Crime And Punishment In Suburbia (DVD) Reviews
Description:Genre: Comedy / Theatrical Release: 2001 / Director: Rob Schmidt / Actors: Monica Keena, Ellen Barkin ... / DVD released 25 February, 2002 at Pathe Distribution / Features of the DVD: Anamorphic, PAL, Widescreen
Newest Review: ... ANOTHER DAY IN PARADISE). This pale, scrawny rebel skulks around in the bushes, snapping photos as Roseanne is fingered by ... more
... her horny boyfriend. As he decides to "look closer" (a la Wes Bentley), he discovers that the picture perfect Roseanne is being raped by her drunken beast of a father (Michael Ironside, shamelessly overacting.) Roseanne's mother (Ellen Barkin, SWITCH) is out of the loop, having run off with a handsome, well spoken bartender (Jeffrey Wright, a brilliant actor left stranded in an underwritten role). Suddenly, all the kids in school are gossiping about Roseanne's family - mUmmy ran away, daddy got Been...more
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by - written on 31/03/01, updated on 31/03/01
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Crime and Punishment in Suburbia is directed by Rob Schmidt. Written by Larry Gross. Starring Monica Keena, Vincent Kartheiser, Michael Ironside, Ellen Barkin, James DeBello and Jeffrey Wright. Rated 18. After dashing suburban values to hell with Todd Solondz's HAPPINESS, edgy production company Killer Films returns to the fray with CRIME AND PUNISHMENT IN SUBURBIA. With all the finesse of a dull kitchen knife, this loose adaptation of Fyodor Dostoyevsky's classic Russian novel attempts to strip away the layers of small-town hypocrisy. This self-satisfied waste of space, care of flashy new filmmaker Rob Schmidt, manages to be even more insipid than the ... Read the complete review
by - written on 07/02/01, updated on 07/02/01 (Very useful, 34 readings)
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High School coming of age programmes are all the rage from horror films like ‘Scream’ and ‘I know what you did last summer’ to the more teen orientated TV soaps an example of which is ‘Dawsons Creek’. ‘Crime and Punishment in Suburbia’ is altogether darker stuff although it does fall into this category. Loosely (and I mean loosely) based on Fyodor Dostoyevsky’s book ‘Crime and Punishment’ and is director Rob Schmit’s second outing after ‘Saturn’ in 1999. Before you go to see this film, or even during it leave all notions of comparing it to ‘American beauty’ behind, because ... Read the complete review
