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Crime + Punishment in Suburbia

  • 20002000
  • RR
  • 1h 40m
IMDb RATING
5.8/10
3.4K
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POPULARITY
26,249
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Crime + Punishment in Suburbia (2000)
A darkly romantic story of murder and redemption, set against an eerily familiar American landscape.
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A darkly romantic story of murder and redemption, set against an eerily familiar American landscape.A darkly romantic story of murder and redemption, set against an eerily familiar American landscape.A darkly romantic story of murder and redemption, set against an eerily familiar American landscape.
IMDb RATING
5.8/10
3.4K
YOUR RATING
POPULARITY
26,249
104
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    • Director
      • Rob Schmidt
    • Writer
      • Larry Gross
    • Stars
      • Monica Keena
      • Ellen Barkin
      • Michael Ironside
    Top credits
    • Director
      • Rob Schmidt
    • Writer
      • Larry Gross
    • Stars
      • Monica Keena
      • Ellen Barkin
      • Michael Ironside
  • See production, box office & company info
    • 54User reviews
    • 27Critic reviews
    • 32Metascore
    • Awards
      • 3 nominations

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    Vincent Kartheiser and Monica Keena in Crime + Punishment in Suburbia (2000)
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    Marshall R. Teague in Crime + Punishment in Suburbia (2000)
    James DeBello and Monica Keena in Crime + Punishment in Suburbia (2000)
    James DeBello and Jeffrey Wright in Crime + Punishment in Suburbia (2000)
    Matt Champagne in Crime + Punishment in Suburbia (2000)
    Monica Keena in Crime + Punishment in Suburbia (2000)
    James DeBello and Monica Keena in Crime + Punishment in Suburbia (2000)
    Monica Keena in Crime + Punishment in Suburbia (2000)

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    Monica Keena
    Monica Keena
    • Roseanne Skolnick
    Ellen Barkin
    Ellen Barkin
    • Maggie Skolnick
    Michael Ironside
    Michael Ironside
    • Fred Skolnick
    Vincent Kartheiser
    Vincent Kartheiser
    • Vincent
    James DeBello
    James DeBello
    • Jimmy
    Jeffrey Wright
    Jeffrey Wright
    • Chris
    Conchata Ferrell
    Conchata Ferrell
    • Bella
    Marshall R. Teague
    Marshall R. Teague
    • Coach
    • (as Marshall Teague)
    Nicki Aycox
    Nicki Aycox
    • Cecil
    Christian Payne
    • Dean
    Anthony Chow
    • Teacher
    • (as Anthony C. Chow)
    Bonnie Somerville
    Bonnie Somerville
    • Stuck Up Girl
    Lucinda Jenney
    Lucinda Jenney
    • Vincent's Mom
    Jim Boyce
    • Mr. Dwyer
    Matt Champagne
    Matt Champagne
    • Counselor Lord
    Blake Shields
    Blake Shields
    • Moznick
    • (as Blake C. Shields)
    Jim Swanson
    • Rat Fink Neighbor
    Tommy Perna
    Tommy Perna
    • Officer Lambert
    • Director
      • Rob Schmidt
    • Writer
      • Larry Gross
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    Storyline

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    • Trivia
      Loosely based on Fyodor Dostoevsky's Crime and Punishment.
    • Quotes

      Vincent: I used to think if I killed somebody I would want to go to the cemetery and apologize. That's not really what guilt is though. Guilt's a feeling you have towards people who are living. It's like everyday you're out there shaking hands, talking. But you, the guilty person, you know that it's all unreal. It's like guilt is this secret inside of you that destroys the fabric of everything, and then everything's unreal. You can't even have a life. But it's not necessary for it to destroy you. You just have to face it.

    • Connections
      Featured in At the Movies: Almost Famous/Crime + Punishment in Suburbia/Bait/Duets/Human Resources (2000)
    • Soundtracks
      Burn, Don't Freeze
      Written by Carrie Brownstein

      Performed by Sleater-Kinney

    User reviews54

    Review
    Top review
    a well-acted movie with heart and something very special
    Very watchable. A movie for the disaffected, in league with Splendor in the Grass, Rebel Without a Cause, Ghost World, and the many other high-school nostalgia movies about coming of age and not fitting into society. Yes, the view is from high school, but the issues are deep and mature. It is not brilliant writing but it works, without any too-slow sections. And the acting? Well, Ellen Barkin is in it (she should never have married the billionaire - she should have just kept on acting. Please tell her for me. - arjuna).

    For Crime and Punishment (Dostoyevsky) fans, this is indeed something special. It contains so many reflections of that original masterpiece: from the trivial ("suburbia" sounds like "siberia") to the intriguing: the nihilistic existentialist murder of the old woman next door as an intellectual experiment and the unavoidable subsequent guilt and exile from the city to nowheresville, the way that guilt marks you, the strong undercurrent of faith in God (yes, this movie shows faith in God in a realistic way!) and its liberating power, the isolation and bleakness of siberia/suburbia, and, perhaps the most Dostoyevsky-like of them all, dream sequences brilliant and absolutely engaging in their unexpected improvisations.
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    • Sep 3, 2008

    Details

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    • Release date
      • August 25, 2000 (Italy)
    • Country of origin
      • United States
    • Language
      • English
    • Also known as
      • Crime & Punishment in Suburbia
    • Filming locations
      • California State Polytechnic University, Pomona, California, USA
    • Production companies
      • G2 Films
      • Killer Films
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    Box office

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    • Gross US & Canada
      • $26,394
    • Opening weekend US & Canada
      • $9,893
      • Sep 17, 2000
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    Technical specs

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    • Runtime
      1 hour 40 minutes
    • Color
      • Color
    • Sound mix
      • Dolby Digital
    • Aspect ratio
      • 1.85 : 1

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