Average Rating: 3.6/10
Reviews Counted: 29
Fresh: 6 | Rotten: 23
Despite the beautiful visuals, Crime and Punishment is too somber and pretentious. Also, the acting is of mixed quality.
Average Rating: 3/10
Critic Reviews: 12
Fresh: 2 | Rotten: 10
Despite the beautiful visuals, Crime and Punishment is too somber and pretentious. Also, the acting is of mixed quality.
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Average Rating: 3.3/5
User Ratings: 2,923
Recalling both The Postman Always Rings Twice (1946) and American Beauty (1999), this teen drama recounts the trials and tribulations of one very dysfunctional family. Roseanne Skolnik (Monica Keena) is a popular high school student who is dating Jimmy (James DeBello), the football captain. She also lives in a family where her embittered mother Maggie (Ellen Barkin) is plotting to murder Roseanne's violent drunken stepfather Fred (Michael Ironside). After a smashed Fred rapes her, Roseanne
Jan 24, 2000 Wide
Jan 2, 2001
MGM Home Entertainment
All Critics (36) | Top Critics (14) | Fresh (6) | Rotten (24) | DVD (5)
What should be the heart of the movie (the interior lives of the mother and daughter at the tale's center) is instead a dud; the female characters are barely drawn at all.
An arty, brain-dead celebration of beautiful losers.
The kind of movie that lives and breathes.
The best thing that can be said about Rob Schmidt's Crime and Punishment in Suburbia -- aside from the fact that it's over in less than two hours -- is that it doesn't glorify violence committed by sexy teens.
The picture is so garish in its violence ... so laden with angsty metaphoric gloom, that its mood would feel grimly overcooked even if it were applied to one of the infamous high school rampages of recent years.
At one point Vincent muses, 'It's hard to lift somebody out of hell.' Not that hard if you're stuck watching Crime and Punishment in Suburbia. Deliverance is just below the exit sign.
This is one twisted pic.
Despite its pretenses, the film fails to break the mold, presenting stock characters in predictable situations without a gimmick to separate it from the pack.
The crime? Turning Fyodor Dostoyevsky's classic novel into a glorified music video.
supposedly based on dostoyevsky's c&p, it was an ok movie but there was virtually no resemblance to the book
May 28, 2007CRIME + PUNISHMENT IN SUBURBIA (2000)
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