Fresh and Exciting

Awesome Movie

A lot more amusing than I thought it would be.

The acting is good, and the firecracker script has some excellent ideas.

The following review I am about to post for the movie The In Crowd will contain several spoilers throughout.The In Crowd stars Susan Ward (Brittany) and Lori Heuring (Adrien) The movie tells the story of Adrien who has been released from a psychiatric ward for violent behaviour back into society and is given a second chance when she is employed to work at a rich country club. Adrien become friends with a popular girl called Brittany who befriends her and includes her into the circle of friends she has. Everything between the ladies is alright for a while and then take a turn for the worse when Brittany shows a change in behaviour towards the people around her and has some psychotic tendencies. It is not until later on that Brittany's past is revealed to Adrien and is much darker and there is a fight for survival. Will Adrien be able to escape Brittany's wrath or will she become another one of her victims?I enjoyed The In Crowd, yes it is portrayed as another typical thriller movie however the setting for most of the scenes at the country club are different to any other similar films I have seen. I did like the two main characters Brittany and Adrien as well and they both shared some memorable scenes in the film especially towards the end where more secrets and lies are exposed and their failing friendship is even more dramatized.I would rate this film 7 out of 10!

SPOILERS:I really didn't care for this at all. I am always up for a good psychological thriller but there wasn't much here with this one. The story was very predictable and while I did not expect it to break any new ground at least it could have been somewhat interesting. Alas that was not to be. This movie bordered on dull. Actually scratch the "bordered", it WAS dull. And rather annoying.There wasn't one surprise throughout the whole thing and many of the characters were very one dimensional. The length of the movie didn't help. It's not that it is unreasonably long, but it FEELS like it is. One feels every second of this movie and when your waiting for a movie to end that is definitely not a good thing.Plus there are oodles of other movies similar to this one and many of those just do the whole storyline better. The In Crowd lacked that compelling component that can sometimes make a psychological thriller, even a not so good one, really really fun to watch. But it was kind of lackluster and it also didn't help that there was very little done in other areas as well such as cinematography and music.Speaking of the music, it was very very annoying. It didn't fit with the movie at all. And the movie itself just crept along and almost every scene could easily have been predicted. Plus there's very little of the campy factor so it doesn't even venture into the "so bad it's good" area.As far as positives go I will say this is not unwatchable and watching it is not an unbearable experience. but it is rather bland and is easily lost among a sea of other similar such movies. I wouldn't call this the worst of the worst but it sounded to be much more fun then it wound up being and is definitely below average. Great title that can hook one into wanting to check it out but is ultimately a letdown.

This movie was so boring I could not even finish watching it and found myself falling asleep at times. Iwish someone at the blockbuster I rented it from would have said something and saved me the four buck I tossed down the drain to see it. the only reason I rented it is because the comment on the back said "a little wild things and a little i know what you did last summer" YEAH RIGHT only if wild things was ultra sanitized and the murders in i know what you did last summer were lame and predictable. I recommend if your considering watching this movie Don't WASTE YOUR TIME. I would recommend Dukes of Hazzard with jessica simpson before i even considered telling even my worst enemy that this movie is anywhere near a good flick. Sara Michelle Geller should dance around in happieness that she doesn't have this terrible flop of a movie on her resume

In Crowd, The (2000) Susan Ward, Lori Heuring, Matthew Settle, Nathan Bexton, Ethan Erickson, Laurie Fortier, Kim Murphy, Jay R. Ferguson, A.J. Buckley, Daniel Hugh Kelly, Erinn Bartlett, D: Mary Lambert. Rehab patient Heuring takes employment at a summer country club where she befriends the head hottie (Ward) of a popular clique with a skeleton in the closet! Either way, it fails on levels of a slasher flick and WILD THINGS or whatever it's trying to be, with a young, attractive cast that could pose for a J. Crew catalog pin-up, but don't have the acting chops, which doesn't hold this `thriller' together. No wonder Sarah Michelle Gellar turned down Ward's role. Running Time: 104 minutes and rated PG-13 for language, sexuality, /nudity, violence and teen drinking. RATING: * ½ (out of ****)