A senior at an ivy league college, who depends on scholarships and working on the side, gets accepted into the secret society The Skulls. He hopes it betters chances at Harvard but The Skulls is not what he thought and comes at a price.
A young college co-ed tries joining the elite, all-male, secret society, the Skulls, and in so doing, she uncovers some unscrupulous methods used by some of the members to get what they want.
Director:
J. Miles Dale
Stars:
Clare Kramer,
Bryce Johnson,
Barry Bostwick
Three young people on a road trip from Colorado to New Jersey talk to a trucker on their CB radio, then must escape when he turns out to be a psychotic killer.
A low-ranking thug is entrusted by his crime boss to dispose of a gun that killed corrupt cops, but things get out of control when the gun ends up in wrong hands.
Director:
Wayne Kramer
Stars:
Paul Walker,
Cameron Bright,
Chazz Palminteri
A DEA agent provides former Marine Tim Kearney with a way out of his prison sentence: impersonate Bobby Z, a recently deceased drug dealer, in a hostage switch with a crime lord.
Director:
John Herzfeld
Stars:
Paul Walker,
Laurence Fishburne,
Olivia Wilde
A group of archaeologists become trapped in the past when they go there to retrieve a friend. The group must survive in fourteenth century France before they can escape back to the twenty-first century.
Luke McNamara, a college senior from a working class background joins a secret elitist college fraternity organization called "The Skulls", in hope of gaining acceptance into Harvard Law School. At first seduced by the club's trapping of power and wealth, a series of disturbing incidents, such as his best friends suicide, leads Luke to investigate the true nature of the organization and the truth behind his friends supposed suicide. He starts realizing that his future and possibly his life is in danger.Written by
Kyle <Kyleshivers@aol.com>
The film is included on the film critic Roger Ebert's "Most Hated" list. See more »
Goofs
When Luke and Detective Sparrow are talking in the hall, an extra (white woman with blonde hair and blue shirt) walks by and up the stairs past them. Later, when they stop in a library and continue talking, the same extra walks past in the same direction. (She is clearly visible both times, it is not two different people). See more »
The DVD version includes deleted scenes showing: Luke working as a singing flower delivery boy; a longer bar scene; after the bar scene they stop off at the news office; what happens after they fall off the roof; judge Mandrake blackmailing Luke; judge Mandrake convincing Caleb to "confess". See more »
This movie should be included as a required course in film schools as how not to make movies -- in a year full of really bad movies, this one is skull and shoulders above everything else in bad acting, directing, and above all--laughably poor writing. Put this on a double bill Showgirls and watch the suicide rates soar. Joshua Jackson evidently needed a vehicle since he's a teen heart throb (which is mystifying in and of itself) and settled on this loser--he should get better management or resign himself to playing WB teen angst series well into his thirties. Poor William Peterson and Craig Nelson looked alternately amused and embarrassed at their association with this turkey--maybe they needed a few bucks quick and figured this wasn't terribly hard work; Nelson's "Coach" character was a paragon of depth and emotion compared with the hilariously one dimensional evil guy.
This one deserves a good thesaurus to come up with enough synonyms for dreadful, awful, horrible, wretched, ....
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This movie should be included as a required course in film schools as how not to make movies -- in a year full of really bad movies, this one is skull and shoulders above everything else in bad acting, directing, and above all--laughably poor writing. Put this on a double bill Showgirls and watch the suicide rates soar. Joshua Jackson evidently needed a vehicle since he's a teen heart throb (which is mystifying in and of itself) and settled on this loser--he should get better management or resign himself to playing WB teen angst series well into his thirties. Poor William Peterson and Craig Nelson looked alternately amused and embarrassed at their association with this turkey--maybe they needed a few bucks quick and figured this wasn't terribly hard work; Nelson's "Coach" character was a paragon of depth and emotion compared with the hilariously one dimensional evil guy.
This one deserves a good thesaurus to come up with enough synonyms for dreadful, awful, horrible, wretched, ....