Metacritic Film

Followers

Starring Sam Trammell, Eddie Robinson, Jerry Laurino, and Mark Dobies

MPAA RATING: Not rated

Castle Hill Productions
Drama
87 minutes | Color
USA
Released In Theaters October 13, 2000

Inspired by an actual racial hazing incident, Followers focuses on three friends who want to pledge an exclusive fraternity. The friendship disintegrates when one of the friends is not accepted because he is black. To test the loyalty of the two white friends, the fraternity president forces them to target their African American friend through a series of dangerous, racially motivated hazing incidents. (Castle Hill Productions)

WRITTEN BY
Jonathan M. Flicker

DIRECTED BY
Jonathan M. Flicker

Overall Metascore

This is a weighted, normalized average of all individual scores given by critics, on a scale of 0 (worst) to 100 (best).

16 / 100

Critic Reviews

40	TV Guide Unfortunately, Flicker wasn't able to rise above the limitations of his microbudget, and his message is compromised by student-film production values and performances that range from adequate to pretty awful.
38	New York Daily News Though Flicker based the story on real events, the execution is so melodramatic that none of it feels remotely true.
31	Mr. Showbiz An earnest but fatally amateurish and stereotypical melodrama about fraternity hazing.
25	New York Post Atrociously written.
10	The New York Times Suffers from clumsy exposition and uneven acting, except in the case of Eddie T. Robinson.
0	Village Voice So seamlessly and comprehensively dreadful that its very existence (let alone its appearance in theaters) beggars belief.

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