Tangled (2001)

Director:

Jay Lowi

Writers (WGA):

Jeffrey Lieber (story) &
Michael Shapiro (story) ...

Release Date:

2 November 2001 (Portugal)

Genre:

Drama | Thriller

Tagline:

The best of friends make the worst of enemies.

Plot:

A young man is found bruised, beaten and stumbling down a secluded road. As the police try to piece together what happened...

Plot Keywords:

Male Full Frontal Nudity | Male Frontal Nudity | Told In Flashback | Surprise Ending

Cast

Rachael Leigh Cook	...	Jenny Kelley
Shawn Hatosy	...	David Klein
Jonathan Rhys Meyers	...	Alan Hammond (as Jonathan Rhys-Meyers)
Estella Warren	...	Elise Stevens
Lorraine Bracco	...	Det. Anne Andersle
Dwayne Hill	...	Det. Denny Nagle
Joyce Gordon	...	Kara
Jane Moffat	...	Librarian
Robert McKenna	...	Uncle Finch
Robert Graham Gray	...	Young Man

Also Known As:

Conspiracy of Weeds (USA) (working title)

MPAA:

Rated R for language, sexuality and violence.

Runtime:

100 min | UK:86 min

Country:

USA

Language:

English

Color:

Color

Aspect Ratio:

1.85 : 1

Certification:

Iceland:16 | Finland:K-15 | USA:R | Germany:16 | Indonesia:17/atas | Netherlands:12 | Portugal:M/16 | UK:15

Filming Locations:

Toronto, Ontario, Canada

Company:

Ben's Sister Productions

Trivia:

Rachael Leigh Cook's character, Jenny, smokes in the film. Cook is a non-smoker in real life and smoked prop cigarettes for the film.

Goofs:

Audio/visual unsynchronized: Jenny is using an Olympus SLR camera when doing Alan's portrait session. The shutter sound is not that of an Olympus which has a distinctive "ker-klug" sound. Though is is still a focal plane shutter and not a leaf shutter, it most assuredly is not the recorded sound of an Olympus focal plane shutter.

Quotes:

David: Oh my gosh, I have to tell you this story. Freshman year, Alan hooked up with two girls at a bar - Renee and Jackie. So he's going back and forth between the two of them all semester... until they found out about each other.
Jenny: So, what? He got dumped?
David: No! They had a threesome! I come home that night to find this huge mass of flesh and-
Jenny: DAVID! Why would you tell me that?

Movie Connections:

References Teen Wolf (1985)

Passes the time

A good cast does their best with an average script that, although predictable, is still watchable until the very end. Shawn Hatosy (The Faculty) plays David who fancies the pants off his close friend Jenny (Rachael Leigh Cook – She's all that), although the reality hits him that she only regards him as a friend and nothing more (an agonising situation which may ring true with many viewers – including myself!!), things change dramatically when David's ultra confident and slightly mysterious old friend Alan (Jonathan Rhys-Meyers – Velvet Goldmine) appears on the scene and sweeps Jenny off her feet, leaving David feeling very jealous indeed as well as concerned as he knows all too well of Alan's dodgy past. The story is told from David's point of view and includes many flashbacks as the story unfolds which do not always work. Plus, the final `twist' is absolutely no surprise at all.