Watch this movie instead of reading Dostoyevsky's novel, and you'll still fail the exam. This movie fails, too.
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Crime and Punishment in Suburbia (2000)
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Reviews Counted:29
Fresh:6
Rotten:23
Average Rating:3.7/10
Consensus: Despite the beautiful visuals, Crime and Punishment is too somber and pretentious. Also, the acting is of mixed quality.
Runtime: 1 hr 38 mins
Genre: Dramas
Synopsis: In director Robert Schmidt's adaptation of Fyodor Dostoevsky's classic novel CRIME AND PUNISHMENT (the "in Suburbia" is Schmidt's addition), the role of the protagonist is played not by a troubled... [More]
Starring: Monica Keena, Vincent Kartheiser, Ellen Barkin, James DeBello
Director: Rob Schmidt
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Reviews for Crime and Punishment in Suburbia
An intense coming-of-age think-piece.
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The ghost of Dostoevsky should sue.
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Top CriticA story so stupid and contrived that old Dostoyevsky might have somersaulted in his grave by now.
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The director guides Keena to a poignant performance.
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Director Rob Schmidt photographs the action in that visually clichéd, MTV-influenced manner now de rigeur in much of independent cinema.
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Top CriticYou wouldn't want to give any of these people the time of day in real life. They are blah or worse, and they are headed for some violent confrontations that seem pointless because they are so unworthy of our attention in the first place.
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Top CriticThe younger actors ... are full of small, poignant surprises.
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An arty, brain-dead celebration of beautiful losers.
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Top CriticFar from the head-banging alternative to teen movies the filmmakers intended -- it's more like a self-important Poison Ivy sequel.
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Top CriticThe 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.
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Top CriticThe 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.
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The kind of movie that lives and breathes.
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Top CriticNot 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. It only makes it look sillier.
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