Call it too much fuel to the fire in a misguided effort to bring home the tragedy of gay hate crimes.
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03/01/07
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Hate Crime (2005)
11 %
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Reviews Counted: 18
Fresh: 2
Rotten:16
Average Rating: 4.3/10
Theatrical Release: Mar 16, 2006 Limited
Synopsis: Director Tommy Stovall's provocative indie thriller HATE CRIME raises complex moral questions about free speech, intolerance, and vengeance through the harrowing story of a gay man (Seth Peterson) whose lover is found beaten to death... [More]
Starring: Seth Peterson, Bruce Davison, Chad E. Donella, Giancarlo Esposito
Director: Tommy Stovall
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deserves praise, even the political viewpoints lack any subtlety whatsoever.
02/01/07
Writer-director Tommy Stovall creates characters who are real and sympathetic.
12/26/06
First-time director Stovall renders all with the kitchen-lit, squarely composed aesthetic of timid prime-time TV, and his moral schema is no less ordinary.
08/18/06
Top Critic An intelligent, well-acted, tense drama that is challenging in its moral complexity.
08/18/06
One day, a truly original screenplay will be written in which churchgoing, beer-drinking Southerners will be portrayed as something other than evil hypocrites.
05/26/06
The film never rises above its cry now-avenge later Lifetime Channel sensibilities.
05/18/06
The portrait of the Boyds is painted by Tommy Stovall, the film's writer and director, with such broad and venomous strokes that if the gay characters had been portrayed in the same way, the film would rightly be seen as bigoted.
05/12/06
Top Critic It takes a turn toward vigilante justice, Texas-style, where everybody has a gun. They trade a hate crime for a crime of hate, and that mixed message overshadows the potential of this film.
04/28/06
... a flawed film that frequently tries to rise above standard TV dramas of the week.
04/27/06
Top Critic A well-meaning but hopelessly stilted melodrama, Hate Crime sacrifices good intentions with its mediocrity of execution.
03/30/06
Top Critic What is not entirely clear is what Hate Crime adds to the equation that hasn't been done before.
03/16/06
Top Critic On the surface, Hate Crime may seem like a movie about violence rooted in religious bigotry, but underneath it's a poorly disguised argument for vigilantism.
03/16/06
Top Critic When the plot gets lost in irrational revenge fantasies, you'll wish you had stayed home watching reruns.
03/14/06
Top Critic While Stovall's study of hate crimes is well acted, and with the right intentions, it can never get off the ground and feel like a unique dissection, and still comes off as an episode of a cop show in the end.
03/14/06
First-time Sedona filmmaker Tommy Stovall can't bear to part with certain scenes, even if they lengthen his film and send the story in circles.
09/22/05
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