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Crime and Punishment in Suburbia (2000)
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This very loose update of Dostoyevsky will never gain the original's classic status, but on its own unseemly little terms it's an efficient genre flick. Trapped in a suburban Hell with an alcoholic stepfather (the always nasty Michael Ironside), suffering, molested high-schooler Rosanne (Monica Keena) begs her quarterback boyfriend (James DeBello) to help her bump him off. Things get complicated with the involvement of her weary mother (scrappy Ellen Barkin, still waiting for a decent role) and a sensitive, outsider classmate (Vincent Kartheiser). Larry Gross's script has Barkin's selfish character acting too much the idiot, though you won't...
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Crime and Punishment in Suburbia Movie Review by Zara  (9/9/2007) |
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This movie is better than it should have been. This movie is even better than it supposed it would be. And it's all completely unintentional.
The movie is bold and sweeping in its dramatics, taking a great deal of what it does over-the-top and TV-movie-of-the-week-ish. In the way that it has been filmed, with the soft...
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