It`s The Rage (US)

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When everyone`s armed and dangerous, one wrong move can get you killed
Certificate: R
Running Time: 98 mins
Retail Price: $24.95
Release Date:
Content Type: Movie

Synopsis:
Enter into the world of seven strangers - each of whom find their lives changed when their fates collide at gunpoint. Helen (Joan Allen) and Warren (Jeff Daniels) Harding are an affluent couple on the brink of divorce. Their separation causes their lives to intersect with eclectic and tormented individuals including a paranoid computer mogul (Gary Sinise), an adulterous lawyer (Andre Braugher), a disillusioned cop (Robert Forster), a jilted lover (David Schwimmer), a video store manager (Josh Brolin), a street urchin (Anna Paquin) and her schizophrenic brother (Giovanni Ribisi).

Through a series of coincidences, this unpredictable story touches the lives of each of these strangers, lovers and acquaintances and examines the anger within us all.

Special Features:
Interactive Menus
Scene Access
Audio Commentary Track with Director Jim Stern
Biographies and Filmographies of Cast and Filmmakers
Behind-the-Scenes Featurette
Theatrical Trailer

Video Tracks:
Widescreen Anamorphic 1.85:1

Audio Tracks:
Dolby Digital 5.1 English
Dolby Digital Mono Spanish

Subtitle Tracks:
English
Spanish
CC: English

Directed By:
James D. Stern

Written By:
Keith Reddin

Starring:
Gary Sinise
Josh Brolin
David Schwimmer
Wayne Morse
Anna Paquin
Bokeem Woodbine
Andre Braugher
Robert Forster
Jeff Daniels
Joan Allen

Casting By:
Mary Vernieu
Anne McCarthy

Soundtrack By:
Mark Mothersbaugh

Director of Photography:
Alex Nepomniaschy

Editor:
Tony Lombardo

Costume Designer:
Edi Giguere

Production Designer:
Jerry Fleming

Producer:
Mary Vernieu
James D. Stern
Ash R. Shah
Abbie Phillips
Anne McCarthy
Peter Gilbert
Michael Beugg

Executive Producer:
William Tyrer
Gary Levinsohn
Todd King
Mark Gordon
Adam Del Deo
Christopher Ball

Distributor:
Columbia / Tristar

Your Opinions and Comments

6 / 10

So many stars. So many guns. So little movie. That about sums it up for this movie. It deals with the obsession for guns, but never makes sense and gets too complicated
due to its multiple plots and sub-plots. The end result is a senseless and boring 95 minutes of nothing.
The video transfer is average. While there are no compression signs, there are numerous scratches and dust particles all along the movie.
The DD 5.1 soundtrack is disappointing. While the movie is mostly dialog driven, I expected at least the various gun scenes to utilize the surrounds, yet they are hardly ever used.
The menus are all still.
The extras include a commentary and a behind the scenes look.
Bottom line - despite the great cast (who cannot act much due to the lack of script), this is a total BOMB. Avoid the rage. Avoid this movie.

posted by Zvi Josef on 14/8/2001 00:50

4 / 10

Bit of a weird one this… lots of inter-woven stories that are all supposed to come together at the end, but they kind of don't. On paper, it's a great cast line-up with some fairly big names - Robert Forster, Gary Sinise, Joan Allen, Jeff Daniels, David Schwimmer, Anna Paquin and Giovanni Ribisi among others.

Unfortunately the script really is not strong enough to hold it all together, and what could be a very good film with some serious points to make, is instead a bit of a mess.

On the extras front we have got a director's commentary that I could not bring myself to listen to, a 15 minute making of with interviews from the cast & director which is above average, brief bios & filmographies for the main cast and a trailer.

posted by Rich Davies on 20/9/2002 07:44