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Release Date: 02 September, 2003 Retail Price: $9.99 OUR Price: $9.99 You SAVE: $0.00! Cast: Complete Cast (10 total) |
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Wanna be a bad girl? Be one on your own time
This is hardly a new story, but it still effectively told under the grunge setting of the time and the somewhat hoaky lines that Mark Wahlberg says. (And that scene on the roller coaster, I don't care who you are it's not happening that way.)
Reese Witherspoon plays Nicole, a sweet faced 16 year old freshly transported from Seattle to live with her father and step mother. Still somewhat neive and overly friendly with all she meets, she meets a handsome stranger named David (Mark Wahlberg). At first all seems well, as he wins over her parents and they are enjoying the bloom of new love. But David has a dark side, whose jealous nature emerges slowly but surely. Eventually he shows that he doesn't just have a dark side, but is outright dangerous. Lies about the past, violence, and the inevitable ending in a blaze of glory violence take place.
This is a movie all girls should watch, it teaches us all about the bad boys. A part of us is drawn to the bad boy, whose dangerous and somewhat psychotic side appeals to girls. Why? Because we girls want to be bad ourselves and we are trying to live it through the bad boy. Reese Whiterspoon's friend played by Alyssa Milano is the more obvious example. She picks up the ugliest, greasiest man in the room, praces around in her hootchie mama outfits because he wants her to, and allows herself to be used and abused until it's too late. Fortunately for Reese, her sexuality is kept under under more modest wraps.
Of course, we must learn these lessons by doing no matter what your friends, family or even the movies can tell you. Eventually we can see through these thin venirs and get past it. If you want to be a bad girl, be one on your own time. The bad boys of this world are lots of fun, most are tornados in the sack, but cheat left and right, wrap chairs around heads, and will call and ask for bail money. Sell crazy and codependent someplace else.
Roller coaster pal to psycho killer.
Even though this film might be categorized as a guilty pleasure, it still contains excellent early performances by Mark Wahlberg, Reese Witherspoon and a maturing Alyssa Milano. Production value is high, so this is definitely not a B-movie. The well-developed plot is a familiar one - good girl meets great guy who ends up being a psycho. But the lack of originality doesn't take away from the interesting progression of the movie. Directing, editing, writing and acting are still top notch. And, even though Wahlberg's character ends up going off the deep end, he portrays a believable 'normal' guy in the beginning, even providing an intense roller coaster service early in the movie. He made a pretty good psycho, as well. I enjoyed the film and would even watch it again.
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