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Overview

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Director:
David Nutter
Writer (WGA):
Scott Rosenberg (written by)
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Release Date:
24 July 1998 (USA) more
Genre:
Horror | Thriller more
Tagline:
Perfection is every teenage student's co-pilot. more
Plot:
The new kid in town stumbles across something sinister about the town's method of transforming its unruly teens into upstanding citizens. full summary | add synopsis
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Awards:
1 win & 1 nomination more
User Comments:
Disturbing but entertaining more (219 total)

Cast

  (Cast overview, first billed only)

James Marsden ... Steve Clark

Katie Holmes ... Rachel Wagner

Tobias Mehler ... Andy Effkin

Nick Stahl ... Gavin Strick
Steve Railsback ... Officer Cox

Bruce Greenwood ... Dr. Edgar Caldicott

Katharine Isabelle ... Lindsay Clark

William Sadler ... Dorian Newberry

Ethan Embry ... Allen Clark
Terry David Mulligan ... Nathan Clark
Susan Hogan ... Cynthia Clark

A.J. Buckley ... Charles 'Chug' Roman

Robert Moloney ... Ferry Guy

Derek Hamilton ... Trent Whalen
Dan Zukovic ... Mr. Rooney
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Additional Details

Also Known As:
Disturbing Behaviour (UK)
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MPAA:
Rated R for strong violence, sexuality, language, and drug content.
Runtime:
84 min
Country:
Australia | USA
Language:
English
Color:
Color
Aspect Ratio:
1.85 : 1 more
Sound Mix:
DTS | Dolby SR

Fun Stuff

Trivia:
The personifications of good and evil in the town are named Newberry and Caldicott, which happen to be the names of the two prestigious book prizes awarded by the American Library Association for Excellence in Children's Books (one for novels and one for picture books). more
Goofs:
Errors made by characters (possibly deliberate errors by the filmmakers): Right after the altercation in the English classroom, we see a shot of the chalkboard, and the teacher has misspelled the word "tomorrow," using two "m"s instead of one. more
Quotes:
Steve: Be the ball. more
Movie Connections:
Referenced in The Other Final (2003) more
Soundtrack:
Million Rappers more

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8 out of 9 people found the following comment useful.
Disturbing but entertaining, 17 May 2005
Author: vchimpanzee from North Carolina

Steve and his family move from Chicago to Cradle Bay (which based on a road sign is outside Seattle). We later learn his brother Allen died, and that has something to do with the move. At his new high school, he meets Gavin and U. V., who take drugs and listen to depressing heavy metal music. Gavin has the hots for Lorna, but she's a Blue Ribbon, a member of a group of students that help out in the community and help each other study. Gavin wants nothing to do with these people.

It turns out the Blue Ribbons aren't as goody-goody as they first appear. To call them snobs is an understatement. Anyone who isn't a member is treated like dirt, but of course new members are accepted all the time. The organization had its beginning with a deadly car wreck, and Dr. Edgar Caldicott played a large role in getting it started.

This film reminds me of an episode of 'Smallville', except only the villains (who appear to be the good kids) have the super powers. Or maybe they're not actually super powers. This film had its own version of Belle Reve, where all the Smallville freaks seemed to end up eventually. Also, there was the loud alternative rock music in some scenes and the pleasant classical-style background music in others. I really liked the music in Roscoe's Yogurt Shoppe and in the asylum (I'm referring to Barry Manilow).

I actually found the bad kids appealing in this movie--Gavin, Rachel, and Dickie in particular. The real standout character, though, is the demented janitor Mr. Newberry, who comes across as if Gilbert Gottfried had played the Bill Murray role in 'Caddyshack'. Another good though brief performance came from Julie Patzwald as Betty Caldicott.

This was a little on the violent side, but I guess for the type of movie it wasn't too bad. A lot of bad language seemed to have been cleaned up for TV. And I'm not sure whether this is something that was edited out, but in one scene, the position of a girl's head relative to her date suggests something that happened in Bill Clinton's White House.

It wasn't a classic by any means, but it wasn't too bad.

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