A darkly romantic story of murder and redemption, set against an eerily familiar American landscape.A darkly romantic story of murder and redemption, set against an eerily familiar American landscape.A darkly romantic story of murder and redemption, set against an eerily familiar American landscape.
- Awards
- 3 nominations
- Coach
- (as Marshall Teague)
- Teacher
- (as Anthony C. Chow)
- Moznick
- (as Blake C. Shields)
- Director
- Writer
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Storyline
Did you know
- TriviaLoosely based on Fyodor Dostoevsky's Crime and Punishment.
- Quotes
Vincent: I used to think if I killed somebody I would want to go to the cemetery and apologize. That's not really what guilt is though. Guilt's a feeling you have towards people who are living. It's like everyday you're out there shaking hands, talking. But you, the guilty person, you know that it's all unreal. It's like guilt is this secret inside of you that destroys the fabric of everything, and then everything's unreal. You can't even have a life. But it's not necessary for it to destroy you. You just have to face it.
While Dostoyevsky made his point with words, Rob Schmidt did the same with the films imagery which truly was both narcotic and haunting. He would make you feel as if you were in some drug induced dream/nightmare. You felt as if you were trapped between Heaven and Hell, happiness and sorrow, love and loss.
As the story progresses you watch the ghosts of Roseanne (Monica Keena) slowly absorb her. She goes from this glowing image of beauty to a shadow of a human being. It's stark and disturbing. While Vincent (Vincent Kartheiser) the seemingly gloomy one, who loves her from the beginning of the film is the sole voice of reason, hope, and beauty in her slowly cascading world of tragedies.
The film epitomizes the continuous hopelessness that many today feel but refuse to acknowledge. Although, I think what the film does best is that it shows us these sadnesses while reinforcing us with the concepts that we can make anything happen if we want to badly enough. Good or bad, we are the only ones responsible for our fates.
- lasherxl
- Aug 9, 2001
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Details
- Release date
- Country of origin
- Language
- Also known as
- Crime & Punishment in Suburbia
- Filming locations
- California State Polytechnic University, Pomona, California, USA(Prison exteriors)
- Production companies
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Box office
- Gross US & Canada
- $26,394
- Opening weekend US & Canada
- $9,893
- Sep 17, 2000
- Runtime1 hour 40 minutes
- Color
- Sound mix
- Aspect ratio
- 1.85 : 1