A police detective uncovers a conspiracy behind a case involving a high-school guidance counselor when accusations of rape are made against him by two female students.A police detective uncovers a conspiracy behind a case involving a high-school guidance counselor when accusations of rape are made against him by two female students.A police detective uncovers a conspiracy behind a case involving a high-school guidance counselor when accusations of rape are made against him by two female students.
- Awards
- 2 wins & 4 nominations
Toi Svane Stepp
- Nicole
- (as Toi Svane)
Eduardo Yáñez
- Frankie Condo
- (as Eduardo Yañez)
Jennifer Taylor
- Barbara Baxter
- (as Jennifer Bini)
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- TriviaBefore the filming of an outdoor scene by the river, a gaffer was fixing the lights and noticed something floating by in the river. It was a dead body. The police were called and when they arrived, they anchored it to the dock, out of sight of the camera. They removed it after the scene was shot.
- GoofsSam writes the words "Sex Crimes" on the chalkboard, but the next shot has it written in smaller letters. The number of underlines also changes. Actually there are four different layouts of this text between cuts.
- Quotes
Detective Ray Duquette: People aren't always what they appear to be. Don't forget that.
- Crazy creditsInterspersed with the credits are additional scenes that explain some of the plot twists.
- Alternate versionsThe Indian theatrical version was cut by the CBFC to achieve an 'A' (restricted to adults) rating in Mumbai. They made cuts to the visual of bare breasts during a love making scene, the visuals of Lombardo touching the girls' breast kneeling before her and lifting her skirt, removing her panting, sucking her breast, pouting her panties, her breasts, the love making of the three persons in bed, and the visuals of Kelly getting out of the swimming pool with the camera focusing on her body. Cuts were made to some lines in dialogues. "Fucking me in the ass", "motherfucker", "nail his balls", "fucking little ass", "stupid c*nt" and "cocksucker". The uncut version of the film was later re-classified 'U/A' (parental guidance) by the CBFC in Bangalore in 2013.
- ConnectionsEdited into Wild Things: Scenes from the Cutting Room Floor (1998)
Featured review
Lazy exploitation but semi-enjoyable as trashy Saturday night movie
Guidance councillor Sam Lombardo is popular with the kids in a small town. However when he is accused of rape by Kelly, the daughter of the powerful Van Ryan family, he finds this existence starting to fall apart. Things look worse when Sgt.'s Duquette and Perez find that Suzie Toller also claims he raped her. But when the case goes to court with Lombardo defended by Ken Bowden, things take the first of many unexpected twists.
Ask yourself at the start of the movie what you want to get out of it. Are you looking for a smart thriller that will leave you breathless or are you looking for a couple of sexy moments where gorgeous girls get naked and kiss each other? If you want the former then `The Usual Suspects' is probably still available at your local video store. If you want the latter then this will suit you down to the ground.
Sadly I expected a sexually charged thriller and was disappointed to find it didn't really deliver. The first half of the story is good as it feels it is building to something you know things are not as simple as they seem, but what is behind it all. The answer to this question is a let down and, worse still, it sparks a final hour of one twist after another each being more and more silly than the last. This really spoils it as it isn't clever it just tries to look clever by trying to confuse the audience the end result is boredom, tiredness and a feeling of really not caring any longer. After a while the twists become obvious I began to expect the most absurd thing and in most cases it came true.
The sexy stuff is good however but if you want that then why not just rent a soft porn title instead? The girl-girl stuff and the nudity simply isn't enough reason to watch this although I admit that Richards is gorgeous and it is quite pleasant to see her and Campbell get it on.
Dillon leads an impressive cast on paper but few are allowed to shine. He himself is quite dull lifeless. Bacon is clearly a bigger actor that the role appears to need and hence spoils some of the later twists by his presence. Richards and Campbell are good but only because they are only needed to look sexy and seductive, something they do well. Russell and Wagner are wasted and Murray is trapped doing a lazy neck-brace joke for his scenes.
Overall this is worth watching once with a pizza and a beer. The twist are silly but may do you if you want something trashy while the sexy stuff is pretty well done but does feel like the film is exploiting it's audience by delivering nudity to cover the plot holes. Trashy, slightly exploitative and only worth watching if you're in a lazy mood.
Ask yourself at the start of the movie what you want to get out of it. Are you looking for a smart thriller that will leave you breathless or are you looking for a couple of sexy moments where gorgeous girls get naked and kiss each other? If you want the former then `The Usual Suspects' is probably still available at your local video store. If you want the latter then this will suit you down to the ground.
Sadly I expected a sexually charged thriller and was disappointed to find it didn't really deliver. The first half of the story is good as it feels it is building to something you know things are not as simple as they seem, but what is behind it all. The answer to this question is a let down and, worse still, it sparks a final hour of one twist after another each being more and more silly than the last. This really spoils it as it isn't clever it just tries to look clever by trying to confuse the audience the end result is boredom, tiredness and a feeling of really not caring any longer. After a while the twists become obvious I began to expect the most absurd thing and in most cases it came true.
The sexy stuff is good however but if you want that then why not just rent a soft porn title instead? The girl-girl stuff and the nudity simply isn't enough reason to watch this although I admit that Richards is gorgeous and it is quite pleasant to see her and Campbell get it on.
Dillon leads an impressive cast on paper but few are allowed to shine. He himself is quite dull lifeless. Bacon is clearly a bigger actor that the role appears to need and hence spoils some of the later twists by his presence. Richards and Campbell are good but only because they are only needed to look sexy and seductive, something they do well. Russell and Wagner are wasted and Murray is trapped doing a lazy neck-brace joke for his scenes.
Overall this is worth watching once with a pizza and a beer. The twist are silly but may do you if you want something trashy while the sexy stuff is pretty well done but does feel like the film is exploiting it's audience by delivering nudity to cover the plot holes. Trashy, slightly exploitative and only worth watching if you're in a lazy mood.
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- Sep 19, 2002
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- Criaturas salvajes
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- Budget
- $20,000,000 (estimated)
- Gross US & Canada
- $30,147,739
- Opening weekend US & Canada
- $9,622,444
- Mar 22, 1998
- Gross worldwide
- $30,166,293
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