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Overview

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5.3/10   14,107 votes
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Director:
Writer (WGA):
John Pogue (written by)
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Release Date:
31 March 2000 (USA) more
Tagline:
A secret society so powerful, it can give you everything you desire... at a price. more
Plot:
Luke McNamara, a college senior from a working class background joins a secret elitist college fraternity organization called "The Skulls"... more | add synopsis
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Perfectly competent teeny thriller more (178 total)

Cast

  (Cast overview, first billed only)

Joshua Jackson ... Lucas "Luke" McNamara

Paul Walker ... Caleb Mandrake

Hill Harper ... Will Beckford

Leslie Bibb ... Chloe Whitfield

Christopher McDonald ... Martin Lombard

Steve Harris ... Detective Sparrow

William Petersen ... Ames Levritt

Craig T. Nelson ... Litten Mandrake
David Asman ... Jason Pitcairn

Scott Gibson ... Travis Wheeler
Nigel Bennett ... Dr. Rupert Whitney

Andrew Kraulis ... McBride
Derek Aasland ... Sullivan
Jennifer Melino ... J.J.

Noah Danby ... Hugh Mauberson
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Additional Details

Also Known As:
Le clan des Skulls (Canada: French title)
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MPAA:
Rated PG-13 for violence and brief sexuality.
Runtime:
106 min
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1.85 : 1 more
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Trivia:
The boats used for rowing are called sculls, pronounced the same as "skulls". more
Goofs:
Factual errors: The Skulls are famous for tapping fifteen students a year. However the night after Luke is tapped Will asks him when Caleb Mandrake and his seven new friends walk in if he will introduce them. The seven men plus Caleb and Luke equals Nine. Six short of fifteen. more
Quotes:
Will Beckford: If it's secret and elite, it can't be good. more
Movie Connections:
Referenced in Choses secrètes (2002) more
Soundtrack:
Falling more

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Perfectly competent teeny thriller, 31 May 2006
6/10
Author: michaelplewa from United States

Mix schlocky but hilarious Hollywood hack dialogue with equally schlocky but hilarious Hollywood hack plotting, and you get a potent 1-2 sucker punch to your intellect...I call it...THE SKULLS. A delightfully silly movie, it moves briskly through semi-serious conflicts and silly conspiracies, and all with the the intelligence of your average CBS movie of the week. But it has a sense of momentum that you can't escape, and soon your on a ride that combines equal parts laughs and smiles, nothing too grim, but a (for what it is) fanatical devotion to its own plot devices. The maguffin of the Skulls society is their rule book, a device that comes to charming use late in the movie. William Peterson's senator reminds Joshua Jackson repeatedly that every conflict, every ordeal, can be solved within the rule book...and indeed within the world of the Skulls, this book does hold all the answers. Dropping hints here and there as to how it'll all end, the movie has a charming level of mystery, no more sinister or thrilling than The Da Vinci Code, but thankfully much less serious in its handling.

One of my favorite scenes is one of the stupidest. The chosen boys are given a grand reception with the many distinguished alumni on a remote island that at times resembles Alcatraz and Hogwarts School for Wizards. The boys are given expensive diving watches (an obvious product placement) and then dressed in tuxedos where they shake hands and shift uncomfortably in their cumberbunds...until the director inexplicably cranks out Creed onto the soundtrack ("Can You Take Me Higher" no less!) and then this huge door opens and out walk whatever waif models were hot in 2000. And they strut out as if on a runway, no sense of acting in any of their faces, and it's pure schlock...and I love it!

Rob Cohen went on to XXX and then tanked with Stealth, but this shows what people in Hollywood saw in the guy. The film is fun, never too heavy, and perfectly suited for a fall evening with your none-too-intellectual school friends OR consumed in 12 minute intervals on TNT. It's plotted swiftly and compellingly enough to justify its running time...another honor not bestowed on The Da Vinci Code. Basically, it's perfectly mindless, harmless fun, with a better than average cast who seem to revel in the camp of it all. Enjoy when you got nothing better to do.

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