Rip-Off: Trying To Find Your Own Thing is a 1971 Canadian slice of life teen comedy film directed and co-edited by Don Shebib, written by William Fruet, and produced by Bennett Fode, about the misadventures of four high school friends in their graduating year who make valiant but unsuccessful attempts to impress their school friends, especially the girls, trying filmmaking, forming a rock band, and starting a commune on a piece of land inherited by Michael.