Wow! Such a good movie.
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... View MoreThe movie turns out to be a little better than the average. Starting from a romantic formula often seen in the cinema, it ends in the most predictable (and somewhat bland) way.
... View MoreThis is a small, humorous movie in some ways, but it has a huge heart. What a nice experience.
... View MoreI had fun watching this, it was good, not great but interesting, funny (in a darkly wicked way) and filled with great performances from an ensemble cast. Its along the lines of 'Crash' but in a more comedic way. These are all bad people or at least pretty dumb people making bad choices and dealing with the consequences.There are 5 separate stories being told here and I liked how all of them slowly converged, I thought it was clever storytelling, so that by the end a complete story has been told, even if it all did seem sort of pointless.Ensemble casts are always fun as you never know who's going to pop up especially if its an older movie (this is from 2003) then you usually catch some up and comers. The performances here are all well done and I loved seeing Patrick Swayze again in a different type of role, but the whole cast does a great job. Hillary Swank stands out as a defeated store clerk, also including Barbara Hershey, Ben Foster, Henry Thomas, Jason Segel, Colin Hanks, Shawn Hatosy, and a shout out to the dog.The movie takes place in a small, sleepy, US town at around 11pm and follows the lives of several seemingly unrelated people as they intersect because of a car accident. The story then backtracks or has two stories running parallel as they all join together. Events are fast paced, a bit random, spontaneous, idiotic and pretty funny. The soundtrack is also on the random side of things as it occasionally sounds like a B-grade horror movie. 7/14/15
... View MoreJack (Henry Thomas) is a habitual drunk driver and some people drop a body off an overpass onto his car. He's scared and shove it into his trunk. This is the first of several interconnected stories from that night taking place at 11:14.There are some great actors in this little movie. It's a black comedy with a disturbed sense of humor. Most of it don't work at all. Some of it is head scratching. A few actually illicit a smile. Director/Writer Greg Marcks has woven together a lot of white trash chaos. It mostly doesn't work but I wanted it to work better so badly. It has this slow energy that can't get the movie up to full speed.
... View MoreAn ingenious tripwire thriller, where a series of unrelated events all come together in the wrong place at the wrong time - 11:14 pm.Writer-director Greg Marcks crafts 11:14 like a master weaver of spells, throwing us into compelling vignettes already in progress, in the grand tradition of Tarantino. That being said, 11:14 is reminiscent of Nolan's MEMENTO, where we see the time stream reversed after every vignette to show us different perspectives of one crazy night in a small American town. The driving narrative gives us no pause to consider exactly how each of five tales jigsaws into its adjacent tale; we just know we're running down an antelope with an indie tracksuit on.Five groups of people, five bad decisions, five tales of woe, five tales of deceit, chronology bent out of shape, until all the time streams converge with explosive consequences. Doc Emmett Brown warned us what would happen if time streams collided.Henry Thomas drives down a deserted stretch of highway at night. As he drives under an overpass - a body falls onto his car. It is 11:14 pm. He has been drinking, he has no license and now there's a dead body by the side of the road with him. A lady driving by thinks he has hit a deer, calls the cops "to help" and drives off. See what happens after he stuffs the body in his trunk and a cop arrives...Colin Hanks leads a trio of hooligans (wasn't that what young, rowdy boys were called back in the '70s before wiggas and gangstas?), tearing up suburbia in his tiny minivan. (One of my friends owned a van exactly like this when we were - ahem - hooligans. He affectionately called it the "rice bubble.") His van clock reads 11:09. They're doing nothing outlandishly evil, just drinking and driving, punching each other, throwing a burning book out the window, pissing out the window and generally not paying attention to the road - until they slam into a girl. 11:14. They hit the brakes as the girl is thrown forward in a crumpled heap, dead. A young man runs to the girl's body, tragically bends over it, then resolutely pulls out a gun and starts firing on the rice bubble as it screeches off. See what happens when the guy who was pissing out the window (Ben Foster) realizes his penis was chopped off by the rice bubble's slamming window at the accident site...Patrick Swayze (who loves his daughter but hates her boyfriend) takes his dog out for a walk at 11:04 - and finds Boyfriend dead in a graveyard, with Daughter's keys near the body. See what happens at 11:14 when he tries to dispose of the body to protect his daughter...At 10:58, Shawn Hatosy petitions his mini-mart co-worker (Hilary Swank) to help him rob the joint, to pay for his girlfriend's abortion. See what happens when Swank insists he has to shoot her to make the robbery look legit...Rachel Leigh Cook is a teen trollop who is conning many teen beaus into thinking she is pregnant with their child and needs cash for an abortion. She has spun a web of duplicity with almost all the males in this twisted tale. See what happens when her car doesn't start at 11:14...Take it for granted this ensemble cast create disturbing, memorable performances, the beauty of the movie is that each of the five groups keeps crossing paths in the tiniest ways that would be negligible and ineffectual were it not for the interesting way we know they are intertwined. Watch for Barbara Hershey and Jason Segel in almost unrecognizable cameos.Oh and - don't be late.
... View More"11:14" is a weird little movie but a good one. It's about a seemingly unconnected group of people whose lives all converge on one another's at approximately 11:14 p.m.I actually liked the movie a lot, but whoever chose the music for the movie did a pretty crappy job, in my opinion, because it makes scenes that would've otherwise felt very suspenseful come across as a little comical, which I think is totally the wrong tone for a movie of this type.The cast is quite good and everybody turns in good performances. There are actually quite a few big names in this movie, which surprisingly didn't lend itself to being a more well known movie than it is, which, suffice it to say, not many people have probably even heard of it.I would recommend checking it out. It's probably not for everybody, but I thought it was really good. I would recommend watching it at nighttime because I think the ambiance helps the enjoyment of the movie. It would seem like sort of an odd movie to watch in the middle of the day, I think.
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