric with his family and friends watching, and finds out that Eric is paralyzed and uses a wheelchair. Eric apologizes for how he bullied him in high school, and Jarrod attacks him with his nunchuks. Despite his condition, Eric is able to easily wrestle Jarrod to the ground and only relents in his attacks when Jarrod's father tells him to leave him alone. Jarrod is depressed about his fight with Eric, however Lily finds him and attempts to cheer him up. Lily leaves saying that she is leaving for home on the following day - but that could change. However at the bus stop Jarrod meets her and presents her with a bouquet of lillies. They reconcile, and head back to where they met on a bus together.

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