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Thomas Cavanagh, Ben Foster, Randy Harrison

For the most part it's a tale of a kid, Trevor, who gets picked on a lot a school. Not as much as he used to, because the year before he called in a phony bomb threat complete with a working bomb (min...( read more  read more... )us anything that would actually explode). Because of this parents and teachers are afraid of him, and kids generally avoid him except for a group of outcasts called the "Trogs". As violence by the Jocks against the Trogs escalates, Trevor is the suspect for anything gone wrong, even though he didn't necessarily do anything. One teacher is willing to give Trevor the benefit of the doubt and casts him in a highly contraversial play about, what else? School shootings. It all comes to a head as some other students create a plan to bring guns to school and kill everyone in the cafeteria.

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Unrated, 93 min.

Directed by: Guy Ferland

Release Date: October 13, 2002

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DVD Release Date: January 27, 2004

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  • kiriyamakazou
    June 12, 2009
    kiriyamakazou
    Bang Bang You're Dead tells an excellent story carried by a brilliant Foster. It's a shame that the message is preached so heavily. The main story sees Foster at school a year after he made a threat against the football team. It has gained him both fear, respect and hatred. Soon ...( read more)he hangs in the balance between a teacher that wants to help him and a gang of disturbed youths. It shows the reasons that some people go to such destructive lengths, but never excuses their actions. Some of the writing is quite amateurish, especially a joke that fails every time, where the parents get the name of the play wrong. Luckily most of the younglings bring their A game and leave an impression that the message fails to deliver.
  • creepfreak
    May 10, 2008
    creepfreak
    This is such a great emotional and powerful film. This was a made for TV movie that I first caught when they premiered it on Showtime. It's about a shooting that might possibly take place at a troubled teenagers local high school, and unlike the movie "Elephant" this one gives us...( read more) more insight as to why the troubled teens want to go along with it and focuses a lot more on their emotions. Do not watch this movie if you get depressed easily, because trust me this one is a downer. On the other hand it might actually help you better understand that there are always two sides of the story, and even though these teen offenders wanted to commit such a horrible act, they too were victims as well. Two wrongs do not make a right, and shooting up a school is totally immoral and unjustifiable, but this movie did show that the troubled teens still indeed had much innocence hidden somewhere inside them.

    Ben Foster is amazing in this movie. His character in the film goes by the name of Trevor Adams, who was recently suspended from his school after he had made a bomb threat. The other teenagers would constantly pick on Trevor, making his life a living hell, but not so much after he returned to his school again. Because of his previous threat, Trevor had put a lot of fear into many of the students, which led them to kind of stay away from Trevor. The only person in the school who seems to understand Trevor is a film teacher named Val Duncan, who asks Trevor to star in a school play about school violence, something that Trevor seems to know a little about. There is also a new girl in school who seems to take a likening in Trevor, and even tries reaching out to him. But there are still things in Trevor's life that he can't escape and when another group of troubled teens, who also get picked on and call themselves "Trogs", start battling it out with the jocks they ask Trevor that he join them. Trevor's now torn from his decision between joining the Trogs or listening to his film teacher's helpful advice. The big problem for Trevor now is that the Trogs actually plan on shooting up their high school and killing all the trouble making jocks.

    Watching Ben Foster's character in this movie I swear it's like you can almost feel his pain. He plays it so damn well and I never knew when the hell his character was just going to snap with fucking rage. You can tell that his character in the movie was really a good kid at heart, but sadly the people around him just made his life a living hell (which he records on his video camera by the way). The other troubled teens also play a very good part, and believe it or not, you might actually find yourself looking up to these kids at certain points. Everything that these kids go through is just so sad. Again, this movie is very depressing but you should all check it out if you can.

    By the way, this movie is actually based on a school play and they show it to students in many, many high schools. There is a great message that's told through the play, as well as in the movie.
  • EarthlyAlien
    February 11, 2008
    EarthlyAlien
    Every single American teacher and parent should be compelled to watch this. It actually makes you understand those kids who grab a gun and start shooting everything and everyone. I can't honestly say I would never do the same if I lived in that country...
  • ShysubGirl
    November 4, 2006
    ShysubGirl
    Ben Foster was fantastic in this. One of the few very good TV movies.
  • ileo
    December 16, 2007
    ileo
    Great!
  • skywalkersdream
    November 17, 2009
    skywalkersdream
    This movie will really make you think. Its worth the rental if you feel the need to see what can turn a good kid to guns...
  • ElCochran90
    September 18, 2009
    ElCochran90
    Interesting concept of which I found myself very identified with. You should check this one out at least once.

    57/100
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    September 10, 2009
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  • pauladm87
    July 12, 2009
    pauladm87
    Siempre que la veo pienso que es el tipo de pelicula que se deberia ver en las escuelas y asi reflexionar sobre el comportamiento de los adolescentes Y adultos!! Muy buenaaa
  • superhustle23
    April 3, 2009
    superhustle23
    MAN IT'S VERY GUD BUT I FEEL BAD TO HIM LIKE BULLY TO HIM THAT NOT RIGHT WAY.. PLUS I WONT BRING GUN BEC THIS FUK CRAZY!!! ANYWAY IT'S MAKE ME TO FEEL MUST CHANGE MYSELF NOT SAME MYSELF....

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  • missionaborted
    July 22, 2007
    missionaborted
    This should be shown in every high school. Such an amazing film. Ben Foster can do no wrong <3
  • malouza
    June 1, 2007
    malouza
    It's a great movie. Every word in it has so much meaning, and is so true. Everyone should see it.
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