Havoc (2005)
Genre: Crime / Drama
Duration: 85 minuten / 93 minuten (unrated)
Country:
United States / Germany
Directed by: Barbara Kopple
Stars: Anne Hathaway, Bijou Phillips and Freddy Rodríguez
IMDb score:
5,4 (22.177)
Releasedate: 16 October 2005
Havoc plot
"Too much is never enough."
Allison and Emily, two wealthy, spoiled, white teenage girls from an affluent area of Los Angeles, become fascinated by the hip hop culture of the East LA ghetto. Determined to discover the 'gangsta' lifestyle for themselves, they try to be included in this scene . But when they come into contact with a vicious Mexican drug dealer and his Latino 'goers', life on the streets of East LA turns out to be not only exciting, but simply deadly dangerous.
Actors and actresses
Allison Lang
Emily
Amanda
Stuart Lang
Eric
Hector
Joanna Lang
Toby
Chino
Reviews & comments
BBarbie
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- 12893 messages
- 7675 votes
Not "Boyz N The Hood" of course (far from it), but not as bad as they claim. I thought Anne Hathaway and Freddy Rodriguez acted pretty well. Anne's topless scenes are not really shocking. And that Bijou Phillips can also be seen well, I already knew from "Bully" (Larry Clark, 2001). The film interview, which is used as a common thread, does have a number of loose stitches.
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yeyo
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- 6368 messages
- 4683 votes
How did this teensploitation gem escape my eye? Naive, but well-meaning sluts decide to trade their wannabe gangsta boyfriends for a rougher one - Latino drug dealers from East LA - with dire consequences. Film is rather caricatural, but nevertheless (or precisely because of that?) still fun. The plot is a bit like Spring Breakers, but less good. It is unclear to me what exactly the director wanted to convey. Here and there some tentative attempts to demonstrate the isolation of certain communities, but that clashes somewhat with the high Thirteen / shock value / Lifetime content. The denouement is a bit wrong and seems to say girls, if you're looking for it yourself, don't come and bleit afterwards when you get raped in your hole, The interview scenes that are supposed to reveal that the main character is actually very 'deep' should not have been for me.
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mjk87 (moderator films)
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- 14848 messages
- 4666 votes
Very mediocre, the film didn't grab me for a moment. Somehow this didn't feel believable anywhere, more like clean-play. The two girls still act nice, but all those friends and men around them were acting very tough. The film never gets exciting, fascinating, funny or whatever. Visually nice, yes, although there is little atmosphere of East LA and LA as a whole. It is nice and short and the film is also over quite quickly, so the pace was still good. 1.5*.
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