Snapped (1998)

Snapped examines the lives of a colorful group of young people as they try to connect with each other and stay amused in a sleepy Long Island town. Tara, a social outcast reunites with her ... See full summary »

Director:

Jesse Feigelman

Writers:

Ian Chorao, Jesse Feigelman

Stars:

Seymour Cassel, Johnny Zander, David Wheir

Cast

Credited cast:
Seymour Cassel	...	Bob
Johnny Zander	...	Billy
David Wheir	...	Shane
Simon Rex	...	Himself
Rest of cast listed alphabetically:
Andrew Fiscella
Rebekkah Linton Gillett	...	Belinda's friend (as Rebekka Dayton)
Gaby Hoffmann	...	Tara
Elizabeth Regen
Carmella Riley	...	Friend
R.D. Robb	...	Ray
Angel Sing	...	Husband

Storyline

Snapped examines the lives of a colorful group of young people as they try to connect with each other and stay amused in a sleepy Long Island town. Tara, a social outcast reunites with her high school sweetheart Billy who is on the lam from a low-down gangster. When Tara falls for Shane, a voyeuristic loner, who gets thrills from stealing snapshots from the local photo shop where he works, the characters lives intersect in this Lynchian town where still waters run deep.

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Plot Keywords:

photo shop | male nudity | photographer | robbery | long island new york | 

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Taglines:

What's a picture worth?

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Genres:

Drama

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Details

Country:

USA

Release Date:

12 September 1998 (Germany)

Company Credits

Production Co:

Illville Productions

Technical Specs

Runtime:

83 min

Sound Mix:

Dolby SR

Color:

Color

Aspect Ratio:

1.85 : 1

User Reviews

photo-play on words?

Snapped? Photographed? Pushed beyond the breaking point? Insane? You decide.

This film tells the story of three disaffected youths in the Hamptons. One has a dead –end job in a coffee shop and is on the run after mistakenly stealing a bag of money from a small time criminal. The second is his sometime-girlfriend, a photographer obsessed with dead things. The third is a young man who works in a photo shop (where he steals interesting photos) while he avoids calls from his brother in an asylum and tries to sell the family home.

As the story develops, the viewer keeps thinking, `This is not going to end well.' How it ends would be telling, but the film is consistently interesting and worth the viewing. By the end one cares about the outcomes, seemingly more than the characters involved.