Reach the Rock (1998)

User Rating:

6.6/10   

Director:

William Ryan

Writer (WGA):

John Hughes (written by)

Release Date:

16 October 1998 (USA)

Genre:

Comedy | Drama

Plot:

Two school kids who are best friends are drinking on the side of a river. One friend bets the other...

Plot Keywords:

Rock | Window | Shermer Illinois | Sheriff | Flashback Sequence

Cast

William Sadler	...	Quinn
Alessandro Nivola	...	Robin
Bruce Norris	...	Ernie
Karen Sillas	...	Donna
Brooke Langton	...	Lise
Richard Hamilton	...	Ed
Norman Reedus	...	Danny

MPAA:

Rated R for language.

Runtime:

100 min

Country:

USA

Language:

English

Color:

Color

Sound Mix:

DTS

Certification:

Iceland:L | Portugal:M/12 (video premiere) | USA:R

Filming Locations:

Berrien Springs, Michigan, USA

Company:

Gramercy Pictures (I)

Trivia:

Keep watching after the end credits.

Soundtrack:

Reverse - Migraine

Lite fifties stuff.

The beginning recalls Nicholas Ray's "rebel without a cause"(1955) .What follows is very static and is not unlike a filmed stage production:with its hints at the past and its somewhat tortured characters ,it reminds me of very lite Tennessee Williams or Arthur Miller.Never really funny ,and never really absorbing,in spite of good actors.The brunette character is eminently questionable :it's not the return of Natalie Wood in the movie I mention above.It seems that after a bout of rebellion against daddy ,she returned to his-father-who-owns-the -whole-town apparently without tears.

Does not reach anything.