A straight-A student, Carlos is focused and driven, but his future is cast in doubt when he becomes the flirtation target of spoiled, self-destructive bad girl Nicole Oakley (Kirsten Dunst), who’s the daughter of a prominent congressman (Bruce Davison). to attend the posh, wealthy Pacific Palisades High School in Los Angeles on a football scholarship. Jay Hernandez stars as Carlos Nunez, a poor but athletically gifted Latino teenager who endures a two-hour bus ride every day from East L.A.