Crime And Punishment In Suburbia (DVD)

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 ...

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 ...