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Overview

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5.9/10   12,884 votes
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Director:
Writer (WGA):
Christopher Crowe (written by)
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Release Date:
12 April 1996 (USA) more
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With boyfriends like this, who needs enemies? Not you. more
Plot:
A 16 year old girl takes up with a charming young man who quickly shows his colors when he beats a friend simply for walking with her and then goes totally ballistic after she tries to break up with him. full summary | add synopsis
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1 win & 1 nomination more
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Top Ten High School Horror Movies: 1996 - Present
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Cast

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Mark Wahlberg ... David McCall

Reese Witherspoon ... Nicole Walker

William Petersen ... Steve Walker

Amy Brenneman ... Laura Walker

Alyssa Milano ... Margo Masse
Christopher Gray ... Toby

Tracy Fraim ... Logan
Gary Riley ... Hacker

Jason Kristofer ... Terry

Jed Rees ... Knobby
Todd Caldecott ... Gary Rohmer
John Oliver ... Eddie Clark
David Fredericks ... Larry O'Brien
Ravinder Toor ... Counterman

Andrew Airlie ... Alex McDowell
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Also Known As:
No Fear (USA) (working title)
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MPAA:
Rated R for strong graphic violence and terror, sexuality, language and drug use.
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97 min
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During the scene where William Petersen (Mr.Walker) is ransacking the house that Mark Wahlberg (David) lives in, "Chucky" from the Child Play movies can be seen briefly on the mantle in his room. more
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Continuity: When Nicole gets up from playing a video game with her brother, her video game avatar continues to jump about and fight on the television screen. more
Quotes:
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Laura Walker: [calling upstairs to Nicole in the shower] Nicole, save some hot water for your father!
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3 out of 3 people found the following review useful.
Not just a simple case of harassment, 13 January 2009
6/10
Author: sol1218 from brooklyn NY

**SPOILERS** Your usual psycho movie with a bit of a twist, like snapping one's neck, that has to do with this loved crazed teenager David McCall, Mark Wahlberg, who just can't let go of the object of his obsession pretty blond high school student Nicole Walker, Reese Witherspoon, whom he want's to be his "woman" even if it kills her!

Meeting David through a mutual friend Margo Masse, Alyssa Milano, Nicole is completely captivated by the handsome and muscular young man's shyness and sincerity towards her. As we, and Nicole, soon find out David has a past that he wants people, especially Nicoles parents, not to not know anything about.

Orphaned early in life David became an incorrigible youth that lead him from one broken home, in trying to get him adopted, to another. Now in his teens David has drifted into Seattle and started this gang of both drug dealing and drug partying thugs that Margo, Nicole' best friend, got involved with. David's true personality comes to the surface when he catches Nicole with her friend Gary, Todd Caldecott, outside of school kissing and almost beats the young man into a coma! Why this dangerous lunatic wasn't arrested and put away, with the criminal record he already had, shows how slow and ineffective the justice system really is.

Worming his way into both Nicole's heart and home David starts to get to work on both her parents Steve and Laura Walker, William Petersen & Amy Brenneman, with his charm and and boyish innocence. It's Nicole's dad Steve who at first sees what a lowlife and dangerous rat, in his little boy lost and without love routine, David is and this results in him being the major target, when he goes wacko, of David's mindless violence. When Nicole goes to pay David a surprise visit she sees just exactly what he's really all about. Peeking inside David's pad, a drug den, Nicoel's sees David and his gang partying and shooting up with her friend, who looks like she's totally wiped out, Margo as the star attraction!

It's when Steve after taking all the cr*p that David could dish out, on him and his family, goes to his gang's clubhouse drug den and sees among other outrages that he secretly, after having sex with her, stole his daughter's panties-to prove that he did it- that he finally loses his cool! Going berserk Steve wrecks the place together with all the drugs and drug paraphernalia thats there! It's after that when things, if they weren't already, really start to get out of hand in the movie. A mad as hell David, now seeking bloody revenge, and his gang get so carried away in their actions against the Walkers that they not only break into their well fortified home and but even go so far as to murder, if that's the word for it, the family pet and guard dog Kaiser by decapitating him!

The final few minutes in the movie-with his gang members by then either killed or put to flight- has the by now totally deranged David go after, after almost beating him to death, Steve as his "love" Nicoel stands helplessly by in not being able to do anything to save of father from getting is brains blown out! It's that fear on Nicoel's part that has her do what she should have done much earlier in the movie! Stick it to her deranged psycho lover and stick it where it hurts most!

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