A darkly romantic story of murder and redemption, set against an eerily familiar American landscape.A darkly romantic story of murder and redemption, set against an eerily familiar American landscape.A darkly romantic story of murder and redemption, set against an eerily familiar American landscape.
- Awards
- 3 nominations
- Coach
- (as Marshall Teague)
- Teacher
- (as Anthony C. Chow)
- Moznick
- (as Blake C. Shields)
- Director
- Writer
- All cast & crew
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Storyline
Did you know
- TriviaLoosely based on Fyodor Dostoevsky's Crime and Punishment.
- Quotes
Vincent: I used to think if I killed somebody I would want to go to the cemetery and apologize. That's not really what guilt is though. Guilt's a feeling you have towards people who are living. It's like everyday you're out there shaking hands, talking. But you, the guilty person, you know that it's all unreal. It's like guilt is this secret inside of you that destroys the fabric of everything, and then everything's unreal. You can't even have a life. But it's not necessary for it to destroy you. You just have to face it.
For me, this is just an artfully rendered case study of the stuff I deal with four days a week. But I see more Victor Hugo (and "Les Miserables") here than I do Dostoyevsky.
Yeah; I agree the execution is uneven. At times to the point of being almost senseless. But that may be part of the charm. Life in the world described here -is- uneven. At times to the point of being almost senseless. (How many adolescent females with alcoholic parents have I known who think life is senseless? A hundred? -Two- hundred?)
Can't say I "enjoyed" this movie. The "Jimmy Stewart" character (from "Rear Window") is just a little too obsessed to work in the world of a young victim / victimizer who seems, at least, to be trying to make sense of it all. The trial scenes may well be meant to have a dreamlike quality, but they just seem disconnected. And the whole trip is plain ugly.
But the fact that the whole trip -is- so ugly is a major reason why this film demands to be seen. Alcohol; frustrated, narcissistic fathers; cougar moms and hottie daughters are a recipe for disaster that's being cooked daily in suburban America. This is reality in modern America. It'd be nice to put a stop to it before our whole culture becomes dysfunctional.
Nice little wake-up call here.
- rajah524-3
- Mar 9, 2009
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Details
- Release date
- Country of origin
- Language
- Also known as
- Crime & Punishment in Suburbia
- Filming locations
- California State Polytechnic University, Pomona, California, USA(Prison exteriors)
- Production companies
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Box office
- Gross US & Canada
- $26,394
- Opening weekend US & Canada
- $9,893
- Sep 17, 2000
- Runtime1 hour 40 minutes
- Color
- Sound mix
- Aspect ratio
- 1.85 : 1