Crime + Punishment in Suburbia
A darkly romantic story of murder and redemption, set against an eerily familiar American landscape.
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"The 3 best aspects to this film are the acting, cinematography and soundtrack. This film just made me a big fan of Monica Keena and Vincent Kartheiser. Both delivered dynamic and intriguing performances. Monica Keena's character is transformed throughout the film and she's able to convey that arc with great subtlety. Vincent Kartheiser's character was also conveyed very well, not overdone like so many other goth/nerd characters are portrayed. The cinematography was great - visually compelling imagery and an unsteadiness throughout that lends to the feel of uneasiness with wh..."
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Rob Schmidt said that the film is a very loose adaptation of Fyodor Dostoevsky's 1866 novel "Crime and Punishment." "The main character kills a terrible person, conceals the crime, is consumed by it, suffers secretly, confesses and in a spiritual way is reborn. It's just that it takes place in a California high school instead of Siberia," he said. Larry Gross had first written the script in the early 1990s, but it languished on a shelf until a run of high school films became popular in the last half of the decade. The film's original title was "Crime and Punishment in High School," but this was changed after the Columbine High School massacre happened on April 20, 1999.
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A darkly romantic story of murder and redemption, set against an eerily familiar American landscape.