Palo Alto native James Franco stars as an eccentric startup hipster from his hometown in the forthcoming comedy "Why Him?"
The feature film co-stars Zoey Deutch, who plays Franco's straight-laced, Stanford-attending girlfriend, and Bryan Cranston as her father, who clashes with the freewheeling shirtlessness of Franco's off-the-rails character.
Franco graduated from Palo Alto High School in 1996 and returned to his alma mater 20 years later to lead a film workshop.
In 2013, Franco starred in "Palo Alto," a film about a high school teacher's inappropriate relationship with a student. It was based on "Palo Alto Stories," a short book he wrote.
"Why Him?" opens in theaters nationwide on Dec. 25.
