Tom Pittman isn’t bad as a smart high school student who has the misfortune of having a dad who’s a drunk, and a crush on a flirty sexy bitch who just wants cash. So he decides to rob a $1 million heroin transaction – as you do. Wikipedia pointed out that the plot is pretty much a rip off of The Killing, with a wimpy guy trying to impress his faithless woman by doing a robbery – only for the woman to get her boyfriend to rob the robbers. It actually works pretty well in a high school setting, but director Joel Rapp is no Stanley Kubrick. Very down beat and bleak – dad kills himself, everyone else either dies or goes to gaol. Very low budget – lots of deserted streets and rooms without much in them. Rapp later made The Battle of Blood Island for Roger Corman, who distributed this through his Filmgroup company.
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