One such player that Stanford snatched away from his home state was quarterback Andrew Luck, who played high school football in Houston, TX.

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"Chronicle" starts with high school senior Andrew (Dane DeHaan, looking like a young Leo DiCaprio) setting up a camera in his bedroom to catch his abusive father (Michael Kelly) punching him out while Andrew's mother lies dying downstairs.

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The principal camera-wielder is Andrew Detmer (Dane DeHaan), a senior at a Seattle high school.

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