All the Rage (1999)

Director:

James D. Stern

Writer:

Keith Reddin (screenplay)

Genre:

Drama

Plot:

Handguns figure in the intertwining lives of nine people. Warren shoots his wife Helen's lover and his...

Plot Keywords:

Lawyer | Gun Control | Paranoia | Weapon | Interracial Relationship

Awards:

7 wins & 1 nomination

Cast

Joan Allen	...	Helen
Jeff Daniels	...	Warren Harding
Robert Forster	...	Tyler
Andre Braugher	...	Tim
Bokeem Woodbine	...	Agee
Anna Paquin	...	Annabel Lee
Wayne Morse	...	Clerk
David Schwimmer	...	Chris
Josh Brolin	...	Tennel
Gary Sinise	...	Morgan
January Jones	...	Janice Taylor
Deborah Offner	...	Secretary
Barb Wallace	...	Diane
Kevin Crowley	...	Ed
Robert Peters	...	Phil

Also Known As:

It's the Rage (USA) (cable TV title)

MPAA:

Rated R for violence and strong language.

Runtime:

99 min

Country:

USA

Language:

English

Color:

Color

Aspect Ratio:

1.85 : 1

Sound Mix:

Dolby Digital

Certification:

Spain:13 | UK:15 | Argentina:13 | Australia:MA | Chile:14 | Peru:14 | USA:R (certificate #36917)

Filming Locations:

Los Angeles, California, USA

Company:

Mutual Films International

Goofs:

Continuity: When Tim and Chris are at the table discussing what time Tim got home, the newspaper in Tim's hands changes position between shots.

Quotes:

[Annabel Lee walks by]
Warren: Gettin' a venereal disease just lookin' at her...

Movie Connections:

References The Replacement Killers (1998)

Soundtrack:

BTK

Goes nowhere...

This film, in spite of having a very decent cast, goes nowhere in trying to tie in handguns to the intertwined lives of several different people. I found the film weird, but not in an intellectually good way; it's as if the writer/director just wanted to creep us out a little bit, but instead of succeeding at this, just made one boring dud. The script is poor; characters pause too long to deliver lines (probably scripted and not the actor's fault), or say rather pointless, uninteresting things. Nowhere in the movie does it delve into why Americans want handguns. Only a few handguns appear in the movie, and they seem more of a prop in order to give the pointless "climax" more punch, I guess. I thought I was going to watch a film where the power of owning a handgun would transform people's personalities, and have them do crazy things, but the film wasn't that deep. The characters were already rather despicable and unrealistic, so you just don't even care about them. Josh Brolin's character is especially awkward and unrealistic. The only highlight of the movie was Gary Sinise's very strange Bill Gates type geek/mogul character, which was oddly amusing. Handguns were just a prop, and the device of intertwining a bunch of disparate lives together (a la Short Cuts or Crash-much better films) is just annoying here.