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Crime and Punishment in Suburbia
United Artists / MGM
FILM:
MPAA RATING: R for brutal violence, strong sexuality, language and substance abuse
Starring
Monica Keena,
Vincent Kartheiser,
Ellen Barkin,
and
Jeffrey Wright
Loosely based on Dostoyevsky's "Crime and Punishment," this modern day story is about Roseanne (Keena) who is being abused by her stepfather. She decides to take revenge and plots his murder, finding herself on a path of guilt, a cover-up and a police investigation.
| GENRE(S): |
Drama
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| WRITTEN BY: |
Larry Gross
|
| DIRECTED BY: |
Rob Schmidt
|
| RELEASE DATE: |
DVD: January 2, 2001
Video: January 2, 2001
Theatrical: September 15, 2000
|
| RUNNING TIME: |
100 minutes, Color |
| ORIGIN: |
USA |

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75
Chicago Sun-Times
Roger Ebert
A messy but hungry film like this is more interesting than cool technical perfection.

75
New York Daily News
Elizabeth Weitzman
Sloppy, self-satisfied and surprisingly heartfelt.

63
New York Post
Jonathan Foreman
Less an updated version of the Dostoevsky novel than an unusually somber Hollywood teen love story.
60
TV Guide
Maitland McDonagh
Melodramatic look at alienated California high school students.

48
Mr. Showbiz
Michael Atkinson
Somehow manages to stay afloat on a sea of pretension, thanks largely to some splashy visuals.
40
Film.com
Ernest Hardy
The whole point is nothing more than the revelation that the terrain of suburbia is populated with damaged people inflicting damage on others. This is still news?

38
Chicago Tribune
Mark Caro
Just say no.
30
Village Voice
Jessica Winter
Often succumbs to the craven hysteria perhaps inherent in its hoary premise.

25
Seattle Post-Intelligencer
Sean Axmaker
Not faithful enough to be an adaptation, too misguided to be considered an interpretation, and not funny enough to be a parody, this film would do well not to advertise its inspiration.

20
LA Weekly
John Patterson
A cut above the usual teenage-wasteland movie.

20
The New York Times
Dana Stevens
Completed before the release of "American Beauty," this contrived, puffed up little picture nonetheless seems like a ripoff, perhaps because it mines the same tired assumptions and unexamined stereotypes about suburban family life.

20
Salon.com
Charles Taylor
Even dressed up in tabloid lighting and cut with jagged edits, this pulp nihilism never goes beyond daytime TV banality.

10
Los Angeles Times
Kevin Thomas
The "crime" was that it was made in the first place and the "punishment" is having to watch it.
0
Entertainment Weekly
Owen Gleiberman
A somber, draggy, deadweight, lugubrious, absurdly self serious version of ''American Beauty.''


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