All the Rage (1999)

User Rating:

5.5/10   

Director:

James D. Stern

Writer:

Keith Reddin (screenplay)

Genre:

Drama

Plot:

Handguns figure in the intertwining lives of nine people. Warren shoots his wife Helen's lover and his...

Plot Keywords:

Lawyer | Lasersight | Lolita | Paranoid | Weapon

Awards:

7 wins & 1 nomination

Cast

Joan Allen	...	Helen
Jeff Daniels	...	Warren Harding
Robert Forster	...	Tyler
Andre Braugher	...	Tim
Bokeem Woodbine	...	Agee
Anna Paquin	...	Annabel Lee
Wayne Morse	...	Clerk
David Schwimmer	...	Chris
Josh Brolin	...	Tennel
Gary Sinise	...	Morgan
January Jones	...	Janice Taylor
Deborah Offner	...	Secretary
Barb Wallace	...	Diane
Kevin Crowley	...	Ed
Robert Peters	...	Phil

Also Known As:

It's the Rage (USA) (cable TV title)

MPAA:

Rated R for violence and strong language.

Runtime:

99 min

Country:

USA

Language:

English

Color:

Color

Aspect Ratio:

1.85 : 1

Sound Mix:

Dolby Digital

Certification:

Spain:13 | UK:15 | Argentina:13 | Australia:MA | Chile:14 | Peru:14 | USA:R (certificate #36917)

Filming Locations:

Los Angeles, California, USA

Company:

Mutual Films International

Goofs:

Continuity: When Tim and Chris are at the table discussing what time Tim got home, the newspaper in Tim's hands changes position between shots.

Quotes:

Morgan: There's too much information!
[proceeds in shooting the multiple computer screens surrounding him]

Movie Connections:

References "Jesus of Nazareth" (1977)

Soundtrack:

Island Crystal Waters

Uneven satire; powerful edgy critique of the American ethos with a shaky story.

To be taken seriously only as political satire. Quite humorous and edgy, with a sharp script, but spotty continuity in the narrative. Almost more a cartoon than a good story.

None of the characters are believable, which is OK, as they seem to be distillations of types. All of the men in this film are horrible--I wouldn't want a friend or a relative among them. Women are treated as victims, more or less, what spare representation there is of women, though both Joan Allen and Anna Paquin are wonderful in these highly stylized roles.

Jeff Daniels's performance, as are those of most of the other men, are masterpieces of underacting. Gary Sinise and Giovanni Ribisi are given grand opportunities to chew up the scenery, which one may have every expectation either will do, literally, at any moment.

It seems to me this is also less about guns than it is about how guns are a horrible and all too real manifestation of those things--far more terrible and dark--that may have become by now an inalterable part of the American (that is, the U.S. American) character. Some other themes, besides casual (and not so casual) violence--twisted attitudes toward sexuality, the vagaries of the over-hot infotech culture, and our inability to perceive our own psychological deficiencies--are not well integrated.