Amanda Peet, Brian Vincent, Catherine Hicks, Dechen Thurman, Eddie Malavarca ...( see more  see more... ) , Gabriel Olds , Joseph Siravo , Lori Heuring , Matthew Lillard , Neil Patrick Harris , Stephen Pearlman

In the near future when high school student Arnold Mosk (Neil Patrick Harris) is caught abusing drugs, he's sentenced to a controversial and violent rehabilitation program nicknamed the Animal Room, w...( read more  read more... )here the dangerous incarcerated youth are allowed to run wild. Soon, Arnold finds himself in a fight for his life as vicious gang leader Doug Van Housen (Matthew Lillard) begins terrorizing him in this gritty drama.

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R, 98 min.

Directed by: Craig Singer

Release Date: December 31, 1999

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DVD Release Date: April 11, 2000

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  • October 21, 2009
    WTF. This movie is an editing nightmare. So many times it starts to go somewhere and then completely leaves you hanging, and changes course. For example, out of nowhere the dad of a kid they beat up pulls up and blows one of the bad kids away with a shotgun (a total lacky kid w...( read more)ho had hardly anything to do with it) and drives off. He had no way of knowing who did it to his kid. They never even resolve if the kid died or not, or what they did with him. The friends of the bad kid never talk about how the guy got blown away. The dad never shoots anyone else and they never even acknowlege that it happens. Its as if they filmed 20 other scenes about it and then had to cut them out, but left in his death scene so that we wouldn't wonder where his character went. THe whole movie is like this, and top it off with horrible people that nobody cares about as all of the cast. And what's up with the guy who decides one day to be Doogie Howser's best friend again? He's a bit creepy don't you think? He's his new best friend to the point of ninja swording somebody for him? Anyways. Matthew Lillard needs to die, and this movie only helps to confirm this.
  • October 14, 2008
    The acting by the main characters wasgood, but the story line was weak and the ending sucked...Had potential to be a much better movie
  • April 2, 2008
    teen problems, showing a group of school kids behaving very bad, and the good guys caught inbetween, and the schools way of dealing with it, its ok, a early mathew illard film, before scream,
  • February 18, 2008
    I didn't like it much but Matthew Lillard is cool.
  • April 24, 2006
    I didn't really ilke it, i didn't see the point in it so i found it kinda dumb and pointless, BLAH

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