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Twelve (2010)

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Average Rating: 3.6/10
Reviews Counted: 27
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Critic Reviews: 11
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Movie Info

Twelve is the story of 17-year-old White Mike, the privileged son of a restaurant tycoon. His mother succumbed to breast cancer several years before the film begins. White Mike is a drug dealer who has taken his senior year in high school off to sell drugs to his wealthy peers. When he is not selling drugs he is reminiscing of his childhood and philosophizing about a world he feels he is not a part of. The title of the film refers to a new designer drug which the protagonist of the novel, White

R, 1 hr. 33 min.

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Directed By: Joel Schumacher

In Theaters: Aug 6, 2010 Limited

On DVD: Dec 28, 2010

Box Office:$0.2M

Hannover House

Sinks under the weight of its own pretensions.

August 6, 2010 Full Review Source: New York Times

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Stephen Holden

New York Times

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The result isn't awful, but it is awfully familiar. When will someone make a film about being old, poor and ugly in Omaha?

August 6, 2010 Full Review Source: Detroit News

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Tom Long

Detroit News

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It all comes off as faintly absurd.

August 6, 2010 Full Review Source: Newark Star-Ledger

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Stephen Whitty

Newark Star-Ledger

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It feels as shopworn as a dusty VHS tape of Less Than Zero.

August 6, 2010 Full Review Source: New York Post

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Kyle Smith

New York Post

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Schumacher can't keep himself from the kind of vibey camera and editing flourishes that facilitate only viewer numbness...

August 6, 2010 Full Review Source: Los Angeles Times

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Robert Abele

Los Angeles Times

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This movie's like an audiobook, accompanied by visuals from a 7-year-old copy of Vogue.

August 5, 2010 Full Review Source: Salon.com

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Andrew O'Hehir

Salon.com

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There are absolutely no surprises in "Twelve." None. And the characters are as familiar as the story--a stock collection of "prep school" males and females that look as if they've never sat through a class in their lives.

January 8, 2011 Full Review Source: Movie Metropolis

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James Plath

Movie Metropolis

Give Schumacher credit for making a movie that is, at the very least, unique in its failure.

December 21, 2010 Full Review Source: IFC.com

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Matt Singer

IFC.com

Joel Schumacher's talent exceeds his ambition in Twelve.

August 11, 2010 Full Review Source: New York Press

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Armond White

New York Press

An unsavory piece of dreary, mindless ick from a director who can't seem to get his act together these days. That is, if he ever had an act to begin with.

August 7, 2010 Full Review Source: BrianOrndorf.com

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Brian Orndorf

BrianOrndorf.com

One of the characters...astutely describes herself as 'shallow and narcissistic.' So's the movie.

August 6, 2010 Full Review Source: One Guy's Opinion

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Frank Swietek

One Guy's Opinion

Want to punch the narrator in the face? Good, we're on the same page.

August 6, 2010 Full Review Source: Washington City Paper

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Tricia Olszewski

Washington City Paper

Like most of its characters, Twelve is too cool for school.

August 6, 2010 Full Review Source: Moving Pictures Magazine

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Annlee Ellingson

Moving Pictures Magazine

Another disappointing portrait of rich spoiled kids based on an estimable novel, though you can't blame the actors for the shallow, glitzy tale, directed by Joel Schumacher.

August 6, 2010 Full Review Source: EmanuelLevy.Com

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Emanuel Levy

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Bleak, intense look at the high life of NYC's young elites.

August 6, 2010 Full Review Source: Common Sense Media

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S. Jhoanna Robledo

Common Sense Media

Twelve is so much less than zero.

August 6, 2010 Full Review Source: Austin Chronicle

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Marjorie Baumgarten

Austin Chronicle

Plays like a melodramatic rip-off of Bret Easton Ellis books about insufferable kids obsessed with money, drugs and themselves.

August 6, 2010 Full Review Source: Seattle Times

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Ted Fry

Seattle Times

It's been about 15 years since we had a really major and unpleasant Teen Nihilism movie to feel good about...so teen audiences should soak this one right up.

August 5, 2010 Full Review Source: Movies.com

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Dave White

Movies.com

Like listening to an audiobook while perusing an interior-design magazine.

August 4, 2010 Full Review Source: Las Vegas Weekly

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Josh Bell

Las Vegas Weekly

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[My predicted rating: 3This film almost has good points and could have made it as good film, perhaps if the acting was a little more gritty and parts of the plot were tidied up it would have been. In a world full of materialistic teens, the only one with a heart seems to be Drug Dealer "White Mike". In the tough

October 16, 2010

Lady D'arbanville

Super Reviewer

Such a dull and boring movie. I stopped at the 10 minute mark. That narrator was killing me. His monotone voice giving me useless background information that I didn't need to know and didn't give a fuck about. Omggggg I didn't even watch it for that long, but it drove me insane. I HATE narrators in a movie; it ruins

September 4, 2011

J P

Super Reviewer

Twelve Quotes

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1. Narrator: So you're born in the capital of the world and you can never escape. And that's how it is because that's how everyone wants it to be. It is all about want. No one needs anything here. It is about when you wake up in the morning and the snow is already coming down and it's bright between the buildings where the sun falls but already dark where the shadows are. And it's all about the want. What do you want? Because if you don't want something you've got nothing. You are adrift. You're washed away and then buried under the snow in shadow. And when in the spring the snow melts, no one will remember where you were frozen and buried. And you will no longer be anywhere.
– Submitted by Kim L (13 months ago)
1. Narrator: You will not be remembered if you die now. You'll be buried and mourned by a few and what more can you ask for? The world will spiral from underneath you and you are either too smart or too dumb to find God. Maybe you are angry. Only because the way out is through love. And you are just horny and lonely.
– Submitted by Chris P (13 months ago)
1. Sara: I have lots of boyfriends. I mean, I'm not a slut. But, different guys are interesting for different reasons. You're interesting for a very specific reason.
– Submitted by Chris P (13 months ago)

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