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Shock to the System
Regent Entertainment


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MPAA RATING: R for some sexual content, nudity, language and a violent image

Starring Chad Allen, Sebastian Spence, Morgan Fairchild, Michael Woods, and Nelson Wong

When hard boiled private eye Donald Strachey (Allen) finds his latest client dead, an apparent suicide, Albany's favorite gay detective smells a rat and decides to take matters into his own hands. (Regent Entertainment)

GENRE(S):	Crime \| Foreign
WRITTEN BY:	Ron McGee
DIRECTED BY:	Ron Oliver
RELEASE DATE:	DVD: February 13, 2007 Theatrical: August 4, 2006
RUNNING TIME:	91 minutes, Color
ORIGIN:	Canada

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Variety Robert Koehler

Enough action, a tiny pinch of sex and some campy moments from Morgan Fairchild.

TV Guide Maitland McDonagh

The story delivers enough twists and turns to be engaging without feeling like work, and the overall vibe is dangerous and flirty rather than brutal or excessively graphic.

The New York Times Nathan Lee

A sly, refreshingly grown-up gay entertainment, though rather less satisfying as a thriller.

Village Voice Jim Ridley

Director Ron Oliver applies a thin veneer of straight-to-cable pseudo-gloss without finding a workable tone, and the cast lacks the charisma and chemistry to make the genre and gender-bending register as more than novelty.

Los Angeles Times Michael Ordoña

So grimly determined to be even-handed that it never generates tension.

The Hollywood Reporter Frank Scheck

Shock to the System demonstrates that merely subverting genre conventions doesn't quite make for compelling entertainment.

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Shock to the System
Regent Entertainment