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Ralph Brown (writer)
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Release Date:
27 June 2001 (France) more
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12 reasons to live. 12 reasons to die.
Plot:
Two 17-year-old boys mark the new year by doing twelve dangerous but exciting tasks set for them by their friends. full summary | add synopsis
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2 wins more
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Cast

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Marianne Jean-Baptiste ... Veronica
Anastasia Hille ... Shelley

Andrew Lee Potts ... Jake
Bobby Barry ... Steven
Michael Kitchen ... Robin
Sue Johnston ... Mrs. Fisher

Ralph Brown ... Mr. Diamond

Jacqueline Bisset ... Geraldine
Gregg Prentice ... Ben
Zoe Thorne ... Trout
Hannah Faulkner ... Vicky
Liam Barr ... Grebe
Ryan Davenport ... Aziz
Emilie François ... Heather
Nicole Charles ... Luanda
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Oh dear!, 6 December 2003
3/10

There may be a halfway decent film trying to wriggle out of this mess, but as with another British disaster movie (of the unintentional kind), Crush, this film is killed by a ropy screenplay and some horribly two-dimensional characterisation. Michael Kitchen is a fine actor, but his performance here as Stephen's father is just shocking; he could probably drag the scriptwriter down the plughole with him, but either way he is not going to be a movie star if this is the sort of project he gets saddled with. Marianne Jean-Baptiste (another fine actor - when is she going to get another part as good as Secrets & Lies?) is quite unconvincing as a counsellor, in a seriously underwritten part, pretty much the only kind there is in this film apart from the two leads.

As to the two main roles, they have a few good moments, but are asked to make us believe the implausible and the indefensible by the script. The "operation" scene is laughable, which perhaps was the idea, although I would have thought we are supposed to be laughing at the horror of it all, not at the ludicrousness of the action. And when it came to the drug scenes, I confess I eventually had to fast forward through them, so embarrassing were they.

"Crush", incidentally, was almost called "The Sad Fuckers Club"; I'm sure that it was in the task of sanitising it for our protection that a good idea turned into a terrible film. I wonder if this film had a similar working title...

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