Metacritic Film

In Crowd, The

Starring Susan Ward, Lori Heuring, and Matthew Settle

MPAA RATING: PG-13 for violence, sexuality, language and drug content

Warner Bros.
Suspense/Thriller
108 minutes | Color
USA
Released In Theaters July 19, 2000

While working at a country club, a young woman is brought into a small group of wealthy college students. She begins dating a tennis pro, who happens to be the boyfriend of the girl who brought her into the group, and she then sees the darker side of their lifestyle.

WRITTEN BY
Mark Gibson
Philip Halprin

DIRECTED BY
Mary Lambert

Overall Metascore

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

14 / 100

Critic Reviews

63 Boston Globe
The moral universe remains unsullied in this lite, lo-cal thriller - the cinematic equivalent of a fizzy summer drink.
50 TV Guide
The greatest mystery, though, is how this thoroughly trashy picture wound up opening theatrically, rather than going direct to video.
50 TNT RoughCut
A teen screamer with enough implants for the boys and enough bitchiness for the girls.
25 San Francisco Chronicle
A glossy piece of trash.
25 Entertainment Weekly
Isn't a movie, it's Gorgonzola, a crumbly summertime stinker veined with pop-cultural fungus.
25 Chicago Tribune Vicky Edwards
Insipid, ineffective, inept and insulting to our intelligence.
25 New York Post
A laughably bad B-thriller.
20 Mr. Showbiz
This is sub-par Aaron Spelling sludge all the way.
10 The New York Times
The only people who could be surprised at this movie will be those who wandered into the wrong multiplex theater by mistake.
10 Chicago Reader
Formula thriller that exploits homosexuality better than murder-mystery clues.
10 Los Angeles Times
Trite and uninvolving.
10 Variety Godfrey Cheshire
Murky, unappealing The In Crowd is a femme-centered melodrama that makes an awkward stretch into thriller territory.
10 Film.com Moira Macdonald
Silly teen thriller.
0 Austin Chronicle Kimberely Jones
The In Crowd is nothing but a deadly dull business.
0 Salon.com
Summer's most shameless piece of trash since "Wild Things."
0 LA Weekly Chuck Wilson
Lifeless, desultory slog.

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