In 1975, an atheist misfit teenager attends bible camp to try to win his religious best friend back from a pastor’s son and finds himself in a contest to see who can be the first break Camp Rule Number Three by holding hands with a girl.

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It’s 1975 and Jake and Mike have a good thing going. Teens from a small coastal town, they couldn’t be more different. Jake’s a nerdy brainiac honor roll student and atheist. Mike’s an athletic, academically undistinguished bible-thumping fundamentalist. But they help each other through the rites of high school and adolescence just fine – until Mike’s church gets a new pastor and he gets a new best buddy in Josh Wiffle, the pastor’s bad-boy son. After an unfortunate incident involving gasoline and a Catholic church basement, Jake agrees to go to bible camp with Mike and Josh in hopes of somehow getting his best friend back. But when they arrive, Josh convinces the three friends to enter into a contest to see who can be the first break camp rule number three by holding hands with a girl.

It’s no easy feat at a fundamentalist bible camp in the 1970s and it’s made all the more difficult by Jake not being able to keep his mouth shut and getting the nickname “Alien Boy.” And every girl in the camp wants to be friends with Mike, even Audrey, the camp bad girl (a mirror image of Josh). As camp unfolds and the stakes get higher, the three young men test the boundaries of their friendship, their faith and their fear of the future.

Breaking Rule Number Three is a coming of age comedy that tackles the big questions like love, loss and redemption. Imagine That 70s Show crossed with Stand By Me. Written by Don Hauka (Jinnah: On Crime, Canyon War: The Untold Story), the film is suitable for a PG audience.