Havoc (2005)

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Directed by Barbara Kopple.

Starring Bijou Phillips, Anne Hathaway.

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A pair of naïve young girls learn that even the most insignificant actions can have lasting consequences in this music-driven take on teen culture starring Anne Hathaway and Bijou Phillips and directed by two-time Oscar-winning filmmaker Barbara Kopple. Influenced by the hip-hop thug lifestyle and seeking to explore life outside of their insulated, culturally homogenized suburb, pretty young teenagers Allison (Hathaway) and Emily (Phillips) set their sights on East L.A. to experience the "gangsta" lifestyle firsthand. By the time the pair meet some true-life Latino gang-bangers and realize just how far out of their element they really are, it may already be too late to turn back. ~ Jason Buchanan, All Movie Guide

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Errol Morris to Make Fiction Film
by SpoutBlog in SpoutBlog on spout.com

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"It didn’t work out so well for Michael Moore, but who is to say other documentarians can’t succeed in fiction filmmaking? Recent notables to make the switch have included Nick Broomfield (whose unscripted yet dramatized Battle for Haditha opens at New York’s Film Forum next month), Barbara Kopple, Andrew Jarecki and Seth Gordon, who originally seemed to be crossing the line to remake his own The King of Kong as a narrative feature but has instead become attached to other fiction projects. The latest, though, is a bit of a shocker, even if he is famous for making a dramatization-heavy doc. According to The Hollywood Reporter, Errol Morris’ next project is a comedy, which he’s currently writing. Titled The End of Everything, the script is at least based on a true story and Morris says the film will be, “a new idea of how to blend drama with reality.” Fortunately, Morris isn’t simply whoring himself out to some Hollywood romcom, as his other quote would suggest: “I’m a funny guy, and ... " [More]

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"After registering a mere blip on the Box Office radar this summer, I Know Who Killed Me will attempt to make up for its poor showing with its DVD release on November 27th. On the surface the film would seem to have all that the average suspense-obssessed DVD renter would desire; sex, a "hot" young starlet, a murder mystery, and an apparent plot twist. All I can say is viewer beware! The sexy young starlet , Lyndsay Lohan, teases you with the promise of T & A, but only delivers a dissappointing and rather raunchy exotic dance without any nudity. Perhaps young Lyndsay should have taken a lessons from Anne Hathaway, another child-star who had the guts to take her top off and then landed in an Oscar worthy movie, something Lohan is eons away from. What else does I Know Who Killed Me have to offer?, not much.The movie conspicuously leads you toward all kinds of theories, but in doing so makes it very obvious that none of them hold any water. Sure, you probably can ... " [More]

Re: Range of Characters
by lukasblu in Range of Character

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"i too would love to see the lookout;it has the best reviews and he's my new found young fave actor since i saw him in mysterious skin;he was also in Shadowboxer (2005),Havoc (2005) and Latter Days (2003);he did not play the lead role in these movies but nevertheless good roles (especially at shadowboxer where he plays a very young doctor) " [More]

Havoc
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"To be straight, this movie went straight to dvd and as a general rule, I don't usually like Stephen Gaghan's work. Barbara Kopple's direction - she directed Shut Up and SIng, the Dixie Chicks documentary and one of my favorite Oz episodes (the season three finale) - encouraged me to watch Havoc along with the promise of good YA characters. But these are YA characters on crack. Literally. And you don't get close enough to any of them in the first half of the movie to care the least about what is going to happen. With that being said, I saw this movie two nights ago and I can't stop thinking about the last forty five or so minutes of the film. And I think that says a lot about a movie. Anne Hathaway's pretty good but you see more of her breasts here than in Brokeback Mountain. Bijou Philips is okay but there's not enough of it in the first part of the movie to justify her actions at the end. Freddy Rodriguez's Hector is on the opposite end o ... " [More]

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"THIS MOVIE WAS ONE OF ANNE HATHAWAYS BEST FILMS I HAVE EVER SEEN, I LOVED HER IN THE PRINCESS DAIRIES , BUT BY FAR THIS IS THE BEST. " [More]

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